ACE PUTS INTO WORDS

what many of us are thinking about John McCain.

I can't get over the impression that John McCain is the asshat regular Navy ships captain portrayed by James Cagney in the movie classic "Mr. Roberts" who thinks of himself as God and believes the crew needs to shut up and fall in line behind whatever the captain demands to advance his career.  That's how McCain treats conservative voters, and that's why conservatives can't reconcile themselves to John McCain.  Watch this:




The hat for McCain, of course, is the Presidency.  The main difference here is the class and power difference -- McCain was born to Navy privilege and his arrogance comes from his status granting immunity from responsibility in the cruel pecking order of military school, and from his "Do you know who I am?" attitude toward Navy subordinates who survived or were sent to the brig at McCain's whim.

Think of this as the Conservative response to John McCain:

 
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Greg Ransom has a degree in Political Science and an advanced degree in Philosophy, with a specialty in the philosophy of science with a special focus on the science of economics. Ransom is well know among scholars writing on the ideas of Friedrich Hayek. Ransom studied with philosophers of science Alex Rosenberg and Larry Wright.