From now forward, McCain’s name is synonymous with sleaze and gutter politics.
Watching McCain lately is like watching one of the great tragedies unfold. The hero consumed by his weakness until there is nothing left of what once made him a hero. If McCain loses, he won’t even have the solace of honor. And if he wins, he’ll have done it not by showing us how worthy he is, but by crawling into the gutter to drag down his opponent. As regards this Ayers thing, and McCain’s sleazy robocalls, he doesn’t have an accusation. There’s no fire, not even any smoke. Watch and listen… it’s nothing more than innuendo of the cheapest kind. (“Do you still beat your wife?”) And just look at him — he knows what he’s doing is wrong but he simply cannot help himself. His… lust for power? pride? greed? … forces him to justify what he knows can’t be justified.
Nobody is ever going to say John McCain acted with dignity and honor. He spit on his own reputation and dragged his own name through the mud.
“Going negative” hasn’t helped McCain; if anything, it has hurt his campaign. So what does he do? HE GOES LOWER!
Josh Marshall has a thoughtful piece over at TPM.
The Poor Man puts his spin on it.
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