For the first official, real blog post of Raising Farrahzona (content wise anyway), I feel like I need to apologize. I’ve done a terrible disservice to the country and I need to right the wrong.

I, Farrah Whitworth-Rahn hereby apologize to my fellow citizens for voting for John McCain in 2004. Can you ever forgive me?

His latest attention whoring is proof this man should never be Commander in Chief, and I put him back in the position to run for it. Oh I know he’s a former POW and military war hero, and I’m sure someone’s going to issue a fatwa against me for saying this - but he just doesn’t understand the nature of the enemy we face in this day in age.

Senator McCain, a former prisoner of war in North Vietnam, knows torture firsthand and brings moral authority to the issue. Torture is wrong, he says. Anything that weakens international protections for detainees, “threatens US troops in this and future wars,” he said on Friday

How many of our troops captured in Iraq were treated according to the terms of the Geneva Convention? Were these soldiers? Or these? The monsters were fighting killed 3,000 civilians five years ago while the female prisoners in Abu Ghraib were Saddam’s responsibilty. “Torture” of Gitmo prisoners wasn’t an issue then. The current detainee polices of the US are not to the reason our soldiers are tortured and mutilated when they’re captured. Changing said policies now won’t stop it from happening either. Whackjob militant islamists could care less what are laws say - they want us dead. Telling them we’ll be nice to their brethren when captured isn’t going to stop that.

Failing to acknowledge makes me think McCain really doesn’t understand our enemy. I don’t want him in charge of protecting the homeland if he can’t understand those who wish to do it harm. War is not the same as it was forty years ago. The nature of the enemy and threat has changed since the Senator was a POW. If he was a POW today, he would be tortured, killed and his mutilated body put on display for the world to see. The Geneva Convention wouldn’t save him. Why doesn’t he get this?

I realize Senator McCain is running for President, and trying to appeal to the “moderates” of both parties. But he’d be wise to remember it’s not the moderates who vote in primaries. It’s the base. If he continues to demonstrate he’d prefer to attention whore and get his 15 minutes of fame on the nightly news, rather than actually protect the country, this member of the base will be voting for someone else.