He’s a lawbreaker. That’s the fucking language we need to be using. If our Blue Laird is correct, and the battle this fall is “against the media,” let’s start with stuff like this. “John McCain is a lawbreaker and hypocrite who thinks the laws he writes only apply to other people.” You can come up with a shorter way to say that if you like. Correctly focused Jane:
Having accepted public financing last fall for the primary, then deciding to thumb his nose at it when it didn’t suit his purposes, John McCain is now laying the groundwork for accepting public financing in the general. Aided by reform groups like Democracy 21 who have hammered Obama for not accepting it but have uttered nary a peep about the fact that McCain is breaking the law, he’s obviously looking to play the “holier than thou” card in the fall — confident that a compliant press and the wouldbe watchdogs will all take a nap while he does it.
And do go on to contrast and compare Jane’s direct speech to the timid and weak writing of the Boston paper of record at the link. It’s pathetic. The press so loves this man, it’s kind of gross and sick. It’s like they are a thousand sycophantic twinks, all aiming to nail the ultimate Power Daddy. Ick.
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Great Catch, CD
And you are absolutely right about the aggressive nature of the rhetoric we shouldn’t be frightened off from using in regards to McCain.
I would add only this thought. Let’s add the idea that in this regard, McCain is just like George W Bush. Oh yes, they are two quite different men, with different histories, but there is a reason that McCain was such a Bush enabler and it’s precisely his long history of personal unaccountability as a Senator, with the SCLM
playing the part of McCain’s enabler. Two for one - link McCain to Bush, remind people of what wimps the press have been in regards to Bush, and then insist they are doing the same thing with McCain.
McCain’s record of talking out of both sides of his mouth on the torture and rendition and Guantanamo and the Abu Ghraib issues is fertile ground for the harshest kind of rhetoric.
Just imagine if any of the Dem candidates...
… had been involved in the Keating scandal how often we’d be hearing about it this cycle?
Why Talk about Keating When You Have Clinton's Tax Returns
Which, I’m sure will yield so much very useful information. Unlike the Keating scandal - or the other brief scandal that hit a couple of weeks ago - that only shows how McCain sells out regularly to lobbyists. Why would that be relevant in a presidential campaign.
I’ve said this before, but the perfect person to hit McCain on this is Obama. Right now Obama is still quasi-stuck with the stupidest Village pander ever, saying he’d consider public financing if McCain agreed. Here’s his opportunity to back out and blame McCain and his law breaking. I’d love to see Hillary hit McCain on it, too, but this is a two-fer for Obama, he gets out of his stupid pander and gets attention drawn to McCain. Of course, the potential downside is that the press won’t care about Obama’s attack on McCain because, you know, McCain isn’t Clinton.
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Don’t forget to use the excellent spotlight feature FDL has to alert the press that this would be a good story to pursue.