John McCain doesn’t want to win

In the first moments of the second presidential debate held last night in Tennessee, I realized that John McCain did not have the will to win the Presidency. His answer to the first question asked of him was to promise that if elected, he would arrange for the federal government to buy up all the bad mortgages currently being held in American financial institutions and renegotiate them so that those whose mortgages are in default could remain in their homes. This promise from a Republican presidential candidate is proof that McCain is a true RINO (Republican in name only)

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Rather than explain that the cause of the current crisis, which the Democrats are blaming on “the failed policies of the Bush Administration” was actually engineered by those attempting to sneak Obama into the White House, McCain has offered to nationalize part of the real estate industry in efforts to pander to nervous voters. Anyone with a casual familiarity with the history of the mortgage meltdown knows that John McCain introduced a bill in 2005 that would have forced controls on Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, the Democrats’ official vote purchasing organs, thus avoiding the financial meltdown currently in progress. But McCain’s bill died in the chambers of the Democrat controlled Senate banking committee chaired by Senator Chris Dodd, the single largest recipient of largesse from both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac who gave Dodd over $160,000 in contributions. (By the way, Barack Obama is the second largest recipient of largesse from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with contributions over $120,000) Why isn’t McCain talking about this more forcefully? Why isn’t McCain talking about Barack Obama’s association with a whole slew of shady characters starting with his “mentor” for twenty years, the racist anti-American Rev. Jeremiah Wright? Why not bring to the fore Mr. Obama’s association with criminals, such as convicted felon Tony Rezko, who was a major Obama fundraiser that sold him property through a sweetheart deal? What about Obama’s ties to terrorist duo Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn in whose living room Obama launched his political career and Obama’s ties to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a group that stands accused of rampant electoral fraud. While Mr. Obama has been reluctant to actually present a firm platform and has peppered his campaign with platitudes designed to make voters believe that whatever they’re in favor if, Obama is, too. McCain has allowed Obama to set the tone of the campaign by forcing him into the position to defend the Bush presidency, when McCain was at odds with George Bush more often than not. John McCain can win this election. However, if he continues to his campaign on the same vein he will lose the election and the United States will be governed entirely by Democrats. If McCain persists in running his campaign using the rules of the Marquis of Queensbury, or as CBS Radio White House Correspondent Peter Maer has urged, “clean and decent”, then he will lose—badly. So does the question is: does John McCain have the will to win or doesn’t he? His performances during the past two debates would indicate the latter.