I told you people a year back when the liberals were busy boarding the “Straight Talk Experess” that if he ever got close to the White House, they’d start finding excuses to bail out.
So, comes today, the bespecticled Richard Cohen [1], leaping out the bus window, saying:
In 2000, I boarded John McCain’s campaign bus, the Straight Talk Express, and, in a metaphorical sense, never got off. Here, truly, was something new under the political sun — a politician who bristled with integrity and seemed to have nothing to hide. I continue to admire McCain for those and other reasons, but the bus I once rode has gone wobbly. Recently, it veered into the mud.
By Cohen’s lights, anything one might say that looks bad for Obama is ‘mud slinging’. You may recall I also predicted that, saying McCain was just begging to be backed into a rethorical corner, with is ‘no negative campaign’ nonsense, and that if he got himself clipped by it, he deserved it. Well, that’s exactly what’s happened, and I have no sympathy for him.
Keep in mind, please, this is of a kind with the failure he’s opened imself up to on “torture” that I mentioned, this morning. [2]
So, how bad a situation do we have here now? As I predicted he’s lost the support of the left… it was never really there, despite the months of touge bathing he’s been giving them. He’s running neck and neck with a candidate who should be any reasonable measure be losing in landslide proportions, were a string conservative in McCain’s place. AND, to make matters were, we have nutballs like Barr and Paul who place themselves in the rather largish area to McCain’s right.
Memo to the RNC: Are you totally devoid of leadership? You couldn’t see this situation coming?