The political sorcerer’s apprentice gets desperate
At Talking Points Memo today, Josh Marshall quotes a reader on John McCain’s public tantrum at a rally in New Mexico:
What a weird spectacle McCain’s speech was this afternoon. It was as though McCain went out of the way to take every criticism that has come his way and attribute it to Barack Obama.
Well, of course that’s what he did. Remember, McCain is just taking orders from Karl Rove B-teamer Steve Schmidt these days, and projecting your failings onto your opponent (in the hope that accurate criticisms of you are seen as confusing, “he-said-she-said” crosstalk) are just as ingrained in the Rovian gospel as trying to defuse your opponent’s perceived strength.
Unfortunately for McCain, as I noted two months ago about the latter effort, trying to apply a past strategy by rote — without adapting it to current circumstances — isn’t going to do much good. At this point, Schmidt is visibly flailing like Mickey Mouse as the sorcerer’s apprentice in Fantasia, frantically flipping through pages in the master’s book of spells in search of something that will the rising water from engulfing him… and not having any more luck.
Stumble it!
Tags: concern trolling, Karl Rove, McCain, Steve Schmidt, WH 2008
October 6th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I guess we Dems have been so kicked around over the last two POTUS elections we don’t dare to hope. Hope…I wonder when fubar will create and unleash his ‘October surprise’ flash video…?