McCain and the GOP Tomfoolery

I wrote recently about Senator McCain’s revisionist history. He blamed his vote for TARP on some supposed deception from former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernake.

Today comes news from McCain in an interview with TPM that Obama suspended his campaign too.

“[Bush] didn’t ask me to suspend my campaign,” said McCain. “I suspended my campaign — as did Senator Obama — to come back to Washington because the President had told me that we were in a world financial collapse. That’s why I did what I did. I always said that consistently.”

That’s a lie.

Sen. McCain out of his own accord, announced to the world that Washington is in need of his service and he needed to put “country first.” He promulgated to the media that he will suspend his campaign.

If memory serves me correctly, Obama never advertised that he would suspend his McCain, rather, he portrayed himself as a person who can do two things at once. I am no President Obama fan, but the truth is the truth. He kept a level head while McCain scattered all over the place.

According to Hank Paulson, Sen. McCain actually was the person who called President Bush to set up this meeting and grandstand. When it came for McCain to make declarations in the meeting on how he will resolve this “economic crisis,” he did not say a word. President Bush, VP Cheney, and Obama laughed at McCain, according to Paulson:

McCain demurred. “I’ll wait my turn,” he said. It was an incredible moment, in every sense. This was supposed to be McCain’s meeting—he’d called it, not the president, who had simply accommodated the Republican candidate’s wishes. Now it looked as if McCain had no plan at all—his idea had been to suspend his campaign and summon us all to this meeting. It was not a strategy, it was a political gambit, and the Democrats had matched it with one of their own.

So much for straight talk and leadership.

Apparently that is the kind of leadership the GOP establishment are now wagging their tails to endorse. Sen. McCain has now received the endorsements of Senator Scott Brown, Mitt Romney, and Gov. Bob McDonnell.

What’s puzzling is why is Mitt Romney endorsing McCain? I am no Mitt fan, but this was an asinine political move. Dan Riehl and Michelle Malkin articulated how dumb of a move this was for Mitt and the GOP.

The only logical reasoning for Romney’s endorsement is that he thinks this will win McCain’s endorsement in 2012. Not only is that foolish, but what makes him think a McCain endorsement is valuable?

Now there’s a Facebook fan page called “Mitt Romney Supporter for JD Hayworth.” They are not happy at all with Mitt. As the great conservative voices of Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin so well articulated yesterday, Mitt committed political suicide with this endorsement.

Are people in the GOP not “getting it” yet? What do the Tea Parties and anti-establishment sentiment sweeping across the country mean to the GOP? Complacency?

A GOP with McCain is more of the same, and not a change we can believe in.