MSNBC’s David Shuster talks to Rachel Maddow about a recent column by George Will blasting John McCain as a man that’s temperamentally unsuited to be commander in chief. Well duh.
To follow on a bit from yesterday’s observation about the spreading disaffection on the part of the so-called “liberal” Washington press corps with the darling senator they’d so shamelessly fawned over for years as being a straight-talking “maverick” (while glossing over his shoddy record of non-accomplishment and other dubious shortcomings), it’s perhaps not all that surprising to now see an ostensible arch-conservative like Will also throwing up his hands in disgust at McCain’s childish petulance, populist histrionics and “Manichaean worldview”…
Well, I rarely agree with Will, he is a true small-c fiscal conservative and not a so-con or neo-con and he often speaks from his principles.
When you’ve lost Will, as a conservative, its time to pack it in.
Actually George Will and all the other conservative pundits are the ones who should pack it in. But I won’t object to them going out in a blaze of glory or hissy dyspepsia at least. It’s just too little, too late.
Will is a slick dissembler of the Right, but not an altogether unlikeable fellow. An avid baseball fan, and who can’t relate to that with a certain degree of warmth?
I just heard McCain on the radio announcing he was “suspending” his campaign to return to Washington to “help” with the financial mess. He has asked to postpone the debate.
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