McCain's seemingly spontaneous repudiation of unsightly, foul-mouth Bill Cunningham may have been unwittingly brilliant.
In one stroke, it gives a cold-water douche to the ugly, divisive wing of the party that Obama is fighting against (with gale force tailwinds), deflecting any direct Obama assault and simultaneously making McCain look attractive to certain conservatives anxious to release themselves from that yoke and setting up a pathway to conservative revival, if there is to be one without a full-scale meltdown, that starts by putting in their place the "dishonorable" rants of the Limbaughs of the world, that have soared to new heights even in the past year ("Barack the magic negro" is not even the sum of it!).
Now, McCain's response may not have been spontaneous.
On that score, John catches Josh looking for more evidence that McCain's firm rejection is a new trend, not just a one-off or a carefully contrived - even orchestrated - repudiation.
BY THE NUMBERS
Separately, what is interesting is that some stats have McCain voting "with Bush" 90% of the time. Why interesting? 10% is enough in the automatron party (see for reference the writing and research of John Dean) to become a "maverick", true or false?
Thursday, February 28, 2008
McCain Inadvertantly At Crossroads of Conservatism
