Author: Rory B. Bellows
In recent days there has been a spate of articles from esteemed members of the Mainstream Media bemoaning the fact that John McCain has gone negative and is taking the “low road”.
The fact of the matter is McCain has always been a nasty campaigner, but it was ignored because his campaigns have always been against other Republicans. The nation was first introduced to Senator McCain in the 2000 campaign, and to the media he was their new crush because he did not campaign as much of a Republican. He espoused class warfare rhetoric in opposing Bush’s tax plan. His so-called campaign finance reform was a proposal to gut the first amendment, but the media loves do gooder plans where individual rights are sacrificed to whatever common good big government advocates so that was okay too. He railed against social conservatives and the media hates nothing more than people who go to church and vote Republican so that was a-ok.
In this primary campaign McCain shamelessly stated that people on Wall Street should go to jail over the sub prime lending crisis. The media cheered this because they despise corporations. Well, they only despise the corporations that do not sign their paychecks. McCain drank the global warming kool-aide and advocated a cap and trade proposal that is nothing short of socialism and will redistribute our jobs and wealth to other nations. Again, more big government, more media accolades.
Now that Senator McCain is in a campaign against a Democrat he no longer has George W. Bush or Mitt Romney to kick around anymore so he has set his sights on Barack Obama. The media will have none of this. Their complaint is not that McCain has gone negative; they gave full support to all of his other attacks, but that he has gone negative against a Democrat.
