Serious Real Reasons Not to Vote for John McCain

Reasons Not to Vote for John McCain for President in 2008

This is meant for all people who are still considering voting for John McCain:

Dear Potential McCain Voters,

John McCain is a serial adulterer. This is not in the distant past. The recent rumors have been about a lobbyist named Vicki. I mention this first because many Republicans and potential McCain voters didn’t like adultery when a Democrat was guilty. So, I figure this is a character issue that is really important to you.

He cheated on the mother of his children with Cindy. This will mean our First Lady will be a fornicator and a homewrecker.

He is verbally (at least) abusive to Cindy (he called her a "cunt" in front of reporters). He is ill-tempered and wrathful.

He covered up Cindy's drug use and lawbreaking. (Zero tolerance for drug infractions - ha!) Cindy by all rights should have done serious time in a federal prison. Strings were pulled. She did not pay the price that other citizens would have paid under the circumstances.

He is lying like a rug - indisputably - he's put quite a bit on the record in three decades, his lying is documented - all the while promoting his reputation as a "straight-talker." He has no integrity. This has alienated many of his past supporters. I just heard one of them say on TV that he isn’t the same man he was eight years ago.

What a hypocrite.

You might say, to counter my points, that John McCain is more "experienced" than his opponent. This always happens when we age. We become experienced. We don't all become wise. Some of us go senile. Unless some evidence points to the fact that he has used this experience on his path to wisdom, it doesn't mean anything. I don’t see any wisdom at all. He is, according to those who know, worse now than when he ran for president in 2000.

You might cite his POW experience. All this means is that he is stubborn and tough, maybe not even in a way that is good most of the time. From all credible accounts he started cheating on his poor crippled wife almost immediately on his return from Vietnam. So his POW experience didn't affect his character for the good in this regard.

If Clinton's adultery made a difference to you as to his fitness for the oval office, McCain can't be given a pass either. Like the phrase used against Clinton, “Character Counts!”

If you, voter, bought into the Kerry swift-boat lies and voted for the draft-dodging cowards, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, then military service isn't a valued factor in who you vote for.

There is one reason, a well documented reason, that John McCain shouldn’t be president. In fact, it should disqualify him. He is mentally volatile, unstable, and prone to narcissistic rages. This isn't good, my friends, he has not been an executive before. All his experience is legislative. He did not have the power to do anything without involving ninety-nine other senators buffering him. His decisions and actions are never unilateral as a senator. They would be as President. He doesn’t have the self control or wisdom for this responsibility. He has a long standing pattern of acting without thinking. I doubt this will change at his age. It may worsen.

There are an appalling number of his own party who say THEY ARE SCARED TO DEATH OF HIM HAVING THE NUCLEAR CODES. I have never heard this before about any candidate. AN ALARMING NUMBER OF THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW HIM BEST SAY HE IS UNFIT.

Think about this. He is most certainly a narcissistic personality, and not a well-socialized one, who knows how to compensate for his deficits. This means that his ego boundaries extend to everyone else. He doesn’t respect other people as separate individuals who have a right to their own ideas and feelings. He doesn't care about anybody but himself. If you hear him say anything different, he will be lying. His actions aren’t consistent with his words. When words and actions aren’t consistent, the actions will tell the truth.

Narcissists have a remarkable ability to ignore reality (is this a good thing in a President? What about the last eight years? Reality bites you in the ass sooner or later - always). They will NOT LISTEN TO THE IDEAS OF OTHERS. THEY THINK THEY KNOW EVERYTHING. They feel like they are EVERYTHING. What does he care if he dies and leaves the ignorant, ill-prepared and poorly educated Miss Congeniality to run the country? To him, when he dies, everything dies.

He isn't any Maverick. What does that mean anyway, and why is that a reason he will be a good president? He's a gambler, that's the only way he's a maverick. This is simply the word he uses to describe his inability to work and play well with others.

Come on, he isn't any hero for standing up to his party for the good of the people. He's defending his "honor" against those who disagree with him in MINOR WAYS and pissing off his colleagues with his abusive behavior. There are times to listen to other opinions. There might be better ones than John McCain’s. Maybe John McCain needs to say, "Whoops, my bad" and concede the point instead of calling people “assholes” when they disagree. John McCain can’t do this one simple thing that normal people do every day. Admit when he is wrong promptly and change course.

There is no excuse for uncivil behavior and verbal abuse. Narcissists see their own flaws in other people and claim the other’s virtues as their own. Watch how John McCain does this. John McCain’s reputation as a toxic raging maniac is well known and is undeniable. John McCain’s reputation isn’t good among those who have direct experience with him. Everybody knows someone like John McCain who is always calling people “assholes”. This person is the true “asshole”. He sees his own assholiness in everyone else.

