Markos Moulitsas: Don’t listen to McCain

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http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/markos-moulitas/157849-dont-listen-to-mccain

Don’t listen to McCain
By Markos Moulitsas - 04/26/11 06:34 PM ET


Of all the inexplicable Beltway media fetishes, none is more bizarre than the undying love affair with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

So there he was, yet again, on a Sunday morning talk show, pretending to be relevant in a world that has long since passed him by.

And how could any right-thinking (in the most nonpartisan sense) person take him seriously? The topic this Sunday, on CNN’s “State of the Union” program, was Libya, and specifically, how imperative it was for the U.S. to more forcefully engage in yet another expensive war. “If we have a stalemate, I think it’s very possible al Qaeda may take advantage,” he said. He’d just returned from Libya, where he met with the rebel leadership and decided, after a few hours, that they were true and pure and wanted nothing more than a Western-style democracy.

Trust his instincts! Remember, this is the same guy who claimed — by putting her on his presidential ticket — that Sarah Palin was qualified to be president.

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Fact is, his 2009 visit to Libya was a gimmick, and his soiree there last week was as well. His entire shtick is nothing but gimmick after gimmick, devoid of any serious thought or expression of fundamental values. He’s irrelevant in his own party, a dinosaur in the era of Tea Party Republicans.

The out-of-touch Beltway media just never got the memo.