LAT: Next week, as Clinton and Obama gouge each other's eyes out, Mccain will be winning the GE

[Tropics_Dude83]

As a war hero, true patriot, adult in charge, etc.

He's beginning his electoral campaign for the general next week!

Meanwhile, the circular firing squad continues with our so-called party elders saying "Let it go to July!"

This needs to end now.

Ron Brownstein wrote the excellent article:

http://nationaljournal.com/brownstein.htm

Title is my interpretation

Here's a quote:

If the past month is any guide, while McCain lays down these markers, Obama and Clinton will be gouging each other. In the past few days, Democrats have witnessed one prominent Obama supporter liken former President Bill Clinton to Joseph McCarthy and one prominent Clintonite liken New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to Judas (for endorsing Obama). The Clinton campaign says that Obama can't be trusted as commander-in-chief, and the Obama campaign says that Hillary Clinton can't be trusted, period. Each Democratic candidate is now providing so many lacerating quotes about the other that Republican ad-writers may not need to do much more this fall than cut and paste. Even more important, by focusing so relentlessly inward, the Democrats are providing McCain an open field to re-introduce himself.

This spring might have looked very different, as a new study of the candidates' finances from George Washington University's Campaign Finance Institute suggests. In February alone, Obama and Clinton collected a combined $90 million, dwarfing McCain's $11 million. Through his entire campaign, McCain has raised $66 million compared with Clinton's $174 million and Obama's $197 million. The disparity is even greater among small donors, who are rapidly becoming the critical engine of presidential financing. Obama and Clinton last month collected nearly $48 million in donations of $200 or less. For McCain the tally was just over $2 million. Every 30 hours, the two Democrats raised as much from small donors as McCain did all month.

[VolcanoJen]

1. Maybe it's just me...

... but I think the longer a look the American people get at McCain, the more they'll say "hell no."

[meow mix]

2. another fact is that Voters postions become hardened. increasing the dropout and revenge votes.

i think hillary and bill are counting on this to make Obama lose the GE.

[dailykoff]

3. Brownstein is a neocon troll and full of shit as usual.

Anybody who pretends Obama and Clinton are "gouging each other" is diverting blame from Hillary's shameless swiftboating. If Obama wanted to fight shit with shit, he could, and he's not. So nuts to Brownstein and his little agenda.

[depakid]

6. He certainly is

and for a time, the LA Times had him banned from reporting on the election because (quite aside from his being dishonest) the man is "ethically challenged."

LA Times political journalist and columnist Ronald Brownstein is in a bit of hot water over his marriage to U.S. Sen. John McCain's director of communications while at the same time writing about McCain.

http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/silence/archives/2005/06/journalism_and.shtml

[Tropics_Dude83]

7. Wow I had no clue about that

Still think this primary needs to end now though.

[dailykoff]

8. That much he's right about

it's the dream ticket part that's baloney, IMHO anyway.

[featherman]

9. I like the comment that Brownstein should preface every article

he writes about the election with a disclaimer: " I am currently sleeping with the Director of Communications for John McCain"

In fact all AP writers, TV commentators, and columnists should add a disclaimer: " I have a mad crush on straight-shootin' John McCain" before each article or commentary.

[bluestateguy]

4. More hand wringing

which accomplishes nothing.

[featherman]

5. More McCain man-love from the usual suspects

McCain is a terrible candidate and campaigner... the only thing he's got going for him is that 95% of the MSM will be actively pimping for him