Friday, October 3, 2008

The Grey Lady Speaks

NY Times editorial about the VP debate:
In the end, the debate did not change the essential truth of Ms. Palin’s candidacy: Mr. McCain made a wildly irresponsible choice that shattered the image he created for himself as the honest, seasoned, experienced man of principle and judgment. It was either an act of incredible cynicism or appallingly bad judgment.
Or both.

And let's not kid ourselves, OK? John McCan't may have been a "straight talk" guy in the past, which won him some fans who like those who cut against the grain. But character matters: he ditched his faithful wife, who stood by him as he lay broken in a POW camp, for an heiress, which flies in the face of the guy who said, "Tell my wife I love her" when he was being imprisoned. This is the guy who called Evangelical behemoths like Robertson and Falwell "agents of intolerance" not because he really believed it, but because he thought it served his purposes when he was running for president against a born-again opponent named George W. Bush. Let's not forget that he embraced both of them and sought their endorsements wholeheartedly years later.

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