Schmuckiavellian
The Left Coaster bloglord Steve Soto writes:
Obama needs to attack McCain’s perceived strengths and turn them into at least a net zero if not a liability. For guidance, see what Rove did to Kerry with the Swifties and then envision what Obama should do to McCain on national security and terrorism.
My old friend sees Obama attacking McCain’s military experience as a Rovian strategy (which, in Democratic circles, has lost little of its supernatural power to stupefy), but this is wrong for a very simple reason: John McCain didn’t come home from Viet Nam and slander America’s military; John Kerry did. I don’t know why Soto hasn’t figured this out yet, but it’s very clear. Americans don’t like people who slander the military, even when it’s a veteran. That’s why people have been kicking Wesley Clark’s idiotic ass all over creation the past several days. Americans know when someone’s a suckass sack of it.
The Swift Boat Veterans told the truth and shared their opinions about Kerry and it destroyed him. There is no plausible parallel in McCain’s life. The American People overwhelmingly perceive that McCain is a real patriot. Thus, when the cosmopolitan and better-than-you Barry Hussein Obama sends in the clowns to attack McCain, it stinks in the nostrils of real Americans. They simply won’t have it.
Please note again that Obama has done nothing but fuck up ever since he secured the nomination —and yet he continues to be shielded by a compliant press. Why is this happening? Because Big Media are afraid to be perceived as picking on Obamessiah. Because they are, for that reason, moral and intellectual snatches.
