{"id":401,"date":"2008-09-19T12:47:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T17:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masonvotes.gmu.edu\/blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2008-09-26T13:02:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T18:02:08","slug":"why-mccain-must-lose-this-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/19\/why-mccain-must-lose-this-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Why McCain Must Lose This Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Lars Laing-Peterson<\/p>\n<p>1) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pMvohE_otJ4\" target=\"new\">He votes with the failed and failing policies of George W. Bush 90+% of the time<\/a>. (FactCheck.org has it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/askfactcheck\/is_it_true_john_mccain_voted_with.html\" target=\"new\">95%<\/a> of the time.) These policies will have a lasting detrimental affect on this country. And, more importantly, how can you be a Maverick when you vote with the Party Line 95% of the time?<\/p>\n<p>2) Karl Rove, one of the most revolting, horrid figures to slime their way into politics since the Nixon Era, thinks that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DNdtZGqZA2Y\" target=\"new\">McCain&#8217;s negative ads fail the 100% truth test<\/a>. Not exactly news &#8212; any of us who have followed this election since before the Republican Convention knew how false McCain&#8217;s and Palin&#8217;s statements have been &#8212; but still, when Karl Rove thinks you&#8217;ve gone too far&#8230; that&#8217;s frightening.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to have to live in a country run by a man who votes with Bush 95% of the time, that Karl Rove thinks is untrustworthy with the truth, and who attached Sarah Palin to his ticket to rile up the GOP voting base.<\/p>\n<p>McCain is not a Maverick by his own admission, he&#8217;s not good with facts or the truth, and his running mate is a frightening creature by her own admission: a pitbull with lipstick. Sounds like a Ralph Steadman illustration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lars Laing-Peterson 1) He votes with the failed and failing policies of George W. Bush 90+% of the time. (FactCheck.org has it at 95% of the time.) These policies will have a lasting detrimental affect on this country. And, more importantly, how can you be a Maverick when you vote with the Party Line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7],"tags":[65,14,262],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}