How do i hate thee? Let me count the ways. Or, i could let Kevin Drum comment on something Eric Alterman wrote:
Discussing McCain’s success in the Republican primaries, Brokaw attributed it to the candidate’s “indomitable will,” and opined that McCain won by simply being “the most authentic…he wasn’t trying to reinvent himself.”
This is not only wrong, but diametrically, screamingly wrong. It’s not a difficult point — McCain won the primaries specifically by reversing himself on taxes, immigration, the religious right, and virtually every other issue important to the hard right. These policies were not only blazingly visible — Mitt Romney and others called him on it loudly during the Republican debates — but obviously destructive, as the last eight years have proven.
And yet, here is Brokaw saying of the candidate who by far has done the most to change his positions that McCain was “the most authentic…he wasn’t trying to reinvent himself.”
August 26, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Not trying to reinvent himself? Don’t make me laugh! I’m surprised he still recognizes himself after all the reinventing he’s done to get himself nominated.