Crank Time on the Low Road
October is traditionally the cruelest month in any election cycle, in which polling can close to within a downy pubic hair's breadth and the rhetoric ratchets up to levels that make you fear for the sanity of those who spout it.
Yep, the McCain camp's gone for the last option they have - going negative in as big a way as they possibly can. Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright, Tony Rezko, Obama's schools, his family - whatever it takes, and nevermind the bitter irony of McCain saying scant months ago that he'd never go negative in his campaign.
It was negative attacks, after all, that doomed his primary battle in South Carolina back in 2000.
But, like an addict who'll do anything for that next fix, whether it be meth, crack, smack, or sex, McCain will do whatever it takes. He's fortunate in that he has the Vice-Presidential candidate to act as his chief proxy. Sarah Palin, who combines so-so good looks with the political instincts of a hammerhead shark.
A hammerhead isn't exactly the most beautiful creature in the briny deep, with its beady eyes set wide apart on outriggers. But put a drop of blood in the water and it'll come calling, all appetite and sharp teeth, just to get a bite.
Which is neither here nor there.
Obama's campaign is fighting back with the Keating Five scandal back in the eighties, and will probably follow up with screeds about McCain's money, his associations and his sheer stupidity in allowing Palin to be selected for him as Veep. Her continued sequestration from the press needs to be explored as well, as do her associations with the secessionist Alaska Independence Party (whose founder cursed America far more virulently than Rev. Wright did).
So brace yourselves, folks.
Yep, the McCain camp's gone for the last option they have - going negative in as big a way as they possibly can. Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright, Tony Rezko, Obama's schools, his family - whatever it takes, and nevermind the bitter irony of McCain saying scant months ago that he'd never go negative in his campaign.
It was negative attacks, after all, that doomed his primary battle in South Carolina back in 2000.
But, like an addict who'll do anything for that next fix, whether it be meth, crack, smack, or sex, McCain will do whatever it takes. He's fortunate in that he has the Vice-Presidential candidate to act as his chief proxy. Sarah Palin, who combines so-so good looks with the political instincts of a hammerhead shark.
A hammerhead isn't exactly the most beautiful creature in the briny deep, with its beady eyes set wide apart on outriggers. But put a drop of blood in the water and it'll come calling, all appetite and sharp teeth, just to get a bite.
Which is neither here nor there.
Obama's campaign is fighting back with the Keating Five scandal back in the eighties, and will probably follow up with screeds about McCain's money, his associations and his sheer stupidity in allowing Palin to be selected for him as Veep. Her continued sequestration from the press needs to be explored as well, as do her associations with the secessionist Alaska Independence Party (whose founder cursed America far more virulently than Rev. Wright did).
So brace yourselves, folks.
posted by Walt at 12:59 PM
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