As is characteristic of narcissism, John McCain has problems with shame. This is why he is so sensitive about his so-called "honor". Instead of saying, "You saw the flaws I was trying to hide from myself and I feel shamed." He calls you an “asshole” for insulting his "honor". Let me make this clear. He isn’t being unfairly maligned when he defends his “honor”. From what I’ve seen, the people he feels are attacking him are very fair to him. He’s awful. In my world honorable people don't verbally abuse others on a regular and habitual basis and call them assholes and cunts. The movie name he deserves is not Maverick, it's The Jerk.

What about the contempt that he shows toward Obama? Contempt is the emotion that people feel towards those who are morally beneath them. Obama has done nothing to earn McCain's contempt.

Shame is what people feel when they don't live up to their own moral standards. Contempt is what people feel when others don’t live up to their moral standard.

Narcissists will direct their contempt towards those who trigger their feelings of shame. These people are anyone who ventures to offend McCain’s “honor” by seeing his real flaws, or disagreeing with him, or not treating him with the respect he thinks he deserves, and those people like Obama that John McCain envies.

Narcissists will malign those who have the characteristics they wish for themselves. They will not attack a person’s real flaws. The narcissist will see his own flaws in the person that they envy. They will project their own shame as contempt towards the envied person. This characteristic quite is pronounced in McCain during his interactions with Obama. Obama is what McCain wishes he was - young, well-spoken, personable, even-tempered and popular. I think Palin is McCain’s attempt to claim youth and personability by identification. Makes sense. Makes sense in his twisted mind, I mean.

McCain's behavior is consistent with poorly socialized narcissism. Narcissists don't age well as a rule, which isn't reassuring given that he is 72 years old. This may explain why he is so different (not in a good way) than he was eight years ago.

I may try to compile a list of those who have personal accounts of McCain's behavior. There are several on the internet if anyone cares to look. Many do not trust him in the important executive role of president.


I'm surprised and disappointed at how far McCain has gone and how irresponsible he has been in his choice of Palin and his continued untrue (and insincere, if you ask me) promotion of the myth they are creating for her. The neocons see her as a charming "blank slate" (Reagan?) that they can exploit to their advantage. Palin, too, is a hypocrite and liar. One of the Ten Commandments is to not bear false witness. Not to lie. Jesus hated hypocrisy. He talked about the sin of hypocrisy far more than any other shortcoming. I think Jesus mentioned homosexuality once, briefly, after someone asked him a question. He did all out rants against the hypocrites without much prompting at all.


An incredible number of his former supporters have abandoned John McCain. They say that he isn’t the same man he was in 2000. He had a reputation as someone who would tell it straight, unlike other politicians. This character is gone. It was only a role he was playing. It never existed. Now his reputation is of a liar with awful judgment.

He has lost the support of a large number of conservative “intellectuals”. People who know how to read and write some. The Republican pundits and opinionators. John McCain must have given up trying to get votes from anyone with sense, because his campaign has been reduced to stirring up the prejudices of goof balls with old issues that were settled log ago during the primaries. His current audience is “low-information voters” so they don’t know that this is old news.

His health is in question. He is old and has had serious cancer. The actuary would say that there is between a one in three to one in four chance he will die during his first term and leave us with Palin, who is no Thomas Jefferson or Dan Quayle. Absolutely NO ONE with any sense, Republican or Democrat, thinks she is ready or has the right stuff to be the chief executive. They are scared of her. Many Republicans have abandoned him for the Sarah Palin reason alone. The only ones left who think she has what it takes are Palin and McCain and the biased bunch of extreme and clueless right wingers that she was picked to appeal to. McCain and Palin seem to be the only high profile Republicans left who think that Palin isn’t a complete and total train wreck of a candidate.

I read that McCain was fifth from the bottom of his class because he was so awful in math. He is on the record many times saying that he doesn’t understand the economy. Palin doesn’t seem to set much store by book larnin’ herself. So I doubt she gets the economy either. Are we sure this is a good idea at this time of financial instability? Isn’t it time we had a smart president. Smart isn’t a bad thing.

I tried to be brief so I have left out much of my supporting data and left in more inflammatory language than I ordinarily would to emphasize my points. For anyone who wants to follow up, Google John McCain temper, John McCain infidelity, John McCain narcissistic personality disorder, John McCain contempt, John McCain lies, John McCain fit for office.


I won’t lead you potential voters astray. Have an open mind and check out my points for yourself. If you still feel that McCain and Palin are your candidates. I’d like to hear your reasons.