Presidential Candidate and Arizona Senator, John McCain reportedly doesn’t like his v-neck sweaters (thought to make him a more warm and inviting candidate), because they look “gay”. I got your back on this one Johnny Mac, face it folks, McCain is right, the sweaters don’t look "fabulously" warm and inviting on him, but who am I to judge? I can’t pull off the v-neck with the white t-shirt underneath either. If I may Senator, suggest wearing a button-up shirt (maybe something in a checkered pattern) underneath or perhaps, shelving your sweaters all together since it is actually summer.
If you want to destroy my sweater
Instead of the appearance of sweaters, McCain should be focusing on appearance of his campaign's strength including the inner workings of his campaign after losing his two main campaign advisers: Terry Nelson (McCain’s Campaign Manager) and John Weaver (McCain’s long-time friend and senior adviser) and having less than $2-million (read: less than Texas Congressman, Ron Paul has) in his campaign chest. For crying out loud, McCain hasn't even spent any money on television ads yet! Indeed, many people might find it odd that a senator who reams against spending by the government has blown through $22 of $24 million of the campaign money raised in the first half of the year. A majority of this spending was spent on travel, consultants (who told him to wear the sweaters), rent for McCain Campaign offices in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina and paid-staffers (full disclosure: McCain did "tighten the belt" laying-off 80 of 120 paid staffers)
Pull this thread as I walk away
What Senator McCain is missing is the "maverick" attitude he had in the free-wheeling, "straight-talk-express" days of the 2000 election. After McCain cozied up to the "religious-right" he alienated his base in exchange for a weak support from the Party's base. There are so many moderate-Republicans who "don't have enough church in their life" and they are looking for a straight talking candidate who isn't in bed with the (RIP) Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson wing of the party. And to make matters worse, McCain visited Iraq (wearing a bullet-proof vest and accompanied by body guards) and returned saying that he felt just as safe as when walking the streets of Tuscon. Now, I have never been to Tuscon (but the brochures look nice) and I am quite positive you don't need body armor and a security detail to get about town.
You can't write if you can't relate (Yes, I know I am mixing my Beck and Weezer metaphors)
If Johnny Mac wants to get the Republican nomination, he needs to get on the same side of his party with Immigration and the Iraq War. Only then can he slap his turkey-neck and hang it with a pigeon-wing (err, gay sweater) to win his party's nomination.
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