Up on its elbows amidst the slime that is its element, the Republican campaign beast vents its foul breath at that which it perceives to be a threat to its ability to carry on the rapidly unraveling Ponzi scheme it has run for most of the past thirty years. The focus of this furnace blast of vitriol is Barack Obama, a man with the temerity, or in the beast’s judgment, uppityness, to dare bring reason and a self-possessed demeanor to bear on problems where fear and panic once worked so splendidly on the beast’s behalf.
Leading the attack is John McCain the Republican nominee. At least that’s what it says on the organization chart. As the titular head of the beast, he has the responsibility of leading the charge, one would think, using his own ideas and guided by his own morality and sense of propriety. None of this is true.
The beast’s anonymous nether components have McCain in thrall, he having struck a bargain on the understanding that his ambition would gladly accede to any indignity on the condition that it be granted a noble title albeit one bereft of honor and integrity, and without power or purpose, requiring neither courage nor conviction. This is the empty reward of ignoble efforts.
He shouts slanders of his opponent to carefully screened crowds of ignorant supporters, articulating them with all the indignation he can muster, but gives the lie to his conviction when in the presence of his opponent he meekly contains those charges. He sends out his wife and the ignorant wench selected fill out his figurehead administration to mount vile assaults on his opponent’s character, while in the presence of his opponent he cannot call up the courage to articulate those charges.
He hasn’t the courage to state his charges in his opponent’s presence, knowing full well that he cannot stand the refutation of those falsehoods. He is without the courage required to stand down those foul cowards that make up the beast because his own morality and conviction are so insignificant as to be virtually nonexistent. All of this calls into question the autobiographical claims of his courage that turn into bleats of hollow boastfulness when we consider his behavior.
John McCain is gutless.
