A Quick Question

By BJ

A quick question

Which do you think hurts McCain’s campaign more:

a)    The endorsement from al Qaeda?
b)    The endorsement from George W. Bush?

I've having a hard time trying to figure out which would be worse.  I'm leaning to the Bush one, because there isn't any way the McCain camp can spin it as not being sincere.  Over and above that, you have to say that the last week really hasn’t been too kind to the McCain campaign, as Kevin Drum notes:

Let's summarize the past couple of days: (a) Politico reports that La Palin has spent $150,000 on campaign outfits, (b) John McCain's brother calls 911 to complain about a traffic jam and then curses at the operator for telling him to get off the line, (c) the New York Times reports that Palin also spent $30,000 or so on hair and makeup over a period of two weeks, and (d) a white woman who claimed she was attacked by a black Obama supporter admits that the whole thing was a hoax.

It’s hard not to feel a little sorry for the guy.  He’s way behind in the polls with very little time left to turn things around, his campaign is beginning to devolve into finger-pointing to the targets for back-stabbing, and pretty much every major news story coming out that effects his campaign does so in a negative way.

But never fear!  The right wing blogosphere is on the case with ever-more tenuous relationships from Obama's past and apparently a mission to "expose" Obama's mistress.  (Boy, the next few years are going to be fun.)

Comments

[Peter G.]

We should feel sorry for this man. John McCain, in a long and cratered career has served his country intermittently and half-assedly. His twenty actual hours of combat exposure and his twenty one(?)medals alone demand that we erase the twitching smirks from our faces and make at least a half-hearted attempt to conceal the embarrassment we feel for what he has become.

[Ida]

I've having a hard time trying to figure out which would be worse. I'm leaning to the Bush one, because there isn't any way the McCain camp can spin it as not being sincere.