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October 13, 2008
I love the smell of Republican panic in the morning.
Right-wing bloviator Bill Kristol, who fearlessly champions wars (as long as he and his friends are safely out of harm's way) caught one whiff of Misanthropes For Obama and began a panicky search for the campaign reset button:
It’s time for John McCain to fire his campaign.He has nothing to lose. His campaign is totally overmatched by Obama’s. The Obama team is well organized, flush with resources, and the candidate and the campaign are in sync. The McCain campaign, once merely problematic, is now close to being out-and-out dysfunctional. Its combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has become toxic. If the race continues over the next three weeks to be a conventional one, McCain is doomed.
Of course, Kristol can't resist squeezing in some of his favorite talking points/fairy tales: the media is evil (one assumes he excludes himself, for some reason), McCain is actually a centrist, Sarah Palin is smart and competent.
But the panic is right there in big bold letters. He and the rest of the Republican Media Elite are desperately casting about for a new sales pitch, and you know it's late in the game when they're falling back on this one:
[McCain] can point out that there’s going to be a Democratic Congress. He can suggest that surely we’d prefer a president who would check that Congress where necessary and work with it where possible, instead of having an inexperienced Democratic president joined at the hip with an all-too-experienced Democratic Congress, leading us, unfettered and unchecked, back to 1970s-style liberalism.
Oh no! The 1970s! I guess Kristol is making his own grudging steps toward progressive thinking—he's moved his Bogeyman one decade forward. Onward in triumph, Billy me boy.
