The Irony of It All

So, I'm sitting at home with the Mrs. and one of my three college-aged daughters, enjoying the return of one of our brood to the empty nest for what college kids crave most - free laundry service and a free meal.
As I and my youngest conversed over a game of Scrabble, her asking me pointed questions about the upcoming presidential election, and something hit me like a brick right between the eyes. I was dazed for a moment, never having been smacked by irony before. So I picked up the irony (my daughter had already whipped my butt twice in Scrabble, so I was ready to bow out gracefully) and I started looking at it carefully. It was really amazing; I mean the convoluted, multifaceted nature of it boggled the mind. Here we have the presumed Republican nominee, a twenty plus year veteran of the Senate; a man who has spent considerable time crafting his "maverick" image while totally pissing conservatives off, just to make sure he has enough face time. It's an easy trail to follow that every time the camera dimmed on the man, he was looking for the next opportunity to get his face out there at the expense of the core of his own party. And please, I know he was a POW, and I'm proud that he did at least one thing noble in his career. Of course, it was probably the result of his mediocre flying skills that almost got him booted out of Pensacola NAS until the admiral pulled some strings to graduate him; but I digress. That is another story for another time.
So McCain has been a shameless self-promoter who'll even slap the elephant on the butt for a photo op. This kind of ego serving led him to hitch his wagon to Russ Feingold's star. Russ Feingold, the Wisconsin Democratic Senator, who in his fifteen year Senate tenure has never ONCE voted against the party line on ANY issue. If ever there was a party hack who would mindlessly follow whatever his party's is - Feingold's your man. So John McCain pimps out the party line, and goes to the dark side in the much ballyhooed McCain / Feingold legislation, laughingly called Campaign Finance Reform. This little nation-altering jewel has allowed the flourishing of the influx of soft money into politics and creation of mega 503C organizations of which Move On.org is probably the biggest behemoth. Move On.org is financed by none other than the rich-beyond-belief George Soros, who, after a failed attempt to get the inventor of the internet, Al Gore elected, has created a hand crafted, " I am all things to all people" pretty boy from a junior Senator with almost no background, who, at the time of his metamorphesis, was only in the Senate 150 days.
One thing we have learned about the secretive heir-apparent to the Democratic nomination, is that he has ties to more than a few dubious anti-American characters in this charade he's playing. The most noteworthy of them is of course Frank Marshall Davis, the beloved "Frank" in Obama's book, Dreams From My Father. What Barry forgot to mention about Frank in his book was that while Frank was mentoring the young Obama in Honolulu, he was a card carrying communist in the American Communist party, which was known to get its money and its marching orders directly from Moscow. Frank was just the first in a long line of dubious anti-American types, so you can't tell me that he was not influenced by his youthful indoctrination into Marxism. Of course, Hussein won't talk about Frank Marshall Davis, but one can bet it helped shaped his political leanings quite a bit left of center. Who knows? Only Obama, but if McCarthy were alive, he'd have a field day with this guy!
So, John McCain is brutally tortured by the VC, and forced against his will to say humiliating things about his country. The playboy comes home a hero, and lands a windfall in the Washington "all eyes on me" club. In his search for an ego massage, he makes a deal with the devil in McCain / Feingold, which creates the Soros machine, which in turn molds the angelic Barack Obama, communist collaborator, who is now beating the ex-POW naval war hero by almost eight points in the polls so far.
If John were here, I'd tell him that his shortsidedness created this monster. McCain almost single-handedly created the phenomenon that is Barack Hussein Obama, who may very well sit in the Oval office. I'd tell him that, John, your narrow vision, shortsidedness, and search for personal fame may have single-handedly handed over the White House to the very same mindset that held you captive in Vietnam. I'd finish the conversation by telling him lack of vision like that is a type of stupidity; and we know from almost sixteen years personal experience that stupidity has no place in the Oval office.
I hope the irony of it all is not lost in the clutter of history. It may be our undoing.