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After the death of Senator Ted Kennedy, what started with Cynthia Tucker from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is now becoming a full fledged Washington meme, that John McCain, former Presidential candidate and spineless conformist, is being played up as “the new Ted Kennedy”, being the Washington Maverick who takes charge of everything. If he started acting a little more like his daughter and less like…every other schmuck in the senate with that dastardly little R next to their name, I’d believe it. Right now, I don’t.

I could restate it, but allow me to quote ThinkProgress with the connection between Kennedy and McCain.

Ted Kennedy said “Americans want the choice of enrolling in a health insurance program backed by the government for the public good”; McCain says we have to “abandon the public option.” Kennedy joined with McCain to push aggressively for comprehensive immigration reform in 2007, a bill that McCain “would not” vote for anymore. Kennedy is remembered as a passionate gay rights advocate; McCain thinks discrimination against gays in the military is “working well.” See the similarities?

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