The latest was the McCain fiasco. After luring Kerry and the Dems in with the prospect of becoming his Veep, and winning all these accolades as such a brilliant guy, McCain suddenly (and forcefully) endorses W and HIS war policies. This totally pulled the rug out from under Kerry, and you have to wonder if it wasn't at least partially orchestrated by Bush.
OK, so you ready for the biggie? I think that if they are "encouraging" crap like this about how we are "losing" the WOT to come out . . . that means we must be VERY close to landing OBL and Zawahiri. The door is about to slam in Kerry's "effing" big nose one more time, and Bush set him up again.
Well, I don't know about "orchestrated" by Bush, but you have to admire the guy's poker-playing.
He lies in the weeds, and everybody thinks he's toast, and then bang! - he's on top, and somebody says "what hit me?"
Reminds me of the old bumper sticker - "I may be slow, but I'm ahead of YOU".
I think you read the McCain deal exactly correctly, which means that Republicans have really, truly, and finally learned to play political hardball. Cool, huh?
And, I agree on your assessment on this. Bush and his team are playing their cards close to the vest, but they definitely are holding some good ones.
I was thinking about McCain yesterday, after some cable reported that he would be a likely candidate for DOD in a Kerry administration.
Obviously they don't realize that McCain doesn't like to BE criticized, he likes to criticize; both parties. He'll never do it.