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John
McCain, Grown-Up
Turning
the table.
May 25, 2001 8:50 a.m.
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grown-up to send out a statement castigating your own political
party on one of its most difficult recent days. It's
grown-up to so crave media attention that you can't suffer in silence
another Senate "maverick" dominating one full news cycle. It's grown-up
to hope that a president of your own party fails. It's grown-up to
hold him in contempt, laugh at him on political chat shows, and never,
ever give up your smoldering resentment of him. It's grown-up to think
every bad thing in the republic somehow emanates from "K Street."
It's grown-up to leverage your paranoid fantasies into baldly unconstitutional
campaign-finance legislation. It's grown-up to take the agenda of
the New York Times, cosponsor it with some Democrat or other,
and pretend you are an original thinker and courageous political pioneer.
It's grown-up, in short, to be John McCain. |
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