Is John McCain Dead?

Some times it's hard to know what to wish for. At first I had hoped that crazy Rudy would not be knocked out of the box before he could become the nominee, because I was pretty sure that even a Hillary Clinton could have trounced "America's Mayor" without breaking a sweat. Now it looks as if poor, dumb, old John McCain will not get the nomination either. At least not if the Republicans live in any kind of a rational universe where winning is still on the table.

So once again I'm left not knowing what to wish for. Should I wish for him to take himself out of the running in light of the new Vicki Iseman scandal? Any candidate with an IQ of 65 would now conclude that he was dead meat in the water ready for any Democrat to render him into chum in the lead up to the general election. Or should I wish for him to just soldier on spite of his disgrace - on to a humiliating defeat in November? I have to admit to favoring the second option. It would be such great fun watching Obama serve "Honest John" his privates on a plate before the laughing electorate. I would not want to be in the position of a Republican strategist right now. What's left? Huckabee?

In spite of the overwhelming temptation to do so, I did not listen to Rush today. From summaries I have received, I hear that the lunatic fringe of the ultra right: Rush, Hannity, Coulter, etc are all forming a posse to string up the messenger i.e. the NYT. This is pretty amusing since even wimpy Bob Schieffer admitted the "story has legs." Yes Bob, legs, as in: the Times only broke the story they had been sitting on since December when they heard the New Republic was ready to go with a story of the Times' foot dragging on the McCain story. Michael Isikoff of Newsweek and Michael Calderone of Politico were also chasing the Times story. How long was the NYT prepared to wait? Till November 5th?

If the Republican leadership thinks that attacking that well known left wing subsidiary of Pravda, the NYT will work for more than one news cycle, they had better go back for another Dirty Politics 101 refresher from Uncle Karl. It looks like this time the Democrats may even be beyond the capacity of a Diebold to keep them out of the White House in '08. I think it may even be beyond the considerable talents of a high priced Democratic strategist to screw this one up. I hope I'm right. This election has more twists and turns in it than a Mitt Romney position paper.

Lest you think I'm some sort of a moralist concerned with John McCain's sexual conduct, let me assure you that I am considerably less troubled with what he did to Vicki Iseman than what he did for her. The only screwing I care about here is the screwing of the American taxpayer.

Robert Boldt an editor of MWC News, is a freelance film/video producer living in Jefferson City, Missouri. He is active in local politics, worked on the Howard Dean and John Kerry campaigns and is a cofounder of The White Rose Collective. Articles by Bob Boldt at MWC News http://mwcnews.net/bob-boldt

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3. 24-02-2008 18:43

What McCain did for Vicki...

An old man with a prostate problems,have been in a gitmo like jail for years kissing asses to let him go.How that affecting his psycology and behavior?This old snake can do any thing for a blow up job !Vicki good job woman ! 

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