Just when you thought McCain/Feingold and voting with the Democrats on the filibuster rules change were enough reasons to want John McCain out of the Senate you stumble across yet another.

It has occurred to me that if I did not spend so much time reading about politics and politicians I probably wouldn't despise so many of them so thoroughly. It would probably add years to my life too. But I can't help myself. Its an addiction.

Today's fit of pique at the Arizona RINO comes courtesy of a Nick Gillespie rant in Reason Magazine. (In the May 2005 issue - not yet online.)

If Republlicans ever wonder why libertarians are suspicious of them, they need look no further than the U.S. Senate. For all their yammering about being the party of limited government, individual responsibility, and traditional American lilberty, the Republicans there sure have a funny way of showing it.

Someday someone is going to have to explain this man's apparent hatred of free speech. It always seems that when there is something afoot in congress that could result in limiting speech under some pretext, McCain is involved. Is it some unresolved anger that while he was a POW there were hippies back home protesting the war under the protection of the First Amendment?

“McNasty” - as he was known in his fighter pilot days - dubbed his old presidential campaign bus the “Straight Talk Express” and was known to tell off-color jokes to an adoring press corps. But he told Hardball's Chris Mathews that the salty language and sociopathic behavior of HBO's massively popular The Sopranos trouble him and hence are worthy of Senate hearings. “What I really wish is that the people who make these programs would show some restraint,” grumbled McCain, who also confessed “I love The Sopranos.”

I have a favor to ask of the good people of Arizona. Vote for Someone else. Anyone Else.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 02:46 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment