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John McCain: POW or Pussycat? By Arnold Ahlert (bio)

Dear Senator McCain: the “satirical” cover of New York magazine presented a golden opportunity for you to set the tone of your entire campaign. Sadly–but predictably–you blew it. Here’s why. The cover, depicting Barack Obama in Muslim garb and his wife, Michele as a gun-toting radical was created and approved for publication by people who are unabashed liberals. Their intent was not to insult the Democratic candidate and his wife, both of whom they desire to see in the White House next January. Their intent was to ridicule people who want to see YOU in the White House, by inferring that most of them are nothing more than rumor-spreading fear-mongering, anti-Muslim racists. Liberals, like those who run the New Yorker, are not content to define who they are. They presume to define who everyone else is as well, and their definition of “other” is simple: anyone who disagrees with their worldview is a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal. This was a golden opportunity to rally those Americans who are sick and tired of being told who they are by people who haven’t got a clue. It would have been a grand moment for you to illuminate the haughty elitism that informs liberals, who consider themselves the arbiters of “tolerance” and “enlightened” thinking. So what did Mr. Straight Talk Express say? The cover was “tasteless” was “offensive.” Not good enough, Senator. Not if you want to win in November. I hate to give it to her, but Hillary Clinton said it best: if you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen. Start whacking people who find it “amusing” to belittle Americans who “cling” to our country’s traditions. They’re not voting for you under any circumstances. The notion that you have to be polite to everybody is a complete crock. Nice guys DO finish last, Senator. Especially when being nice means you won’t staunchly defend your own base for fear of being “labeled” by the very same people who just besmirched them–and you too, whether you realize it or not. There’s a ton of Americans who don’t buy slick and sophisticated, or arrogant and elitist masquerading as “change.” They’re yearning to see the man who survived five years of hell as a POW, not some “reach across the aisle” milquetoast who thinks taking it to the opposition is “unseemly.” I said it before and I’ll say it again, Senator McCain: man up.