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This is after publicly ruminating over using it before, then graduallly and publicly determining that they probably wouldn't. The reason that the McCain campaign seems so sleazy is that every time they're about to embark on another attack on Obama, they launch a media pondering tour about whether or not they should do it. Because every anti-Obama smear they toss out lingers for days and days at a time, their crazy base picks each of them up and runs with them (or has already been running with them and therefore feels emboldened to continue). It's not so much that McCain's campaign has been purposefully sleazy as they've been meanderingly, pointlessly sleazy. It's the "fuck it, whatever" guide to Republican politics, with no particular focus except putting anything out there to win a daily news cycle. Obama was a conspirator in voter fraud for a weekend, a terrorist for about three days, until he was a socialist because some plumber in Ohio said so. Before that he was a celebrity and presumptuous, a race-baiter, a shady community organizer, sexist, inexperienced, a baby killer, a sex predator and a dozen other things. You wonder why McCain/Palin supporters feel like they can go to rallies and talk about Obama being a Jew-bought Islamic radical cokehead forced abortionist communist? Because it's the standard that the campaign's set by having ridiculously drawn out public conversations designed to draw full attention to the charges while laboring under the pretense that they're "debating" over using the smear. It might reflect poorly on me, but it might also be a useful strategy.
It's the "fuck it, whatever" guide to Republican politics, with no particular focus except putting anything out there to win a daily news cycle." so Jonah Goldberg is the architect of their election strategy?
She told her mother, and Cindy McCain has said that Bridget felt responsible for what happened. How in the name of holy fuck do they explain to their daughter that the very pukewad who dragged her physical appearance into the 2004 campaign for the sake of race baiting is running daddy's campaign now? How does Cindy live with the fact that the morally putrid asshat who waved her little girl around like meat in front of a dog pack, the little girl she rescued from an orphanage and raised, is in charge of her husband's media assault on another person with similarly brown skin?
"Now Bridget, you know daddy wants to be president more than anything else in the whole world. He loves that office more than me, more than you, more than anyone else except himself.
I think McCain seems sleazier partially because of his fake honorable moderate persona he had built up in the media. When you add that to the hemming and hawing about each attack, which is inevitably followed by the actual attack the whole thing comes off as extra sleazy. Talking about bringing up a sleazy attack just makes everyone focus on the fact it's sleazy. If you just go for it and assume it's a totally legitimate attack then you make your opponent have to make the case that it is sleazy, but they are undermining their own campaign.
McCain is just looking to incite the dimwit segment of his base - the tire slashers, the shouters - they want these cretins to show up at polling places in order to intimidate people. I wonder how many people may be disinclined to go to the polls if they are concerned about being confronted by GOP stormtroopers? Might blunt the Obama tide in southern states like NC, VA, FL, GA.
Obama can state that he doesn't want to make McCain's physical and mental health a subject of debate in the campaign because he doesn't think it would be dignified.
He will not hold the bipartisan political racketeers and war criminals to account. His inaugural address will be an appeal to turn a blind eye towards We The People's blood sins, in the name of political expediency, for the sake of possessing the raw power of the Executive branch. McCain is this simply the GOP's sacrificial lamb of this election cycle. I do not hold that the difference between the two parties is razor thin. But I know it to be far narrower than democratic partisans will have it during a presidential race. And the GOP, in one form or another, will remain alive and well, and a mortal threat to our democracy, in perpetuity. The most charitable view of the swine will always be: "They're not to blame.
The "could care less" framing is the American version of our "couldn't care less". Grammatically, it doesn't make sense, but nor do lots of other sayings like that.
Before that he was a celebrity and presumptuous, a race-baiter, a shady community organizer, sexist, inexperienced, a baby killer, a sex predator and a dozen other things.
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