Republican Party Top Dogs Keep Distancing Themselves From McCain

Yesterday the McCain campaign suggested that they had Barack Obama right where they want him. It reminded me of the old Monty Python "Holy Grail" movie's Black Knight, who, after King Arthur challenges him to fight, continues to keep trying to defend his little bridge after Arthur has lopped off his limbs one by one until he is a torso on the ground.

"It's only a flesh wound," said the invincible knight, looking a lot less invincible, and well, a bit like John McCain with two-plus weeks left to go in the campaign.

While McCain's staff loses ground in traditional as well as battle ground states, he has spent weeks trying to turn one state red: Denial. Rather than focus on the economy, where they have nothing, and they are tied to the 7 trillion ton weight that is the Bush Administration, they have tried to rabble rouse and get the Republican base scared and angry.

They've been campaigning in Denial with very little to show for it, other than fanning the fires of hatred that have produced home-grown racism in places like Missouri:

Palin is attacking her own audiences when they can't hear her with anti-patriot slams. The economy (stupid) which was supposed to be McCain's subject to address yesterday was instead substituted with yet another incendiary motivating speech to get the partisans out there angry and painting anti-Obama signs and using Curious George as a racist prop.

Florida governor Charlie Crist went to Disneyworld rather than do a McCain event. Bill Kristol, hawkish mouthpiece of the near-facist right, trashed McCain's campaign yesterday. Christopher Hitchens trashed Palin, and McCain for extensive bad judgment. Had old Bill Buckley been here, he would probably have joined the chorus.

McCain apparently is developing the stink of political rotting fish to most of the partisans in the upper echelons of the party, even if he is still getting his share of boos and jeers from the largely white, frightened "patriots" on the road in his stump speeches.

His greatest failing will have been that he needed the boos and jeers more than he felt compelled to stand up for what he spent decades running on.

John McCain is getting to the point where no one can take him seriously, at least any thinking person, right or left, who sees what a farce McCain-Palin has become.

A quote from King Arthur dismissing the helpless torso that he had beaten aptly sums up the lunacy that has been John McCain in the last thirty days:

"Silly person."

Comments

[NHGranite]

Is this election being thrown? Do the Republicans even want to be in charge after Bus h pushed us to the brink of being a well-armed 3rd world country? We are fighting so many wars - Ira q, Afgh anistan, drug, terror - that there seems to be no way to back down, even while the fighting depletes our economy for most citizens. A few are getting outrageously wealthy by war profiteering, while our young people in the military are paying with their lives. How does the country get out of this mess, when so many will follow the politicians who are throwing up smoke screens so we don't look at the real problems. Maybe by letting the "other side" win now so later, they are taking the blame for not being able to pull us out of an insurmountable recession or depression. What pretty words are we fooled by that we vote against our own best interests and allow 8 years of meanness, tragic wrong steps, and deplorable response to emergencies even remotely look electable again? Maverickness, is it? I don't think so, but who would want to run things seeing how bad it is? Are we getting snookered? Unless we hold those who put us here accountable, and face ourselves in the mirror, it will be more of the same.

[Jam3646]

The comparison between McCain and the Black Knight was priceless! And so true, if McCain truly thinks he has Obama right where he wants him, he's far more delusional than I originally thought...

The picture of the billboard from Missouri makes my blood run cold! Do we really live in a country where people are still so painfully ignorant, racist, and hateful?! I don't see how any educated person could still support McCain and not care to be lumped in with the white trash rednecks who are the base of his support right now. I am also praying for Obama, and for the future of this once great country.

[noir]

Desperation breeds sadness......

[bogues]

Seeing the bill-board with Obama in the turbin says it all. Only a fool would continue to spew the kind of hate that McCain/Palin are. How desperate can McCain campaign get. It is such a sad thing to see the kind of hate that has to be in a persons heart, in order for them to participate in this kind of deplorable behavior. The preacher that prayed at a McCain rally the other day and basically gave God a good talking to about how those who are praying for Obama must be praying to something other than the God he is praying to, is so scurrilous on so many levels that It would take days to say all that can be said about that kind of arrogant thinking. To hear a preacher say that in a public forum leaves little doubt as to what they are saying in the sanctuaries across this country. I am praying for Obama and I am praying to the one and only Lord God Almighty, the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End and the Great I AM. Indeed I am praying to the very same God that the McCain preacher is praying to.

[cybertoothcat]

Yes, bogues, I agree that only a fool would continue to spew the kind of hate that McCain and Palin do. The billboard above is absolutely shameful! But think about the voter would would buy into that billboard and their McCain/Palin hateful, racist messages. Fools! McCain is the perfect candidate for the gullible, the racist, the uneducated and those who believe that having been a POW is an automatic qualifier for the presidency.

Remember what James Carville said years ago about people who would buy into the ideas that Karl Rove had for sale? "Hicks and fools."

[FaceYourFears]

Amen --couldn't have said it any better. Surely the pastor knows, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap!

Keep praying for Sen O...I sure am!