"Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature." ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
MSNBC: McCain's Moment - Howard Fineman
Yes, I heard most of this. Great analysis. thanks for posting.
Media plays McCklown like Idiot
In case no one noticed, McCain showed in 2000 he does not have the toughness to deal with the elbows Hilary will be throwing.
And the media isn't mentioning it now, but McCain's cancer will be used brutally to make him appear as an unacceptable health risk. McCain will sit aroud trying to be a nice guy to all his media buddies, while they slit his throat for Hilary.
McCain is highly useful to the media because he is a "Republican," a "conservative," and a "war hero." I've put all those items in scare quotes, because many of us would question them. But the media can pretend they are all genuine.
Like Jim Jeffords, the media will only have a use for McCain as long as he remains in the Republican party and betrays it from within, so the can say, "Look, a conservative Republican war hero is saying these things." If McCain openly jumps ship and becomes an independent candidate, he will get huge headlines for about six months, and then he will vanish into obscurity just like Jumping Jim. I'm not sure if he's smart enough to see that.
It remains to be seen whether McCain as a third party candidate could siphon off enough Republican votes to elect hillary. The Perot experience disillusioned a lot of voters from voting on a third-party ticket. But who knows?
In any case, hillary and the MSM would be the only possible beneficiaries of such a move.
Bump for reference.