aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

McCain’s credibility

Kevin Drum is among those noting that McCain’s got a lot of credibility in the bank:

Let’s recap.  Foreign policy cred lets him get away with wild howlers on foreign policy.  Fiscal integrity cred lets him get away with outlandishly irresponsible economic plans.  Anti-lobbyist cred lets him get away with pandering to lobbyists.  Campaign finance reform cred lets him get away with gaming the campaign finance system.  Straight talking cred lets him get away with brutally slandering Mitt Romney in the closing days of the Republican primary.  Maverick uprightness cred allows him to get away with begging for endorsements from extremist religious leaders like John Hagee.  “Man of conviction” cred allows him to get away with transparent flip-flopping so egregious it would make any other politician a laughingstock.  Anti-torture cred allows him to get away with supporting torture as long as only the CIA does it.

Remind me again: where does all this cred come from?  And what window do Democrats go to to get the same treatment the press gives McCain?

Apparently, Democrats are able to go to the internet bank that is the people. Much as I hate to quote the TELL ME SOMETHING I DON’T KNOW segment from The Chris Matthews Show, here goes:

MATTHEWS: Norah, TELL ME SOMETHING I DON’T KNOW.

Ms. O’DONNELL: John McCain’s campaign announced that they raised $11 million in February. Barack Obama raised 55 million in February. Hillary Clinton
raised 35 million in February. That’s mean the Democrats outraised John McCain nine to one.

MATTHEWS: And that augurs well for them in the future.

Tweety has spoken. McCain will be pitching Viagra by January. And these women don’t doubt it.