This contest was easier for John since he did not have Karl Rove forces out to smear him.

McCain Wins in S. Carolina, Avenges 2000 Drubbing

“McCain (Ariz.) opened his victory speech in Charleston by alluding to that loss. “It took us a while, but what’s eight years among friends?” he said, a big smile crossing his face.”

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“McCain’s victory in South Carolina was especially sweet after his experience in 2000, when he was soundly defeated by then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush after a nasty contest marred by negative campaigning and scurrilous underground attacks aimed at the senator.”

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Nice way of saying Bush and his campaign crew made up the most disgusting and outrageous lies, spread and repeated them with happy abandon, and no one seemed to want to silence their libel. An attack that not only smeared McCain, but smeared his wife and his innocent children. An attack that has never been apologized for. An attack that has left in it’s wake some people who believe the lies to this day!

Avenge? Not hardly. McCain may feel no pain - what’s eight years between friends? - but that low-life campaigning that came to characterize all things Bush, still offends a good hunk of the nation. Now McCain, and too many others victimized by Bush and his pack of liars, seems willing to forgive and forget. That should tell us all, this man McCain has no wish to clean the slate and get our country back on track.

Funny huh? When a victim refuses to protest the harm that he and his loved ones have been subjected too, he becomes as bad as the person who brought that harm. Maybe the pain has gone away for him. I wonder if there are scars below the surface on the psyches of his wife and children.

McCain’s willingness to pretend darlin’ dubya had nothin’ to do with it, which he’s been doing for several years now, says loud and clear - if he becomes president we’ll never see the criminals in our White House brought to an accounting. But then we wouldn’t anyway, since McCain seems to have suffered a brain hiccup and thinks Bushes GWOT is moving along just peachy keen.

Maybe it doesn’t matter anyway. Maybe Giuliani’s strange strategy will work, and after having lost all the primaries he will go on to win the party nomination at the GOP Convention.

Payback time?

Speaking of the GOP Convention, since most of the repub candidates have focused their fondness on Reagan, and since Reagan will be unable to attend. What ever will they do regarding Bush? How does one hold up the so-called party of the people as a shining beacon to the nation when the guy on the Lighthouse keeps turning off the light?

Maybe they’ll call in that “great orator” Rove. You know - the historian?

[Isn’t it strange how sometimes when you lance a boil it drains, but it still doesn’t go away?]

Did you get a chance to catch him on c-span the other day? Rove chastised the republican presidential wanabees, telling them they should stop bickering and focus on the real message of the party. I guess that means stop bickering and get some real attack and slash going. Oh, and remember lie, lie and LIE some more.

Anyhow, congratulations John. I guess that other sterling GOP quality, not being able to remember anything for more than a year or two has finally paid off.