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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

What Conservative Andrew Sullivan Said…

[More at The Atlantic]
[W]hen he had the chance to engage in a real and substantive debate against the most talented politician of the next generation in a fall campaign where vital issues are at stake, what did McCain do? He began his general campaign with a series of grotesque, trivial and absurd MTV-style attacks on Obama's virtues and implied disgusting things about his opponent's patriotism.

And then, because he could see he was going to lose, ten days ago, he threw caution to the wind and with no vetting whatsoever, picked a woman who... [he knew] was going to reignite the culture war as a last stand against Obama. That's all that is happening right now: a massive bump in the enthusiasm of the Christianist base. This is pure Rove….

No one who cares about national security would pick as vice-president someone who knows nothing about it.... No one who cares about this country's safety would gamble the security of the world on a total unknown because she polled well with the Christianist base….

McCain has demonstrated in the last two months that he does not have the character to be president of the United States. And that is why it is more important than ever to ensure that Barack Obama is the next president. The alternative is now unthinkable. And McCain -- no one else -- has proved it.

2 comments:

Seth Mooney said...

For as smart as Rove appeared in dialing into born-again homophobia in '04, it would indeed be nice to see that diabolical intelligence backfire on him.

Let's hope it continues to play out as it looks to be...

Dale Carrico said...

as smart as Rove appeared...

I think Rove is less smart than simply completely willing to violate any norm or law in the pursuit of his paymasters' ends. His are talents best appreciated by a criminal organization.

Let's hope it continues to play out as it looks to be...

Yes. I know a lot of good people are freaking out because of McCain's convention bounce and because corporate media so relentlessly coughs up hairballs of pseudo-drama and falsifying-"balance" rather than addressing real issues or calling Republicans on their lies and failures, but it seems to me that the Obama campaign is still doing fine. I don't see a Kerry replay here yet.