Was that WaPo article really THE worst hit job every done in your political career, Sen. McCain?

Sen. John McCain never ceases to amaze me.

Over the weekend, there was an article in the WaPo that accused McCain of accpeting the very same soft money that he's previously worked to limit.

And McCain calls the WaPo article "The worst hit job that has ever been done in my entire political career." (Source: http://politicalwire.com/archives/2007/02/12/quote_of_the_day.html)

Interesting. I would have thought that the hit job the Bushies did on you and your family in South Carolina in 2000, was the worst ever of your career. You know what I'm talking about, Sen. McCain. Those calls that were made to White households in South Carolina talking about your Black daughter.

From the November 20, 2000 issue of Time magazine:

"In a suite at the Greenville Grand Hyatt that afternoon, Bush's top aides came together to save the campaign, but they were really plotting a murder. It was the Bush high command, with its South Carolina auxiliary: Rove; spokeswoman Hughes, as well as Warren Tompkins, a longtime G.O.P. operative in the state; state attorney general Charlie Condon; Lieutenant Governor Bob Peeler; and former Governor David Beasley. As a participant put it later, this was the moment "we decided to take the gloves off."

The trick was to try to cast McCain as a phony, take a guy with a consistently conservative voting record and paint him as a dangerous liberal, suggest that the war hero was somehow un-American, or at least un-South Carolinian. Out came the antipersonnel weapons: "He's not one of us," and "He doesn't share our conservative values," and "He's outside the mainstream." On McCain's lack of "conservative values," Rove piped up to say, "We have to get in his face on that. He's vulnerable." Added Tompkins: "He's an insider. When I hear this populist stuff, it makes me wanna throw up."

But who could put out the message, given Bush's promise to be a uniter, not a divider? Several outside groups, including the National Right to Life Coalition, Americans for Tax Reform and the National Rifle Association, stepped right up. "Right to Life will do radio; A.T.R. will do TV ads," said one of Bush's South Carolina advisers. Even though coordinating with third-party groups is illegal, the discussion explicitly revolved around the idea that these groups could be counted on to do whatever it took--whether it was running ads, passing out literature or making phone calls--to destroy McCain and save Bush.

Briefed later that day in his hotel suite, Bush agreed to the battle plan. The next 18 days would be the ugliest of his political career. In the heart of the Confederacy, phone callers and leaflets attacked McCain's wife's drug addiction, made racial attacks on McCain's adopted Bangladeshi daughter and warned of "McCain's fag army." Bush won the state by 11 points."

turns out they didn't have to work very hard, did they?

it's going to be very interesting to see how they media are able to choose between two lovers: McCain and Giuliani

whichever suitor wins the M$M trollop wins the nomination, and, most likely, the election

anyone who thinks the media are going to treat the winner of the Dem primaries any differently than they treated Clinton/Gore/Kerry should read this, for starters

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/13302538/the_low_post_the_scum_also_rises

Here is the last paragraph of the link. I hope others see it.

If the press is serious about saving itself as a social institution, it has to start policing its own business. We all have to encourage the likes of Barack Obama to hire the meanest lawyers on the planet and to file the hairiest lawsuits imaginable against the Hannitys, Gibsons, and Savages of the world. We have to impress upon the victims of these broadsides that choosing to ignore that style of libel is a betrayal of the public trust and an act of political cowardice that the rest of us end up paying for in spades. That's the ugly truth: Until one of those monsters goes down in a fireball of punitive litigation, we are all fucked. And it's not going to happen anytime soon.

Sorry to burst your bubble, you whack job.