Two Ads

One that says nothing:

The ad, I believe, tries to do everything at once....It doesn’t say too much about John McCain but instead sounds like a generic wish list that any candidate could use. Who isn’t for economic growth and a reduced threat of nuclear terrorism?

There is a reason for this: the domestic policy objectives (to the degree that McCain genuinely aspires to them) are unattainable from a Democrat Congress that Lord Queeg would never cross in any case; and the foreign policy objectives - especially stabilizing the Middle East and reducing the threat of nuclear terrorism - cannot be achieved without the liberation of Iran and Syria, which Sailor isn't about to tout in the current political atmosphere - and, again, probably doesn't believe in anyway.

A more realistic ad would depict 2013 as a time of permanent, self-inflicted economic depression with America under withering siege abroad and at home from WMD-armed jihadists and in full retreat globally, with a triumphalist Shiite Iran, al Qaeda-ruled Pakistan, and the Sino-Russian Axis having supplanted the U.S. as the dominant powers on the planet. The particulars of that crystal ball aren't difficult to supply, since that's the direction in which the current hurricane-force political winds are blowing us - winds to which McCain is already bending.

No, this is the ad that says it all:

I didn't think any Republicans still had this much fire left within them. Pity the party couldn't nominate somebody who is not the avowed nemesis of all that the Kent County (Michigan) GOP still stands for.