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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

"John McCain is Angry"
Posted by Jill | 5:16 PM
There's your meme, Democrats. It worked when applied to Howard Dean in 2004, why not apply it to a guy who has real, actual, documented anger management issues?

Apparently even "some" in the GOP are worried about John McCain embracing his dark side, and apparently, Karl Rove:

In recent days Senator John McCain has charged that Senator Barack Obama “would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign,” tarred him as “Dr. No” on energy policy and run advertisements calling him responsible for high gas prices.

The old happy warrior side of Mr. McCain has been eclipsed a bit lately by a much more aggressive, and more negative, Mr. McCain who hammers Mr. Obama repeatedly on policy differences, experience and trustworthiness.

By doing so, Mr. McCain is clearly trying to sow doubts about his younger opponent, and bring him down a peg or two. But some Republicans worry that by going negative so early, and initiating so many of the attacks himself rather than leaving them to others, Mr. McCain risks coming across as angry or partisan in a way that could turn off some independents who have been attracted by his calls for respectful campaigning.

The drumbeat of attacks could also undermine his argument that he will champion a new brand of politics.


Of course, that is all dependent on the media doing its job and pointing out that John McCain is now playing the same dirty, ad hominem attack politics that George W. Bush did. Will Americans fall for it again?

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Blogger jurassicpork said...
Hell yes.
7/30/08, 5:26 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...
>"John McCain is Angry"

Yes, but, you know, it's a righteous anger!
7/30/08, 5:33 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Yeah, Americans will fall for it. Fear will be used. Fear is affective.
7/30/08, 9:34 PM  
Blogger Bob said...
Certainly strange when a candidate's "campaign" seems to be running a campaign for some other candidate.
7/30/08, 10:39 PM  
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