06:15 pm
The Death of John McCain’s Honor
This is better.
Still a little too much repetition of the opponent’s talking points, but overall this is a stronger focus on Obama’s own message in clear terms that will connect emotionally to his audience. He should do a version of this as an ad. I think it would be really effective.
A lot of people are panicking right now. They think McCain is clever, and that Obama is weak. I have a different response: this is a sign of desperation. Is this all McCain has? Because he’s making stuff up now — and there are two months to go. He can fool some of the people some of the time, but he can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
In the past, Republican attacks worked because they started with a kernel of truth, no matter how flimsy: Michael Dukakis did furlough Willie Horton, John Kerry did serve on swift boats, and John McCain does have an adopted daughter who was born in Bangladesh. The slur worked because there was just enough there to make it sound plausible.
The current garbage coming out of the McCain campaign — whether it be pigs or sex or wolves (go find it yourself — I’m not going to dignify it by linking to it) — is based entirely on things that are patently untrue. There isn’t even a whisper, a shred, a breath of truth. The McCain campaign is resorting to flat-out lies. And it’s not even trying to hide that fact.
Right now, the media is eating it up. McCain and his cronies are taking advantage of the MSM’s fetish for “balance,” which means they will report both sides. But even the MSM aren’t completely stupid. They’re starting to figure it out, and when they do, McCain is going to find out what happens when you throw straight talk under the straight talk express.
In the meantime, keep in mind that the McCain campaign isn’t just contemptuous of Obama. They’re contemptuous of the truth. They don’t care what they say as long as it advances their team another inch down the field. But trick plays, head fakes, and illegal moves only work for so long.
John McCain is unworthy of the job he seeks. Someone willing to say anything to get elected also will say anything to stay in office. He and his campaign advisors have lost all moral standing. They have abandoned decency.
To put it another way, John McCain is willing to lose his honor in order to win an election.