BY TAYLOR MARSH
Republicans don’t want to listen to Al Gore. Okay, so they should listen to one of their own.
What is it that oil man T. Boone Pickens is saying in commercials across the U.S.? Oh right, we can’t drill ourselves out of our energy problems. Pickens has got a new video on his site outlining the challenges.
Seriously, John McCain needs to get a grip on himself. He’s starting to look down right desperate. Joe Klein agrees, only his point is on Iraq:
John McCain said this today in Rochester, New Hampshire:
This is a clear choice that the American people have. I had the courage and the judgment to say I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war. It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign.
This is the ninth presidential campaign I’ve covered. I can’t remember a more scurrilous statement by a major party candidate. It smacks of desperation. It renews questions about whether McCain has the right temperament for the presidency. How sad.
Scurrility Update: Readers should note that I said that I can’t remember a more scurrilous statement by a major party candidate. Smart politicians leave the scurrilous stuff to their aides; in fact, a McCain spokesman expressed these words almost exactly on July 14. There is a reason why politicians who want to be President don’t say these sort of things: It isn’t presidential. …
I don’t see flop sweat yet, but the creepy grin now appearing on John McCain’s face after he makes an attack on Obama is starting to worry me. It’s not even August yet, with a long way to go in the general election campaign, but the wheels are starting to come off McCain’s wagon. It’s not pretty.
Open thread.
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