The Straight Talk Express takes a Scenic Road to the Truth - is making its way around the internet.¹ The link above is Coulter’s piece on McCain, which I’m heartily in agreement with.

I don’t understand why people would kid themselves into believe he’s strong on national security when he sold information to the communists in order to get medical treatment when he was captured in Vietnam. The Vietnamese communists hail him a hero, and when he served on the Senate Select Committee for POW/MIA Affairs, they even greeted one another with hugs like old comrades.

What a strange way to greet people who ‘tortured’ you.

In addition, he gave away secrets that got pilots killed, but I guess that doesn’t mean much to veterans today. How odd.

John McCain is Bob Dole minus the charm, conservatism and youth. Like McCain, pollsters assured us that Dole was the most “electable” Republican. Unlike McCain, Dole didn’t lie all the time while claiming to engage in Straight Talk.

Of course, I might lie constantly too, if I were seeking the Republican presidential nomination after enthusiastically promoting amnesty for illegal aliens, Social Security credit for illegal aliens, criminal trials for terrorists, stem-cell research on human embryos, crackpot global warming legislation and free speech-crushing campaign-finance laws.

I might lie too, if I had opposed the Bush tax cuts, a marriage amendment to the Constitution, waterboarding terrorists and drilling in Alaska.

And I might lie if I had called the ads of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth “dishonest and dishonorable.”

With Kerry and McCain hungering to normalize relations with the communists of Vietnam, I don’t see much of a difference between someone who claims to be a republican but takes all the democrats’ talking points, and even teams up with them on issues like McCain/Feingold.

Are people just plain blind, or have we actually arrived to the point where one party’s position doesn’t differ at all from the other’s?

The only people who differ are the people who aren’t running in a political race; the politicians who are running seem to have George Soros in common, and sound eerily similar no matter what side of the ideological divide they claim to sit on.

George Soros wants government control of the markets and made the comment

“I’m looking for a significant shift of power and influence away from the US in particular and a shift in favour of the developing world, particularly China.”

In 2005, John McCain got a bundle of George Soros cash:

Founded on June 26, 2001, McCain’s Reform Institute for Campaign and Election Issues has long served as a nerve center for the so-called “campaign finance reform” movement – a movement which has done nothing to clean up campaign finance, but has done a great deal to empower federal judges and government bureaucrats to regulate political speech, in defiance of the Bill of Rights.

Now here’s the kicker. The list of donors published on the Reform Institute’s Web site reads like a veritable Who’s Who of radical, leftwing foundations, including the Tides Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Proteus Fund and George Soros’ Open Society Institute (hat tip, Winfield Myers).

Not surprisingly, in view of the above associations, Arianna Huffington serves on the Reform Institute’s Advisory Board. Huffington has long acted as a front for George Soros’ “campaign finance reform” efforts. In 2000, she organized the so-called Shadow Conventions which provided John McCain with a bully pulpit to stump for his now-infamous McCain-Feingold Act. George Soros shouldered about one third of the cost of the Shadow Conventions.

It’s no wonder the guy is holding all the liberal positions and seems to be a relative media darling in comparison to conservatives who actually act like conservatives. The New York Times endorses McCain and Hillary.

Malkin: “John McCain: Endorsed by the classified secrets-disclosing, troop-smearing, war-sabotaging, botched military reporting, abortion propaganda-perpetuating, unethical reporter-protecting, stock-plunging New York Times.”

John McCain is a traitor to the Republican cause, not to mention a traitor in general, due to the pilots who were shot down because of intel he gave the communists, and what he did to the POW/MIA families when he was on the Senate Select Committee for POW/MIA affairs. He is a RINO, but not just because his views are “moderate.” It’s because he trumpets party affiliation as republican while displaying a complete lack of loyalty to the causes and concerns of republicans.

“Maverick” is a rather benevolent term for this guy, IMO.

But –I think this is George Soros’ election, and he’s going to shove someone down our throats, no matter how difficult it is to take.

There seems to be no difference between the candidates now…McCain is a global warming freak, too–just like Al Gore.

1. Coulter, A. (January 23, 2008) Straight Talk Express Takes a Scenic Road to the Truth, WorldnetDaily[back]