I have a dream. Not a very nice dream on the surface. More of a necessary dream.
Imagine we could harness the creative power and talent of the entire DKOS community in an important political task: namely, finding the best negative branding strategy against the three stooges: Mitt, Rudy and John? Remember, the point isn't to be nice. It's to win.
Here I want to focus in on the true story of a formidable candidate, John McCain. The next time some distant cousin or relative or co-worker says they're planning to vote for McCain, ask they if they know McCain is an ANGRY, STUBBORN OLD MAN WHO MAY BE LOSING HIS MARBLES.
I have witnessed incidents where he has used profanity at colleagues and exploded at colleagues," said former Senator Bob Smith, a New Hampshire Republican who served with McCain on the Senate Armed Services Committee and on Republican policy committees. "He would disagree about something and then explode. It was incidents of irrational behavior. We've all had incidents where we have gotten angry, but I've never seen anyone act like that.
The above article was written last summer on a right wing blog. Ronald Kessler's, McCain's Out-of-Control Anger: Does He Have the Temperament to Be President?
Now it's fair to say McCain's condition has gotten much worse. The straight talk express is now more like the crazy train...what with his stubbogn support for the surge. He's digging in his heels on this one, much like a certain President of a certain major superpower.
Does this sound like the work of a sane candidate?
"It is not hopeless," McCain told them. No response other than somebody coughing.
Reading his speech and stealing quick glances at his listeners, he continued. "The hour is late, but we must try, we must!" Beefy firemen, arms folded on chests, stared back silently.
"We do have some evidence that the new tactics . . . have begun to make progress," he pleaded. Audience members whispered. Some shook heads. One raised the comics section in front of her face.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
I'm not even sure McCain wants to win, when I read stories like that. But were he to win, McCain would keep us in Iraq for the next 20 years.
I have to go hit work, but I will be back to read your creative and brilliant contributions and contribute if it's still happening.
Is "Angry and Stubborn" McCain's achilles heel? It sounds to me like McCain is angry like Bob Dole was angry. Except he's older, more stubborn, and appears to be losing it. Or is another description more accurate?