Cossacks and Czars
- From: trudogg <independent@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:37:40 -0400
At the New York Times, Jim Rutenberg lays out the McCain campaign
strategy and where it comes from:
http://tinyurl.com/5a2eed
After spending much of the summer searching for an effective line
of attack against Senator Barack Obama, Senator John McCain is
beginning a newly aggressive campaign to define Mr. Obama as arrogant,
out of touch and unprepared for the presidency.
....Mr. McCain's campaign is now under the leadership of members
of President Bush's re-election campaign, including Steve Schmidt, the
czar of the Bush war room that relentlessly painted his opponent,
Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, as effete, elite, and equivocal
through a daily blitz of sound bites and Web videos that were
carefully coordinated with Mr. Bush's television advertisements.
The run of attacks against Mr. Obama over the last couple of weeks
have been strikingly reminiscent of that drive.
That's pretty clear. And the cossacks work for the czar, right? Not
quite:
http://tinyurl.com/69bezx
As Election Day nears, McCain's campaign is adopting the
aggressive, take-no-prisoners style of Karl Rove, the GOP operative
who engineered victories for President Bush....But the sharp-edged
approach is being orchestrated for an unpredictable candidate who
often chafes at delivering the campaign's message of the day. It is
that freewheeling style that has made him popular with voters and
cemented his reputation for candor and straight talk.
That's Juliet Eilperin and Robert Barnes of the Washington Post, who
evidently can't abide the thought that McCain himself is responsible
for his campaign's "sharp-edged" approach. Apparently he's just a
straight talking guy who woke up one morning and found himself
mysteriously under the sway of a vile cabal of political hit men and
unable to do anything about it.
Enough's enough. McCain hired Steve Schmidt, he approves the strategy,
and he signs off on the ads. If his campaign is mired in sleaze, it's
not happening despite McCain, it's happening because of McCain. Stop
making excuses for him.
?Kevin Drum
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