BY TAYLOR MARSH
On foreign policy and national security issues, John McCain is the wrong man for the times. In fact, with Pat Buchanan saying McCain makes Cheney look like Gandhi, it’s hard to judge where McCain’s neoconservatism fits. Certainly not in the modern era.
….But Ted Galen Carpenter of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank who opposed the Iraq war, said McCain’s candidacy could be seriously damaged if Democrats mount a sustained attack aimed specifically at the Republican’s long-standing ties to the neoconservatives known as neocons.
VERY, VERY DANGEROUS
Carpenter believes that the more realist advisers such as Henry Kissinger on the McCain campaign are largely window-dressing to protect him from Democratic charges that he is really a neoconservative.
“John McCain is almost a wholly owned subsidiary of the neoconservative movement when it comes to foreign policy,” Carpenter said.
What’s in the news that got your attention this morning?
Got unity yet? Never mind, I know the answer to that one. But an LA Times/Bloomberg poll has some numbers that Democrats aren’t planning to fall for McCain’s propaganda, despite all the protestations claiming otherwise:
But the great majority of Clinton voters have transferred their allegiance to Obama, the poll found, with 11% of Clinton voters defecting to McCain.
An interesting MyDD diary offers some analysis, which I’m assure will bring out complaints.
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