I'm amused to see that Bill Kristol, a legendary conservative pundit (part of his legend is for being extremely right wing. The other part is that he's nearly always wrong in his predictions and advice) is using the "Happy Warrior" phrase in suggesting
what McCain should do next ... (for those of us who are not old, the original Happy Warrior was Hubert Humphrey. He ran for President, too.)
"What McCain needs to do is junk the whole thing and start over. Shut down the rapid responses, end the frantic e-mails, bench the spinning surrogates, stop putting up new TV and Internet ads every minute. In fact, pull all the ads — they’re doing no good anyway. Use that money for televised town halls and half-hour addresses in prime time.
And let McCain go back to what he’s been good at in the past — running as a cheerful, open and accessible candidate. Palin should follow suit. The two of them are attractive and competent politicians. They’re happy warriors and good campaigners. Set them free."
Sing it, Bill! If you LOOOOVE somebody, set them free. Free free, set them free.
Sorry. Bill Kristol channeling Sting is just too wonderful a vision to pass up.
It is a very odd campaign season when I end up agreeing, even if just a little bit, with BK.
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That might have been a good strategy, if it had been engaged in from the start. But now, it'd be yet another seemingly desperate about-face by a campaign whose image could get odds to be pictured next to "rudderless" in the dictionary. I'm hoping all this means McCain and Palin are simply screwed. Unfortunately, I've been wrong before.
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