Repartay

One thing most of you who know me well have heard me argue over the past few days is that John McCain’s “Maverick” persona should actually undermine, not bolster, his presidential credentials. The POTUS is without a doubt the most important foreign policy executive in the United States, and as the GOP is wont to argue, it is with foreign sources that the greatest threat to our nation lies. Is this really the power we wish to entrust to a maverick? Is the world’s most powerful and technologically advanced nuclear arsenal something to bestow upon a “lone dissenter?” Should we trust the guiding voice of national politics to someone who prides themselves on disingenuous, per se disagreement? Hypotheticals aside, should the nation trust a man who with his first decision of policy import selected a potential president whose foreign policy bona fides rest on geographical proximity and not on a learned understanding of the world?

Impulsive behavior does not qualify one for the country’s most important job. As Rovian as it might be, Barack Obama would do well to point this out. Gawker agrees.