Sen. John McCain (Republican-AZ), in his quest for his party's presidential nomination in 2008, has sold his soul to the devil. He's put his face front and center on TV ads backing Proposition 107, the Arizona ballot initiative that would not only amend the state constitution to bar same-sex marriage of all kinds permanently, but also prohibit cities, towns, and universities from providing benefits to unmarried domestic partners.
Never mind that McCain has previously said he was ok with domestic partnerships. He's running for president now and apparently feels he has to cow-tow to the Republican Party's fascist wing.
I tell you, this past month has really opened my eyes to the (now former) "maverick" Senator from Arizona. First he capitulated to the White House on the issue of torture (never mind that he himself was a prisoner of war for five years), he's been silent on the incompetence of the Bush administration in Iraq, yet he stepped right up to the microphone to criticize his fellow Senator (and fellow Vietnam veteran) John Kerry over a bad botched joke. And now he's plastering his mug on the TV in effort to write discrimination into his state's constitution.
The sounds you hear are Barry Goldwater; 2,825 fallen soldiers; and United 93 angel Mark Bingham rolling over in their graves.
