[curiosity]

Funny snide comments about the Huckster aside, the author hasn't a clue about good political strategy. By denouncing the ad, McCain draws attention to it. Hence the ad gets national attention instead of just local attention. His denunciation doesn't stop the ad from running, and so it still damages Obama. Finally, by distancing himself from the ad, McCain distances himself from whatever blowback might come from the ad and preserves his clean image.

McCain did exactly what he should have done. Denouncing the ad was very smart political strategy.

It's a pitty so many pubbies are to naive to see it.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

McCain did exactly what he should have done. Denouncing the ad was very smart political strategy. It's a pitty so many pubbies are to naive to see it.

You think that stabbing your most loyal supporters in the back, on the most important issue facing this country [ethnic separatism and our coming demographic doom] is "very smart political strategy"?

It might be "very smart" for the political career of John McCain in the very short term [when measured in terms of weeks - although it's not going to be "very smart" in the short term between now and Tuesday, November 4, 2008], but, in the long term, it's absolutely disastrous for the GOP and the nation as a whole.

Of course, McCain will be dead of melanoma circa 2012 or 2015, so what does he care about the rest of us who are left with the demographic and socio-political disaster that he and the people of his generation left us saddled with?

[Gaffer]

McCain thinks he can do this because he has the southern conservatives and Republicans ‘on his side’. In this, he is wrong and he will lose. And all optimistic suppositions about strategy, negatives for Hillary, negatives for Obama, states won/lost, who’ll cave, etc., h\e won’t get back enough of them to get the edge over the Democrat nominee......He won’t win because he isn’t a Republican.

[Cyber Liberty]

McCain did exactly what he should have done. Denouncing the ad Smearing Conservatives was very smart political strategy.

There. Fixed it.

[TigersEye]

Denouncing the ad was very smart political strategy.

It's a pitty so many pubbies are to naive to see it.

If the strategery is so schmart then why don't pubbies see it?

[Just A Nobody]

preserves his clean image

ROTFLOL!!! Clean image??? Riiiiiiiiiiiiight!

Selling our POW/MIAs

Keating 5

His George Soros funded Reform Institute

Member of the Senate Centrist Coalition

Long standing member of the Republican Mainstreet Partnership

Armed Kosovo's Islamic terrorists -- collecting one million dollars for his presidential campaign

And the ever popular -- McCain-Feingold-Thompson

SQEAKY CLEAN that one!