This is incredibly refreshing.  Posts that remind me just how AWFUL McCain will be feel like a breath of fresh air after being underwater for a LONG time.  I know there is a lot of concern diarying right now about Obama electability, but when I read things like this it reminds me that we are (and have been) right on the issues.  We can win this and we can do it on our own terms.  

So who is it McCain is going to throw overboard?

The right, who hates him already but are considered his base or the 70% of Americans who know G. Bush is a garbage president?

With these circumstances, I think Gravel could have beaten McCain.

The campaign for the general election is already here.  I'm not seeing much turning to the center.

Oh, clipping this would make a great DNC ad!

I don't consider Bush another McCain and think it's dishonest to claim otherwise, but when it comes to the economy, it is what it is. Good catch, Jonathan!

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napolean Bonaparte

I suppose we all owe McCain something of a thank you for doing our work for us while we get our house in order.

It must really suck for Republicans to go on TV these days.

I suppose the fact that Phil Gramm, the ultra conservative supply-sider, is McCain's chief economic aide is also not indicative of his economic plans?  Or do you now consider such policies "centrist."  

At a certain point, it might actually be helpful to pay attention to what the candidates say they want to do.  Especially since I think you are one of the folks that have bragged about voting for McCain in the fall.  At present, you seem to dismiss the fact that Obama's domestic proposals almost perfectly mirror Senator CLintons as some kind of mirage, but you credit McCain with having far more moderate policy proposals than he has explicitly endorsed.

How, precisely, does that make any sense whatsoever?  Simply amazing.  

Strangely, despite these screw ups Jerome is apparently convinced that Senator Obama is doomed if he wins the nomination.  You know, since Mccain is so incredibly strong and Obama is so incredibly weak.  Both for unknown reasons, of course.

At all events, thanks for this post.  It's good to remind ourselves who the actual enemy is.  You know, the guy running for GWB's third term that a bunch of purportedly progressive Demcorats nonetheless are bragging about voting for.  

Yeah, I see a lot of people moping around wondering if the tax cuts will expire. Rather than the whole mortgage credit crisis, wars without end, and de-industrialization of the US.

They got absolutely nothing. It's about time we crush them.

Made my day.  This is awesome.  If the third term narrative is going to stick, it's gonna be a bad year to be John McCain.

After all this, I imagine McCain will have a special kind of anger reserved for Dubya...the guy who prevented him from becoming president twice, in 2000 and in 2008.