Senator McCain Plummets In Polls
Senator John McCain is a true American hero. As a Vietnam veteran and five year POW during the Vietnam War Senator McCain should know something about the dynamics of warfare.
The following information is taken from Wikipedia. “Born in Coco Solo in the then American-controlled Panama Canal Zone, the son and grandson of United States Navy Admirals, McCain was educated at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia and the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He then served as a naval aviator, seeing combat in the Vietnam War, and first became a national celebrity after being held as a prisoner of war for five and a half years, from 1967–1973.
Upon his release and return, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Arizona’s 1st district in 1982 and then to the United States Senate in 1986. He is currently serving his fourth term.”
With such a strong background in warfare and politics Senator McCain should know something about running a politicial campaign. However, he seems to have forgotten in his quest to become the next American President that it is dangerous for one’s political health to be on the opposite side of an issue that has become so important to the American voting public.
McCain’s support of President “the decider” Bush’s new Iraq policy of giving the public more of what they don’t want is hurting McCain severely in his own quest to be the next Commander in Chief.
McClain strikes me as a politician whose time has come and gone. He has been marginalized by his many years in Washington, becoming well known but often disliked by members of his own party in the process. While correct, the Senator’s earlier assessment that American troop levels in Iraq were far too low for an occupying force were out of step with his parties play book.
His recent comments that the war has been and is badly mismanaged, as evidenced by his now outspoken criticism of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield, are also quite correct but has not endeared him to the party’s leadership.
McCain with his actions and words has managed to gain little favor with the Republican leadership and to compound matters is now out of step with what the American public views as prudent action in Iraq. Fully two thirds of Americans think that the “surge in Iraq” is yet another mistake.
McCain will pay the price politically for his “surge” views. I predict that his campaign to become President will be extremely frustrating for McCain and will lead to an early out.
The other candidates for the 2008 presidential prize should sit up and take note. Once public support for a war has reached the tipping point politicians who continue to support an overwhelmingly unpopular war face the prospect of an early retirement from politics.
