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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (82787)9/7/2008 4:02:46 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 541674
 
I don't believe that he would do that, at least not more than at the margins. I don't believe he's that kind of person. I would expect the decent McCain to show up after the election. I realize though, that's not a given.

Well, we'll just have to do our usual agree to disagree on the list prior to this item. I could put up more posts that I have time to whittle out and you could reply to more than you have time to cut back at, and neither of us would change a comma.

However, on this last point, I just don't see how you can possibly get there. I think that conclusion might have been a possible (it would still have been a place too far for me, given the campaign he's run) but I could see how a credible argument could be made.

But after the Palin choice, I really don't see how you get there.

If McCain is elected, he will owe it to the furthest right elements of the party, the ones energized by the Palin choice. They will have enormous leverage on all administrative decisions in ways I'm certain you can appreciate more than any of the rest of us on the thread. They will own the Supreme Court choices and will simply block any reasonable appointments; their alliance will empower the neo-con foreign policy elements in McCain's camp; and their voices will be heard with agency appointments, much like the anti-science views of many of Bush's appointees.

So I'm more than puzzled. I think baffled is more the right word, given your stated political preferences.
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