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September 16, 2008
Is our McCain sycophants learning?
Richard Cohen, a Washington Post columnist who admits being a McCain partisan in the past, has had enough:
...the John McCain of old is unrecognizable. He has become the sort of politician he once despised...McCain has turned ugly. His dishonesty would be unacceptable in any politician, but McCain has always set his own bar higher than most. He has contempt for most of his colleagues for that very reason: They lie. He tells the truth. He internalizes the code of the McCains -- his grandfather, his father: both admirals of the shining sea. He serves his country differently, that's all -- but just as honorably. No more, though...
His opportunistic and irresponsible choice of Sarah Palin as his political heir -- the person in whose hands he would leave the country -- is a form of personal treason, a betrayal of all he once stood for. Palin, no matter what her other attributes, is shockingly unprepared to become president. McCain knows that. He means to win, which is all right; he means to win at all costs, which is not...
Karl Marx got one thing right -- what he said about history repeating itself. Once is tragedy, a second time is farce. John McCain is both.
"The Ugly New McCain" (Richard Cohen, Washington Post)
Even sniffy, self-loathing elitist David Brooks is getting in on the act, having decided that Governor Hockey is not ready to be president after all. Still, he insists, the left was wrong before the right was.
Bonus: watch the McCain campaign lie in Spanish!
All these are via Joe Klein, writing at Swampland.
