McCain Is A Loser

As the SideKick says, McCain has lost all credibility. His fawning support of Bush, his cutting cake with Bush while New Orleanians drowned, his odious & racist attack on Obama, frankly, his inability to be a man, have torpedoed his claim to the "maverick" label. McCain & Colin Powell, two ReThugs I didn't think would drink the kool-aid, did drink the kool-aid & America is worse off because of that. History will view them both, as the SideKick smoothly states, "as idiots." I agree. & then there's the little ReThug party down in Memphis. Talk about white people not able to groove. Jesus.

"What's so interesting to me about these stories is the fact that the only two people openly trying to wreck the straw poll are McCain and one of his supporters. In urging attendees not to vote for him and instead write in Bush, McCain set himself up in a position where he can't lose. It's a total cop out in that, if he performs poorly, he can point to the fact that he wasn't trying to win anyway, going so far as to endorse someone else. And Lott calling the whole process 'rigged' by Frist is the icing on that cake, stripping what remained of the poll's credibility. This is nothing but scorched earth. McCain obviously didn't feel he was strong enough to win the poll, so he had to tear it apart instead."

Atrios has more.

McCain's absolutely wrong to think that the way to curry favor with the party faithful is to suck up to Bush.