Republican Lies, McCain Edition
Even when they try to tell the truth they can't help lying. Case in point today, the ol' Maverick, for some reason granted a space on national TV to maunder on about global warming, which he claims to believe in:
"Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) says he has no idea why his GOP colleagues deny basic climate science...
(Jake) Tapper... asks McCain why, with a few exceptions, the Republican party, “the president, the governor of Florida, et cetera, act as if it’s not real, even though the overwhelming scientific consensus is that it’s real and it’s man made?”
“I don’t know because I can’t divine their motives,” McCain said."
He doesn't know their motives.
Well, he knows their motives perfectly well, as does any other rational person: They are corrupt criminals who have taken bribes to lie about climate change. Can't be admitting that, though
Comments
You have a solid three-digit IQ.
Have you ever considered creating a Petroleum V. Nasby-type character?
#1. Much of the right is religious and truly believe man can't destroy what god created. Although that never seems to stand up too welll when a religious man, in duty to his country, drops bombs on people from 20,000 feet above; when a religious man kills his wife to free himself up for his girlfriend; when a religious man, in duty to his country again, shoots and destroys another human being.
The thing about religion and politics is ignoring contradictions are a permanent way of life.
Then, #2 pure and simple partisanship and the money that comes along with it. no need to expound upon that at all.
Frank, I had forgotten all about Petroleum V. Nasby; you reminded me of him. I have to say that, at the present time, I'm finding the behavior of the Republican party and their base to be beyond laughing at. Maybe soon I will recover my balance.
And Bob, I'm afraid that my answer is that right wing Evangelical "Christians" are a bunch of lying scum who don't give a damn about their supposed beliefs, but only care about themselves and whatever they can get their hands on, regardless of the cost to anyone else. Sorry if that seems too harsh, but it's what I have seen for decades now, and it would take a massive amount of evidence to change my mind at this point.
Logically, if you really gave a crap about what Jesus had to say you wouldn't be Right-wing, you'd be Left-wing.
Jesus was for the poor and the marginalised. These are the people the Right most disdain.
They don't go to church to be closer to Jesus, they go to feel part of a tribe, and get confirmation via uneducated conversation of all the crap they already believe, with people whose powers of personal reflection are similarly nil.
They TALK religion when they discuss politics because that is the language they think they understand.... but it's all rote. There is no moral thinking going on there.
Like the lady who defended voting for Trump by saying "God can use anyone"...
ANYONE.
Just not Hillary. Apparently. Somehow. Might be GOD and all powerful but using her was just too difficult for the creator of the whole universe including Hillary.
In any case their day as a powerful minority in American life is rapidly coming to an end. The number of people who are completely indifferent to religion, as a percentage, is rapidly rising.
Anyway if McCain was struck with a moment of well-directed ego he could go down in history in a positive sense if did the equivalent of Eisenhower's military-industrial complex speech. The future-threating fossil fuel industry complex.
It's even in the national interest (apart from saving the nation's citizens) because the rest of the world will develop that economy and that industry and own that technological and commercial future and America will not.
I wonder just how long it will be before some major candidate declares something other than Christianity or Judaism? Guessing it will not be a Muslim mayor of a major city. Christianity is a bit of a must-have for president, governor, & cetera. How about somebody saying, "I have never been religious, nor do I see any reason to be?"
Try late twenty-second century.