has a significant capacity for dishonesty in the service of his ambition for power. That's the new thing I've learned about the Arizona senator this campaign season. The most significant McCain dishonest is not his willful mischaracterization of Romney's record on the Iraq war. Rather, it's McCain's dishonesty about his hostility to Supreme Court justices who believe in following the words of that document, rather than their own policy preferences. This dishonesty is now well-documented from multiple sources who tell identical accounts of McCain's true opinions of Justice Alito.
One thing few pundits have noticed is to what extent McCain's own temperament is ill fitting with a judicial temperament which respects the original meaning of the Constitution. McCain is an incredibly willful person with a contempt for views contrary to his own preferences, preferences which often align closely with his own interests. He's not a man very respectful of barriers between him and what he thinks he should have. Even the barrier of common public civility is often violated by McCain. One thing we have no reason to believe he'll have that much respect for if it proves a barrier to his own preferences is the Constitution. He's already show great contempt for the Constitution with his repeated attacks on the 1st Amendment of the Constitution -- attacks which the Supreme Court itself have turned back even within the last year.
One thing few pundits have noticed is to what extent McCain's own temperament is ill fitting with a judicial temperament which respects the original meaning of the Constitution. McCain is an incredibly willful person with a contempt for views contrary to his own preferences, preferences which often align closely with his own interests. He's not a man very respectful of barriers between him and what he thinks he should have. Even the barrier of common public civility is often violated by McCain. One thing we have no reason to believe he'll have that much respect for if it proves a barrier to his own preferences is the Constitution. He's already show great contempt for the Constitution with his repeated attacks on the 1st Amendment of the Constitution -- attacks which the Supreme Court itself have turned back even within the last year.
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