Frank Rich: McCain Channels His Inner Hillary

[RamboLiberal]

BEFORE they were sidetracked into a new war against The New York Times, the Rush Limbaugh posse had it right about John McCain. He is a double agent. Some Democrats do admire and like him. So does Jon Stewart, and so do many liberal editorial boards and card-carrying hacks in the mainstream American press. So, in fact, do many at The Times, including myself. As long as I don’t look too hard at the fine print.

You’ve got to love a guy who said a few years ago that he regretted likening Mr. Limbaugh to “a circus clown” because of all the complaints from circus clowns insulted by the comparison. “I would like to extend my apologies to Bozo, Chuckles and Krusty,” Senator McCain told a rather startled Neil Cavuto of Fox News.

What’s more, Ann Coulter and Tom DeLay aren’t entirely wrong when they bluster that a vote for Mr. McCain amounts to a vote for Hillary Clinton (or, for that matter, Barack Obama). The Arizona senator’s otherwise conservative record is closer to the Democrats on immigration, campaign-finance reform, stem-cell research, global warming, oil drilling in Alaska, waterboarding, Gitmo and, until a recent flip-flop, the Bush tax cuts. In The New Republic, Jonathan Chait concluded that Mr. McCain’s Senate votes made him “the most effective advocate of the Democratic agenda in Washington” during the first Bush term.

All of which should make Democrats more nervous than the clowns of the hard right. Might Mr. McCain so blur distinctions that he could grab enough independents to triumph? He won even among antiwar and anti-Bush voters in New Hampshire. A Mason-Dixon poll last week found Mr. McCain beating either Senator Obama or Senator Clinton in must-win Florida.

The good news for the Democrats so far is that whatever Mr. McCain’s sporadic overlap with liberals, he is emulating almost identically the suicidal Clinton campaign against Mr. Obama. He has mimicked Mrs. Clinton’s message and rhetorical style, her tone-deaf contempt for Mr. Obama’s cultural appeal, and her complete misreading of just how politically radioactive the war in Iraq remains despite its migration from the front page.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/opinion/02rich.html?ref=opinion

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Frank Rich is the Best Editorialist In America Today

We are lucky to have hime.

[Panchojackson]

2. Rich? the moron who called an Inconvenient Truth a "high school movie"?

Let's not beat around the Bush. Rich bashes Hillary every day, even when he disguises his column as an attack against Republicans, and that's why you are orgasmic about him.

Today Frank Rich wanted to pretend that Hillary is not the only person in his mind, so he concealed an attack against her within some words against McCain.

Frank Rich told us that there was no difference between George W. Bush and Al Gore.

He also said Gore was a fearmonger who was exaggerating about Manhattan possibly being covered by water if the worst global warming predictions become true. And I'm not talking simply about 2000 alone. He said this in 2006.

He also said that the reason why Gore made the movie was because he wanted to be president, and that he was lying about not wanting to run for president:

Rich: (2-10-2006)

here's even an ingenious bit of fearmongering to go head to head with the Republicans' exploitation of 9/11: in a worst-case climactic scenario, we're told, the World Trade Center memorial ''would be under water.'' Given so blatant a political context, the film's big emotional digressions—Mr. Gore's tragic near-loss of his young son and the death of his revered older sister from lung cancer—are as discomforting as they were in his 1992 and 1996 convention speeches.

If ''An Inconvenient Truth'' isn't actually a test drive for a presidential run, it's the biggest tease since Colin Powell encouraged speculation about his political aspirations during his 1995 book tour. Mr. Gore's nondenial denials about his ambitions (he has ''no plans'' to run) are Clintonesque.

But he hates Hillary, and that makes this dim-wit the best. Give me a break.

[Joe Bacon]

3. ...And Frank Rich channels his INNER MORON!

Bob Somerby's Daily Howler has carefully documented the snide sleazy slime of high class Pre$$titution that permeates every column by this flatulous fool who told us that that the only difference between Gore and Bush was that Bush wasn't such a liar as Gore.

Thanks for the Pre$$titution, Fart Face Frank!

Check out http://www.dailyhowler.com and go through Bob Somerby's archives to see all the flatulent falsehoods this liar has fabricated!