“A little straight talk about your opponent’s terrorist, anti-American, communist friends and supporters can only help the campaign.”
Well, the problem is that the mainstream media is so corrupt and dysfunctional that McCain runs the very real risk of having any attack on Obama backfire.
Look how people are now talking about the “humanized” Hillary: She’s got a sense of humor, she’s humbled, she’s tough, she’s a survivor, she’s a national-security hawk after all, blah blah blah.
I don’t identify as either a Republican or a conservative, so maybe I see things a little differently than most of the people here. But it seems to me that much of what McCain is doing now is necessary to keep the press from labeling him a “mean-spirited” conservative who will simply be the third-term Bush.
I guess the thing to do is to wait and see if the North Carolina ad is effective or backfires on the GOP. The last thing any right-thinking person wants is for Obama to become a sympathetic figure under assault by the “Republican Attack Machine.”
I’d also ask everyone to keep in mind that McCain and his staff are daily chopping Obama’s positions to bits. McCain just said that Obama is the man Hamas wants to be the next president.
That doesn’t sound very PC to me. I’m actually surprised that McCain has gotten away with saying it.
In the end we all have to vote how we see fit, but I wonder if maybe McCain’s recent comments come not from arrogance but political expediency. Personally, I want to defeat Hillary and Obama, so I’m willing to let McCain play politics up to a certain point.
If he became president, there would be no way he could ram another amnesty bill down our necks even if he wanted to. That kind of betrayal would literally be the end of the Republican party. It would never recover. I don’t see McCain being so fanatical that he’d willingly be a one-term president who destroyed his party, just to please Mexico.