CONSPIRACY ALERT

There is a conspiracy in our midsts, more serious than one can imagine.

John McCain is a powerless pawn of the Republican party. His election would be not a victory for himself, but rather the party.

backstory: John McCain is a maverick. He is an individual in the senate. He often votes his own mind, regardless of where his party goes. While he is a republican, he is himself.
He runs in the republican primary in 2000, and loses to George Bush. His career is not over, but it appears that he needs party support to do anything requiring republican votes outside the state of Arizona.

The conspiracy:
-A war is about to begin in Iraq. It hasn't started yet, the republicans are trying to conjure support. John McCain is the perfect man to champion the war. He, after all, is not only a military man, but he was a POW. Regardless of circumstances, that makes him a hero. Who better to be the mouth of support. It doesn't matter what he would have done, this is his place to be part of national attention again, not involving savings and or loans.
So Dick Cheney approaches him, black devil that he is, and a deal is struck.
McCain will have support in 08 (it would be improper to run against an incumbent), if the administration has support now.
I do not believe this check has been fully cashed. Sadly, if McCain is elected, I fear neo-Conservatism will not die. I have a rational fear for 4 more similar years.

Some may say, so what, it'll just be foreign policy. Foreign policy was the heart of neo-Conservatism. It is also the scariest. Uni-lateralism is the worst strategy one could use when going into the world and creating enemies. If you're going to do something like that, at least get like a France or Germany on your side instead of Bulgaria and Latvia. And is supporting a Georgian dictator who likes America really worth it if it may cause problems with Russia?

I'm starting to ramble, but you get the idea. This shit's real.

--Knuttel