Just Desserts in the Desert

By Miss Kubelik

We cats have never had much use for John McCain. But we've been giving him a bit of thought lately.

Specifically, this: Can you imagine how different our domestic political situation would be today if John McCain had truly been the maverick he claimed to be, and accepted John Kerry's delicate overtures to run with him in 2004 on a fusion ticket? Can you imagine if they'd won? Instead of Halliburton Man and Alfred E. Neuman for another four years, we could have experienced the dawn of a whole new era of bipartisanship.

But, back to reality — and look what's happened since. McCain staggered into a worthless Republican nomination in 2008. And then he proceeded to demonstrate that, over a near-decade of nurturing his Presidential ambitions, he had not devoted a millisecond of thought to what it actually meant to be President — by picking an utter incompetent to share the ticket with him.

He lost. Convincingly and humiliatingly.

And now? Now, McCain finds himself in his first seriously contested Senate race in we don't know how long, running against a corrupt, consumer-fraud-supporting, megalomaniac know-nothing. To whom, despite the polls we've seen, we cats think he could actually lose. (This would, PURR, put the seat in play for the Democrats. More on why we think that could happen in a later post.)

If he does lose his primary next month, for all his allegedly vaunted decades of public service, John McCain's legacy will be — oh, gosh, where do we start? 1) Keating. 2) Palin. 3) J.D. Hayworth. A far cry from what it could have been, had he listened to his fellow war hero John Kerry in 2004.

Should all this occur — a very big "if," we realize — most MSM talking heads would no doubt call it an American tragedy.

Of course, since we will never forgive him for foisting the famous quitter from Alaska on us, we cats think that John McCain deserves to go down in ignominious defeat. But it is a tragedy for the country that this tremendously inadequate posturer and lecturer brushed off John Kerry and helped guarantee the rank partisanship that rules today.