"We recognize it's not going to be 2000 again," McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said, alluding to the media's swooning coverage of McCain's ill-fated crusade against then-Gov. George W. Bush and the GOP establishment. "But he lost then. We're running a campaign to win. And we're not too concerned about what the media filter tries to say about it." Full Story »
Posted by Randy Morrow
What does this reveal? Many people admired McCain because he was above the fray, his own man, a maverick, not just another Republican. And now, he is just the same, telling the same lies, using the same tactics, actually living out loud (as it were) the facts of his political life, which is right in accord with Rove versions of politics. Nothing new; no change here, more Bush style ... and a VP candidate that out Cheneys Cheney. It is quite amazing ... and disgusting.
