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First, I'll have no truck with the phony case ginned up to rationalize voting for the most liberal and inexperienced presidential nominee in living memory. The "erratic" temperament issue, for example. As if McCain's risky and unsuccessful but in no way irrational attempt to tactically maneuver his way through the economic tsunami that came crashing down a month ago renders unfit for office a man who demonstrated the most admirable equanimity and courage in the face of unimaginable pressures as a prisoner of war, and who later steadily navigated innumerable challenges and setbacks, not the least of which was the collapse of his campaign just a year ago.
McCain the "erratic" is a cheap Obama talking point. The 40-year record testifies to McCain the stalwart.
Nor will I countenance the "dirty campaign" pretense. The double standard here is stunning. Obama ran a scurrilous Spanish-language ad falsely associating McCain with anti-Hispanic slurs. Another ad falsely claimed that McCain supports "cutting Social Security benefits in half." And for months Democrats insisted that McCain sought 100 years of war in Iraq.
McCain's critics are offended that he raised the issue of William Ayers. What's astonishing is that Obama was himself not offended by William Ayers.
Moreover, the most remarkable of all tactical choices of this election season is the attack that never was. Out of extreme (and unnecessary) conscientiousness, McCain refused to raise the legitimate issue of Obama's most egregious association -- with the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Dirty campaigning, indeed.
Who do you want answering that phone at 3 a.m.? A man who's been cramming on these issues for the past year, who's never had to make an executive decision affecting so much as a city, let alone the world? A foreign policy novice instinctively inclined to the flabbiest, most vaporous multilateralism (e.g., the Berlin Wall came down because of "a world that stands as one"), and who refers to the most deliberate act of war since Pearl Harbor as "the tragedy of 9/11," a term more appropriate for a bus accident?
Krauthammer has it wrong. Just about everyone else has moved to Obama, including George Will, Wm Kristol, and HUNDREDS of GOP faithful types who simply cannot stand today's GOP and John McCain. My condolences to you.
For the past 8 years, all we have heard is how the Dems are in such disarray and now it's the Repubs who are in shambles. People are jumping from the Repub ship like they are passengers on the Titanic.
Krauthammer has it wrong. Just about everyone else has moved to Obama, including George Will, Wm Kristol, and HUNDREDS of GOP faithful types who simply cannot stand today's GOP and John McCain. My condolences to you.
That's actually an irrational argument. IIRC, I've heard it called an appeal to common practice.
Regarding Krauthammer, I think he's right. McCain's f'up was thinking principle would show up politics. I think it was pretty silly.
FWIW: Krauthammer has a pretty impressive bio on wiki.
That was a great piece by Krauthammer, I'd rather go down with the McCain ship also, then support this social experiment that will trounce our Constitution.
"McCain the stalwart" says Krauthammer? What about "McCain the zero." Or "McCain the GOP hack." Or "McCain the protegee of this wife." Or "McCain the eternal POW." What the heck has McCain ACCOMPLISHED in public office, other than re-election in a podunk state with one big city? ZERO.
For the past 8 years, all we have heard is how the Dems are in such disarray and now it's the Repubs who are in shambles. People are jumping from the Repub ship like they are passengers on the Titanic.
Just about as many loyal Democrats have jumped ship over to the Republicans as vice versa. There is equal defection, if you will.
McCain choosing Palin was an irresponsible gamble with the fiture of this country.
McCain's campaign has had no center, unless it's the POW history. The shameful, neurotic game he tried to play us with that first bailout weekend - the four or five different half-hearted economic "plans" - Ayers, Obama associated with Ayers for BUSINESS purposes, as have many thousands in Chicago... as Krauthammer knows perfectly well... Rev Wright, they dont bring that up for several reasons and Krauthammer must know that.
Krauthammer is being deliberately disingenuous and a very poor, surly sport.
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