All About McCain

[Strangler Lewis]

I'm talking about the National Enquirer piece on Palin, which, for purposes of discussion, I am assuming will prove true. I also posited a scenario for a black candidate with similar family problems, and I made an assumption about the likely response from the right. What don't you like about any of that?

[mousepod]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

I'm talking about the National Enquirer piece on Palin, which, for purposes of discussion, I am assuming will prove true. I also posited a scenario for a black candidate with similar family problems, and I made an assumption about the likely response from the right. What don't you like about any of that?

Your assumption about the likely response from the right to a non-existent scenario.

SL, I don't disagree with you... but I think that to have a productive argument here, these kind of remarks are unnecessary. On Wednesday, I had a problem with scaeagles repeating a Biden gaffe and then saying "Something tells me if Palin did this...".

There are so many substantial things to argue about here - I think that generalizations about potential ethical comments don't play well for either side.

For me, I'd like to talk about things like this quote from McCain (Oct 2007 - pre-Rove), where he said: "I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn't a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn't governor for a short period of time."

Granted, he was trying to beat Giuliani and Romney at the time, but it seems a little... what's the word? ... hypocritical.