GOLDWATER MUST BE TURNING OVER IN HIS GRAVE!

SENATOR GOLDWATER THE MAN WHOSE SENATE SEAT WAS TAKEN AFTER GOLDWATER RETIRED, JOHN SIDNEY McCAIN,III WOULD BE ASHAMED OF THE POLITICAL POSTURING OF MC CAIN. A MAN WHO ASPIRES TO GAIN THE VOTES OF LOYAL REPUBLICANS AND APPARENTLY SOME DEMOCRATS WHEN HE RUNS FOR PRESIDENT HAS TURNED ON HIS PRESIDENT IN A LEGISLATIVE MATTER THAT THIS BLOGGER FEELS IS TANTAMOUNT TO BETRAYAL.
SENATOR McCAIN HAS COME OUT STRONGLY AGAINST THE SECURITY LEGISLATION PROPOSED BY BUSH WHICH WOULD DEFINE THE PARAMETERS OF SPYING AND MANNER HOW WE TREAT TERRORIST PRISONERS TO OBTAIN INFORMATION THAT COULD SAVE AMERICAN LIVES.THE ONLY LOGICAL REASON FOR THIS PUBLIC DISPLAY OF GIVING AID AND COMFORT TO THE LEFT WING DEMOCRATS IS THAT McCAIN AND HIS HANDLER MUST FEEL THIS WILL HELP HIS RUN FOR THE OVAL OFFICE. IT CERTAINLY ISN'T TO HELP TH PRESIDENT DFEAT TERRORISM. THEN AGAIN McCAIN IS NOTED FOR GOING AGAINST THE GRAIN.
WHILE A "GUEST OF THE HANOI HILTON AS A PRISONER OF WAR HE ADMITTEDLY GAVE CLASSIFIED INFORMATION TO HIS CAPTURES TO GET BETTER MEDICAL ATTENTION, A CLEAR VIOLATION OF THE NAVAL AND MILITARY CODE OF CONDUCT. HE LATER APPEARED ON THE NORTH VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST TELEVISION AND ADMITTED HE HAD BOMB CIVILIAN TARGETS IN NORTH VIETNAM. HE ALSO PRAISED HIS MEDICAL TREATMENT.
FELLOW PRISONERS GEORGE THOMAS COKER, JAMES STOCKDALE AND WILLIAM LAWRENCE, ALL NAVAL AVIATORS WERE NOT AS COOPERATIVE, AND BECAME KNOWN AS LEADERS OF THE POW RESISTANCE. FOR THEIR ACTIONS AGAINST THEIR CAPTURE THEY SPENT 2 YEARS IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT AND WERE SUBJECT TO TORTURE CONTINUOUSLY. BUT THEN THEIR FATHER WAS NOT A NAVAL ADMIRAL. FOR THEIR FAILED ESCAPE ATTEMPTS AND RESISTANCE ALL THREE WERE AWARDED THE NAY HIGHEST HONOR, THE NAVAL CROSS. McCAIN WAS AWARDED NO SUCH HONOR.HAVING NEVER SPENT ANY TIME IN A POW PRISON I PROBABLY HAVE NO RIGHT TO CRITICIZE WHAT HE DID, BUT SINCE HE IS PUTTING HIMSELF IN THE PRESIDENTIAL SPOTLIGHT I BELIEVE THESE STATEMENTS ABOUT HIM ARE APPROPRIATE.
THERE IS ALSO THE MATTER OF HIS AND FOUR OTHER CONGRESSMAN BEING INVESTIGATED AS THE "KEATING FIVE"IN THE MID 1980'S FOR RECEIVING LARGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY AND PERKS FROM RACKETEER CHARLES KEATING. NOT ONLY DID KEATING CONTRIBUTE 112 THOUSAND DOLLARS TO McCAINS CAMPIGN FUND. THE SENATORS WIFE AND FATHER, A MULTIMILLIONAIRE BREWERY DISTRIBUTOR ,WERE INVOLVE IN A LARGE REAL ESTATE DEAL IN PHOENIX. TO TOP IT ALL OFF SENATOR McCAIN SENT A BIRTHDAY CARD WITH HIS REGRETS TO "JOE BANANAS", THE NEW YORK MOB BOSS, WHO MOVED TO ARIZONA, FOR MISSING JOES BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION.
I THINK THE PUBLIC SHOULD TAKE WHAT McCAIN SAYS WITH A DEGREE OF SCEPTICISM. HE IS NO ONE TO VOTE FOR IN 2008!