John McCain: “I am not President Bush”… No, you’re worse.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

All the McMedia spinmeisters last night were reading from the McCain campaign spin room talking points trying to salvage the evening by claiming that McCain scored points with his line distancing himself from President Bush (oh, snap!):

"Sen. Obama, I am not President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago."

Actually, the point was scored a minute or so later by Barack Obama when he responded:

"So the fact of the matter is that if I occasionally have mistaken your policies for George Bush’s policies, it’s because on the core economic issues that matter to the American people, on tax policy, on energy policy, on spending priorities, you have been a vigorous supporter of President Bush."

And as everyone in America knows by now, John McCain has voted with George W. Bush more than 90% of the time.  This does not a "maverick" make.  The Obama campaign is already up with an ad from last night’s debate:

Think of it in terms of this analogy.  Americans decided that they liked the folksy-sounding guy they wanted to have a beer with in 2000, so they handed the keys to the car to the drunkard, and his drinking buddies climbed into the backseat of the car to go along for the ride. The drunkard immediately drove the car into a ditch, but instead of taking the keys away from him and letting someone more sober drive, his drinking buddies pushed the car back up onto the road and let the drunkard continue to drive as they climbed back into the backseat of the car to go along for the ride.  This insanity was repeated over and over again, with the drunkard’s drinking buddies always encouraging him to continue on after driving into yet another ditch and by enabling his reckless, irresponsible and dangerous behavior. The drunkard eventually drove the car over a steep cliff – and we are all now holding our breath on the way down in anticipation of what is going to happen next.

John McCain was a principle enabler of George W. Bush. He was the only one who could have stood up to him. It was John McCain who should have put "country first" in 2004 by challenging Bush for the nomination of his party.  He lacked the courage, convictions and principles to do so.  Instead, he put his personal political ambition ahead of principles and his country and heeled like an obedient dog, actively campaigning for and supporting the policies of the "drunkard" and enabling him to continue on with his reckless, irresponsible and dangerous behavior, which has now brought this country to the brink of potential disaster. This "enabler" shares the blame equally with the "drunkard" for his reckless conduct, as do all of the "drinking buddies" in the car.  It is time to throw all of Bush’s enablers out of Congress and government.

The good folks at SEIU Cope explain in this ad why John McCain may actually be worse than "W."