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Winning Isn’t Everything |
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I’ve got a lot of good reasons to hate John McCain, but this one is probably my top:
Nearly everywhere he goes in his grinding campaign for the presidency, Sen. John McCain repeats a familiar mantra: “I’d rather lose an election than lose a war.”
Though that article is from last April, John McCain does in fact repeat this line everywhere he goes, as he did in the video of a campaign rally I saw on the news recently.
While McCain thinks this line shows off his fortitude, leadership, and overall maverick style, to me it represents everything wrong with the Bush years. This line says McCain is willing to win at all costs. It says it’s my way or the highway. It’s more stupid cowboy shit.
I mean, really folks, don’t you wonder what McCain would be willing to sacrifice to “win” in Iraq? (We’re assuming winning is even really possible - the Iraq conflict is so vaguely defined I doubt we’d know what winning looks like if it hit us in the mouth.) Would McCain sacrifice our economy to “win” in Iraq? What about thousands more of our bravest? What about hundreds of thousands of Iraqis?
Is McCain’s pride so weak that he can’t take defeat? Is his vision for America so damn fragile that it rests on us winning absolutely every military conflict we enter? When McCain says this line, all I see is weakness - a scared little boy who has to prove that he’s tough enough every chance he can.
wow…you pretty much interprereted that 180 out of synch with reality. well done. really.
Your hatred of McCain misconstrues the real meaning behind the line. It’s about him sacrificing a chance at personal gain (winning an election), for something greater than self (winning a war) during a time when support for the war was an unpopular position to take, and could surely cost him precious votes.