Krugman
Paul Krugman nails a warning that I’ve been giving about John McCain for years. This guy is no moderate. He’s a great politician who knows how to manipulate the media to create an image of being a maverick and a more reasonable voice than what comes from the Bush administration. That is all just spin and image making. Now that the media has a narrative that they’ve used for McCain for years, though, they’re unlikely to change it.
I still say he’s the odds on favorite for the nomination at this stage in the game. That’s doubly true if people like Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney actually end up running as well financed candidates. There’s no way that southern GOP primary voters will support a mormon. I don’t think there’s much of a chance of them supporting someone as pro-choice and pro-gay as Giuliani. He’d have to just kill in Iowa and New Hampshire to stay in it. With McCain’s past record of support in New Hampshire, that would be difficult.
March 14th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
Here’s further support to that theory. McCain’s people hope you don’t notice his attempts to transfer the Bush personality cult to himself.
March 14th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
That’s interesting and fits well with other stuff I’m seeing about McCain. He’s absolutely working on becoming the winner of the money primary. Also interesting is the fact that McCain’s 2000 campaign strategist Mike Murphy left Mitt Romney’s employ. Murphy seems like a guy who is a believer when it comes to McCain. I would expect to see him take a less visible role if they’re going to follow through on this strategy of assuming the mantle Bush’s personality cult.