Making McCain’s Case for Him
12 August 2008 10:00 am by Taylor Marsh
BY TAYLOR MARSH
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You know it’s a weird campaign season when Republicans are sending a better message for Obama than Democrats.
Oh yeah, this is helpful and it keeps happening. Yesterday it was Bob Kerrey. Via
Politico:
“John McCain is a known quantity,” says Bob Kerrey, who thinks
Obama will ultimately prevail. “You don’t look at John and say, ‘Who
the heck is he?’. He’s a veteran, he’s a guy who got pretty banged up
in Vietnam. He can deal with crisis. There’s some uncertainty about Senator
Obama.”
With surrogates like these, Obama would be better off without any.
It should surprise no one that McCain’s team blasted it to reporters as soon
as they saw it. It came flying into my email box earlier today.
Russ Feingold seconds this nonsensical campaign tactic.
Then there was John Kerry on “Meet the Press” recently:
SEN. KERRY: Yeah, I, I don’t agree. I don’t agree with Wes Clark’s comment. I think it was entirely inappropriate. I have nothing but enormous respect for John McCain’s service. I had the privilege of standing with John McCain in the, in the cell in Hanoi when we visited there together, when we worked on the issue of Vietnam together. It was an emotional moment. I, I have awe for John McCain’s experience as a prisoner of war, and he, and he does understand duty and service. …
None of this is helpful to Obama. Why don’t Democrats get this? I hope it isn’t foreshadowing of a kumbaya convention. We all know it will be followed by an evisceration of Obama and all things Democratic, right?
