Dan Frisa
Sunday, June 3, 2001

Why in the world would McCain take such an unseemly step?

The answer can be found in the headlines and buzz created by consorting with the political enemy.

After all, McCain is the darling of the left-wing media and he craves their constant attention and adulation. His deal with the devil to keep this status is to continually stick it to the Republican Party.

He did it last year throughout the presidential primaries, gleefully trashing the party and its eventual nominee, and current president, George W. Bush.

He was also Missing In Action during the attempted coup by Gore and the media in Florida for 36 days following the election. Even the deliberate disenfranchisement of thousands of active-duty servicemen, whose absentee ballots were improperly ignored, was of no concern to the former P.O.W.

And he's continued the mischief from the very beginning of the new administration, first by insisting on priority consideration of his McCain-FINDgold lunacy, which would place Republicans at a distinct disadvantage by handing over virtual supremacy to the Left through a scheme of supposed campaign finance "reform" that would allow unions to continue subverting workers' rights by forcibly seizing a portion of their paychecks without their consent while at the same time leaving the GOP without a fair opportunity to counter increased media influence over elections.

Then McCain entered an alliance with that stalwart of virtue and paragon of all that is good, Senator Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., on some sort of Hillary-styled healthcare reform.

Last week, probably jealous of the coverage and media devotion paid to Senator James Jeffords, ?-Vt., upon his single-handed coup and transfer of power to the Democrats in the Senate, McCain issued a ridiculous statement laying blame for the flip-flop of the little sap from Vermont on Republican leaders.

To cap it all off, he's spending the weekend with Daschle, who himself has spent the past five months opposing every single Bush program and proposal, not by putting forth alternatives but by employing outright lies and hyperbole.

What does that say about McCain? How can you open your home to someone bereft of even an ounce of character, someone who just participated in bribing a weak senator with 30 pieces of silver to take power away from your own party?

Last year when McCain first flirted with the idea of a presidential bid, stories arose questioning his mental stability as well as, in some quarters, his conduct while in captivity in Vietnam.

While those issues may or may not hold any validity, it is clear that John McCain is an egotistical maniac, who will pursue any course of action that he believes will earn him adulation from the Left.

Keep your children in the house and lock your doors; there is a wild McCainiac on the loose, one who is hell bent on the political destruction of his own supposed party. If you see him, take no action yourself. He is known to be armed with baloney and is considered dangerous to the truthful conduct of public affairs.

E-mail Dan: danfrisa@newsmax.com.

Read Dan's previous column: Not Just A Three Day Weekend.

Dan Frisa represented New York in the United States Congress and served four terms in the New York State Assembly.

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