The Linear Canvas

It is not surprising to me that Republicans would be interested in having a presidential candidate that is a real American hero capable of running the government and appealing to Americans so that they would vote for and defend him against all liberal attacks on his character. That’s why I don’t understand why they chose George Bush to be their candidate. I would’ve been very happy with John McCain as our president, a Republican and a “real” American hero. He might have been elected had it not been for George Bush’s 2000 campaign of dirty tricks. Not only did they steal the national election, but the incidents in South Carolina during the 2000 primaries were the dirtiest tricks of them all.

John McCain annoyed the Republican hierarchy when he ran for president in 2000, challenging their anointed candidate, George Bush. Most likely this is the reason why the Republicans decided not to have a primary this time. John McCain took his “straight talk express” through primary states, winning supporters and embarrassing King George, until he was sucker-punched by his own party’s election machine.

During the South Carolina Republican primary in 2000, rumors were spread by fellow Republican senators about John McCain’s mental health as a result of his imprisonment as a POW. McCain immediately quashed those rumors by voluntarily releasing his entire military record, which confirmed no indications of adverse physical or mental conditions.

In a further attempt to embarrass McCain, Bush’s campaign strategists, including Karl Rove, devised another plan to ruin the character of the senator in the minds of the voters. Voters all across South Carolina were called and asked, “Would you be more likely or less likely to vote for John McCain for president if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child”? A push poll like this is designed to plant an idea in the minds of those participating and its end result percentages are completely unimportant.

John McCain began campaigning all over South Carolina with his wife and their little adopted Bangladeshi daughter. The sight of the little dark skinned girl made the story planted earlier more believeable to some. John McCain lost South Carolina to Bush, which basically ended his bid for the White House.

Not only was the push poll against McCain dirty, it was also racist. Questioning whether or not McCain had fathered an illegitimate child was bad enough, but to say he had fathered a black child is asserting that it is somehow worse.

McCain was defeated by dirty politics, but being loyal to his party, he begrudgingly endorsed Bush. He has supported the Bush Administration in most of the war on terror and the conflict in Iraq, but little else.

This is the man that Republicans support for President in 2004. Maybe it was not George Bush who caused the South Carolina incident personally. I doubt if he has that much intelligence to think that one up by himself. But King George surrounds himself with scoundrels like Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld. I am sure that George doesn’t think that Prince Karl is just planting flowers in the rose garden, just lies in South Carolina.