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" Straight Lies
> By Thomas Sowell
> February 1, 2008
> We have been hearing for years that Senator John McCain gives
> "straight talk" and his bus has been endlessly referred to as the
> "straight talk express." But endless repetition does not make
> something true.
> The fact that McCain makes short, blunt statements does not make
> him a straight-talker.
> There are short, blunt lies -- and he told a big one on the eve of
> the Florida primary, when he claimed that Mitt Romney had advocated
> a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq.
> Even the Washington Post, which supports McCain, said that the
> Senator "has distorted the meaning" of what Governor Romney said,
> that Romney "has never proposed setting 'a date for withdrawal.'"
> During Mitt Romney's ABC News interview that Senator McCain
> twisted, Governor Romney was asked by the interviewer whether he
> agreed with President Bush's veto of Congressional legislation
> setting a timetable for withdrawal, and whether Romney as President
> would veto similar legislation.
> "Of course," was Romney's reply. There was no ambiguity.
> Confronted with his lie on Wednesday night's debate, McCain
> blustered and filibustered in a manner reminiscent of Captain Queeg
> in "The Caine Mutiny," when he was caught in a lie during a navy
> inquiry.
> When confronted with any of his misdeeds, Senator McCain tends to
> fall back on his record as a war hero in Vietnam.
> Let's talk sense. Benedict Arnold was a war hero but that did not
> exempt him from condemnation for his later betrayal.
> Being a war hero is not a lifetime get-out-of-jail-free card. And
> becoming President of the United States is not a matter of
> rewarding an individual for past services.
> The Presidency is a heavy responsibility for the future of the
> nation, including generations yet unborn. Character and integrity
> are major qualifications.
> The passing years and a friendly media have allowed Senator
> McCain's shortcomings in the character and integrity department to
> fade into the background.
> McCain was one of "the Keating five" -- Senators who used their
> influence to try to protect a failing savings & loan company, which
> also became the subject of a corruption investigation.
> During the 2000 primaries, the Associated Press reported Senator
> McCain's joking about people with Alzheimer's.
> This went beyond bad taste because (1) it was known at the time
> that Ronald Reagan was suffering from Alzheimer's and (2) the media
> to whom McCain was pandering hated Ronald Reagan.
> It is especially ironic now to see McCain wrapping himself in the
> mantle of President Reagan.
> With the momentum of his Florida primary win behind him, going into
> the "Super Tuesday" primaries, John McCain has now been restored to
> the position of front runner that the media gave him at the outset.
> Other Republicans are jumping on his bandwagon. This may have less
> to do with McCain's own qualities than with the prospect of getting
> Cabinet posts or Supreme Court appointments as rewards for their
> political support.
> It may all look like a done deal. But the McCain-Kennedy bill
> giving amnesty to illegal aliens looked like a done deal two years
> ago -- until the public realized the truth behind the spin and
> brought that sell-out to a screeching halt.
> Super Tuesday may be the voters' last chance to bring the so-called
> "straight talk express" to a screeching halt.
> It should be called the "sell-out express" because McCain has sold
> out not only with amnesty for illegal aliens but also sold out the
> First Amendment with the McCain-Feingold "campaign finance reform"
> bill that was supposed to take big money out of political
> campaigns, but blatantly has not.
> McCain also sold out on judicial nominations by making his own side
> deal with the Democrats, undercutting Republican attempts to stop
> Democrats from filibustering judicial nominees instead of voting
> them up or down.
> This is quite a record for someone running as a straight talker.
> --------
> Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution,
> Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His Web site is
> www.tsowell.com.
> COPYRIGHT 2008 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.
> --------------------
> Note -- The opinions expressed in this column are those of the
> author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, views, and/or
> philosophy of GOPUSA.



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