Clinton vs. McCain: An echo, not a choice
This just in from George Will on “St. John McCain’s” last-minute distortions of Romney’s position on the “surge” in Iraq:
This was a garden-variety dishonesty, the manufacture of which does not cause a Clinton in midseason form to break a sweat. And it was no worse than — actually, not as gross as — St. John of Arizona’s crooked-talk claim in Florida that Mitt Romney wanted to “surrender and wave a white flag, like Senator Clinton wants to do” in Iraq because Romney “wanted to set a date for withdrawal that would have meant disaster.”
Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, the Clintons should bask in the glow of John McCain’s Clintonian gloss on this fact: Ten months ago Romney said that President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki should discuss, privately, “a series of timetables and milestones.” That unremarkable thought was twisted by McCain, whose distortions are notably clumsy, as when Romney said, accurately, that he alone among the candidates has had extensive experience in private-sector business. That truth was subjected to McCain’s sophistry, and he charged that Romney had said “you haven’t had a real job” if you had a military career. If, this autumn, voters must choose between Clinton and McCain, they will face, at least stylistically, an echo, not a choice.
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Thanks for posting the article. I can’t believe anyone could vote for mccain. He is not a conservative - period. He is old and cranky, cantancerous, bruttish, and mean. (Seams like I’m repeating myself.) He tried to stuff that immigration bill down our throats in the middle of the night. He didn’t get the point from we (the people) until the switchboards were shut down. Even now with his Mexican advisor, he would sign the darn bill over everyone’s objections. Don’t trust him for a minute.
If the choice boils down to McCain or Clinton, most conservatives will stay home, because that is not a choice, not even between bad dispositions. And Clinton will win. Which is exactly why the media are so anxious for McCain to win the R nomination. They will cut loose with all of the garbage that exists about this misfit, but they are keeping quiet about to help him win the nomination, as soon as he has it sewed up. What is circulating now only on the blogosphere will be on CNN, ABC, NBC, the New York Times, etc. and yes, Fox. Barf.
It looks like Florida Republicans (it WAS a closed primary, wasn’t it?) have sold the nation down the river. They should be embarrassed.
I’ve heard more than one conservative say they would vote for Hillary over McCain so that the blood of the country will not be on Republican hands.
“Republican” hands
Who should be embarrassed? It’s the Southern Baptist Convention. All they have to say to Huckabee is “quit” and he would be out of that race. But these supposedly pro-life ministers are encouraging Huckabee, probably financing him, too, so they can feed their anti-Mormon alligators. Thereby electing McCain as our nominee; Hillary/Obama as our president, and abortion as our continued policy. Is that REALLY what their members want?
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