On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 3:55 AM, PGage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:38 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I mainly found it surprising as there are so many more current things >> on which to quiz McCain -- all of Todd Palin's unsavory associations >> and work in the governor's office, to name but two. > > Well, McCain's Liddy connection has been thrown around in a lot of > liberal circles ever since Palin started with the Ayers smearing, and > a lot of people have been begging Obama to bring it out himself. It > may not seem like the most current thing to bring up (but again, it is > more current than Ayers) but I know that 90% of hard core democrats > would have brought it up if they had 20 minutes to question McCain, so > I thought that was interesting. I never thought Dave was really > plugged into the democratic pipeline - his description of himself as a > registered independent sounds about right - but for this interview it > seemed he had been prepped by his old friend Al Franken.
Dave doesn't personally have to follow liberal circles; another writer or staff member could bring it to his attention. There's a school of thought that a lot of peers of McCain have become truly disappointed by the campaign the GOP has chosen to run and they believe McCain personally is better than that. If Dave is of that school, you could see the interview as holding McCain to the standard of the man he knew. That's opposed to the school which says the noble McCain is a sham and an illusion put out by an amoral opportunist. We like to believe our party system is symmetrical - if two competing candidates switch parties overnight, the campaigns would look the same except for the names on the campaign literature. So every transgression is shrugged off as "both sides do it" or if one side goes over the top, the other side should respond in the same way. From what I observe, I don't believe the system is symmetrical today. The Republicans run there campaigns according to a different playbook than Democrats and each side will have to bring positive results and be accountable to the party, the donors, and the voters. The Obama campaign made a conscious decision not to match the sleaze of the McCain campaign and if Obama wins that choice is justified. Tom W --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
