McCain may be a meanspirited s.o.b., and he may be as evil as the rest of
\nthe lot. But at least he’s an opponent I can respect. I’d vote for
\nhim because I’d rather he was the alternative. I might even be
\nconvinced that he’s changed in the last four(+) years and that I
\nshould cross over to vote for him over a Democrat. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The New York Times’ editorial today (24May2004) is titled “The Greening The NYT is decided: John McCain is heir to the McCain may be a meanspirited s.o.b., and he may be as evil as the rest of the lot. But at least he’s an opponent I can respect. I’d vote for him because I’d rather he was the alternative. I might even be convinced that he’s changed in the last four(+) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nof John McCain<\/i>“.
\n[url<\/a> –
\nmirror<\/a>]
\nSome of the choice quotes:<\/p>\n
\nWhat’s important is that over the last few years, Mr. McCain has morphed
\ninto a different kind of Republican—one who’s true to the party’s most
\nbasic values, but with an appeal that transcends the current
\nred-state-blue-state national standoff… Once a reliable oil-and-gas man,
\nhe seemed genuinely shaken by evidence of the effects of global warming,
\nand has since teamed up… to fight for
\ngreater fuel efficiency, cleaner power plants and other environmentally
\nuseful objectives… Environmentalism was, of course, a Republican issue
\nfirst. Mr. McCain has simply rediscovered an old party value. The same
\nthing is true of his longstanding fiscal conservatism… Mr. McCain’s
\nvoice is more than a voice of bipartisan good sense. In time, it could
\nlead the Republican Party back to where it once was and where it ought to
\nbe now.”<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nRepublican Party. I can’t say that I’m disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"