Even Karl Rove now admits that John McCain’s campaign has taken a sharp right-hand turn and straight into a mud pit.
Or maybe its’ a sewage pond.
There’s no other plausible explanation for the recent flurry of blatantly false, vicious and patently absurd commercials that misstate, twist and otherwise distort Barack Obama’s policy statements, speeches and legislative voting record.
McCain stands behind these commercials, which have been thoroughly discredited by every valid fact-checking campaign watchdog.
His only excuse? Well, he said Friday on “The View,” if only Obama had accepted his plan for a series of 10 Town Hall meetings with voters between now and Election Day, the “tenor of the campaign” would be different.
Clearly, McCain has now signed off on a political guerrilla-style campaign style that seeks to achieve victory at any cost.
It wasn’t so long ago that McCain was insisting he would wage a fall runoff campaign that would be positive in nature.
It is — it’s positively sickening.
He promised a campaign that would focus on issues.
It is — it’s fabricated issues.
He promised a campaign that the American public would be proud of.
Uh, no way to sugarcoat this one (After all, he can put lipstick on his mudslinging…)
Perhaps McCain learned a hard lesson from the 2000 primary season, where the Bush campaign knocked him from front-runner status in the South Carolina primary with a savage, unfounded flurry of accusations.
So, it seems, McCain DOES put victory over valor. And his speeches notwithstanding, he’d rather win an election than lose his dignity.
His much-heralded Straight Talk Express? Just more political barnyard bullshit.
Tags: Campaign, McCain, mudslinging, Obama, Politics
