The View

I was watching "The View" today and the ladies brought up an article that appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post regarding John McCain and a woman lobbyist and their possibly unseemly connection. This is when Hasselback loses her Republican cool and calls the NY Times a tabloid rag. If Ro O'Donnell could not help this chick nobody can. In a way I can understand Hasselback's concern with the fact that the article really had no point nor actually sources that were justifiable, but for me what was inherent in the article was the questioning of McCain's self proclaimed impeachable ethics. The issue here is simple John McCain of the "Straight Talk Express" may not be so straight talk as he would have us believe. Personally I would never vote for McCain, but I have always had respect for him. He is an American Hero and has never been afraid of breaking party ties to do what is right. But, recently it seems to me that there is another side to the Republican front-runner. For me it all began when he spoke the commencement speech at Liberty University. Pandering to the wacko far-out Christian right that wants to turn America into some sort of bizzaro version of Sharia Law, was one of the forces that McCain was opposed to the radicals on both the left and the right. That was until he wanted to become president.

One of the things I have always respected about John McCain was his stance on torture. He was one of the only well known Republicans in Washington to stand up like any decent person that values human life should and state that torture is unacceptable any time any where. That seems to have changed now with the white house closer in his grasp. For me what the article comes down to his connection to a lobbyist and not that they may have had an extra marital affair but how that lobbyist may have using her familiarity with McCain may have shaped his policy. So, yes Mrs. Hasselbeck attacks the Times ethics and rightly so for printing out an erroneous article with no clear evidence or direction but not to question the ethics of McCain boggles my mind.