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"I wonder if this stuff is going to be used during the campaign by the opponent?"
That would be political suicide if they did.
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The far right seems OUTraged by McCain.. and it's the wingnut R fringe that has been dredging this stuff up so far, not the Dems.
The Raw Story | Anti-McCain vets ready salvo against Senator's presidential campaign
TPMmuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Swift Boat Vet "Appalled" by McCain Smear
Ross Perot Slams McCain | Newsweek Voices - Jonathan Alter | Newsweek.com
Covert History
They haven't gotten into the Keating 5 affair much yet. (Will be interesting when that comes back out into the light.)
That said, I think it's low to base an opinion solely on how someone behaved under the most inhuman of conditions. I'm sure we'd all like to think we'd come out with our morals and principals intact; it would be great if we did.. but is it likely? I guess you could see it as the ultimate litmus test of character, but more telling, to me, are the corners you cut when selling out isn't a matter of life and death, just standard operating procedure --another day at the office.
Fox News recently labeled McCain a Democrat (they made this 'mistake', too, with Foley and Specter.. whenever some R falls out of their good graces..).
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They will blame the loss on the fact that McCain wasn't a real conservative (just like Bush.) They know when to fall back and regroup. They're already playing for the next election.
Everybody sing: Conservatism can never fail, it can only be failed.
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Hullabaloo
It's sorta weird to see the Rs eating their own to this degree. The "conservatives" just seem to keep moving the bar ever right-ward and seem surprised and offended that the average R voter is not following them off the cliff.
They keep incanting "Reagan, Reagan, Reagan".. but if Reagan were in front of them today, he'd be seen as too liberal!! (just as Nixon would be, to an even greater extent). McCain seems to have always been politically in the Reagan zone; it's the R party pundits that have shifted rightward. In invoking Reagan, I don't think their crazy zeal and short attention span allows them the liberty of analysis: Reagan skedaddled from Lebanon and -more important for purposes of this discussion- gave amnesty to illegals, let's not forget. For the Rs, this stuff has gone into the memory hole along with so much else.
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