Let me respond this way. I don’t see why the London Times reporter would make this up. My understanding is that they are conservative and probably friendlier to McCain than other British media. Moreover, what this reporter is reporting is, unfortunately, very plausible to me. It is consistent with some of my own guesses about what has been going on inside the McCain campaign.
McCain has a choice: Bob Dole or Harry Truman. Bob Dole would not go after Clinton in the way that he had to do in order to have any chance of winning. By contrast, Harry “give ‘em hell” Truman did just that, but explained that he was simply telling the truth and his opponent thought it was hell. Truman won, Dole lost. Negative campaining works when it is truthful and makes meaningful points. If you want to see how it’s done, watch Sarah Palin’s speech today in PA. It was devastating. You can watch the video at C-Span’s website.
To another person - Dana Milbank is a known Obama stooge.
How often do you read the Times of London? I read it at least twice a week. The financial stuff is okay. The paper is NOT conservative anymore. The politics and lifestyle stuff has a PC and semi-hard left bias like the BBC. The article had a real anti-McCain bias - the sky is falling tone to it. It is blantant propaganda. As bad or probably worse than the BBC or Guardian. I know BBC papers very well. Sun, News of the World, Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Times of London, UK Telegraph, plus BBC web site. The Times crap gets pushed out to Ireland, NZ, Oz, and Canada.
The paper totally changed years ago when Murdoch bought them. Murdoch backed Blair who destroyed the UK dosmestically. Open borders = Englandistan.
The only conservative papers in the UK are the UK Telegraph and the Daily Mail. The Telegraph aka ToryGraph has been slipping lately and moving leftward.
Murdoch global enterprise of Fox has Middle Eastern Arab investors.
The Times reporter took your worst fears and through in unnamed sources and one out of context quote to string together a bunch of crap.
Fall for progaganda if you must.
One thing about Dole and Bush 1’s second campaign. Neither of them got NRA endorsements due to the Brady Bill. Bush 1 got it the first race but not the second.
Every Repub endorsed since 1980 by the NRA has won. McCain got it on Friday. Largely because Sarah is a lifetime NRA member and is loved by the NRA.