John McCain, The Kamikaze Candidate

Senator John McCain is in Florida again attacking Senator Barack Obama’s statements about negotiating with “enemy” dictators and governments.   This time it is about having talks with the Castro family.  Does Senator McCain not want to get elected? 

I understand that in Florida there is a large Cuban population many of which do not like the Castro family (I am no fan of the Castro family myself) but he has again set himself up.  I ask you, what is the Senator Obama camp going to say?

1. Same old Washington.
2. Four more years of the failed Bush ideology.
3. We have been at this silence with the Cuban government for several decades and it hasn’t worked yet.  Senator McCain just wants to continue failed policies.
4. All of the above.

I personally think that Senator McCain is not good at campaigning at all.  Many of the things he says make sense, but his worst enemy seems to be himself.  It is as if he never gets past the word campaign to the word strategy. 

I am thoroughly amazed at his inability to move himself forward in this race while the Democrats are fully engaged in destroying each other.  He simply makes himself an easy target every time he is in the public eye.

Then he has gone to celebrate Cuban Independence Day.  I would say that he might have waited until about the time race relations began to come up again as he has just begun to overcome the stigma he had amongst African Americans as the face of opposition to celebrating Martin Luther King Day as a holiday.

If you have not yet heard of this issue, rest assured it will be coming as soon as all of the commotion in the Democratic Party subsides.  In 1983 Senator McCain voted against and spoke out against the Martin Luther King holiday.   The only reasoning he has given for this was being a young senator (not young in age however, he was almost 50 at the time), his state of Arizona didn’t have a large African American Population (I’m not touching that one), and he was fresh out of the military (are there few African Americans there also).   

As soon as race comes up, particularly up against Senator Obama, this will come up.  If you were paying attention on Martin Luther King Day this year, you may remember seeing Senator McCain trying to explain this to a group at what appeared to be some kind of rally only to get booed.  His only way to defend himself against the coming attacks from the Democrats I fit is in fact Senator Obama he ends up facing is to bring up that Wright person (if you are new to my blog I refuse to call him reverend as that is a show of respect I am not willing to afford this person), and that can only end with the whole he is a racist argument.

It seems to me that with all of the fighting amongst the democrats and the division building within their party he should have a pretty easy time.  The truth is nobody seems to be stopping him from setting himself up.  He is starting to look like a double agent that is trying to get a democrat in office.  Sort of a Kamikaze suicide bomber thrown at the Republican Party that will destroy the party and himself at the same time.

There must be someone in his campaign that can see this and stop him from making these grave errors in judgment?  I suppose with so many people jumping ship from his campaign staff, that person may not yet be in place, but he had better get that person there soon.