I think McCain's answer to the bitch question was horrible. The guys over at the popular and influential PowerLine blog have a different take:
After being given up for dead just a few months ago, John McCain is surging in the polls and turning up in the news. Liberals are trying to make something of the fact that he answered a question by a Republican partisan about "how we beat the bitch" (i.e., Ms. Hillary) without falling over in a dead faint. This, of course, can only be good for his primary prospects.
I will be interested to see overall numbers for Republican fundraising this quarter because it will give us a glimpse as to how the anti-Hillary strategy is working. The last couple months it has been all anti-Hillary all the time. Is this waking up the Republican base? Is it beginning to mobilize them? The next round of numbers will be a leading indicator as to that strategy's efficacy. If total giving to Republican candidates is up noticeably the answer will clearly be yes. If it is flat, bad days ahead for Republicans because it feels like the anti-Hillary blasts are the last ditch effort to get things moving.
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Donny,
I don't know that saying "we Americans" despise Democrats is going to help much in terms of dealing with the scar, and the divide between left and right that you mention. When you write "This divide between Left and Right is a scar we are going to have to deal with sooner or later" I wonder if the 'we' is the same as the Americans who despise Democrats, or some more general 'we' that includes Americans who actually ARE Democrats.
I won't beat up on you much over this, because it's Friday,and I've had a great week, and you've taken a real pounding on here lately, and I feel sorry for you.
Almost.
Sigh. That's the same John McCain who showed up on Saturday Night Live a few years ago. His attempted parody of Barbra Streisand could have been gentle and funny, but he just couldn't suppress an undertone of misogynistic resentment which ruined it completely. If that skit had gone on a few more minutes I'm sure more chauvinisms would have bubbled up.
The present hysterical anti-Hillaryism by activists in both Parties reminds me of Primal Scream Therapy in some respects, frankly. This particular episode with McCain says Republicans are losing control of it on their side. I'd point out that in 2000 anti-Hillaryism peaked shortly before the primary election in New York State, and what happened to Rick Lazio when he tried to ride that to victory in the general election. But I'm not sure anyone in the grips of it really cares.
McCain missed a great opportunity to show some class and set the bar higher.
I know McCain shoots off his mouth at times, but I still found it unbecoming of him (and mind you, I don't like Sen. Clinton!!).
Then again, Bush 41's "I kicked some @$$" comment about Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 were unbecoming of him, too.
Let's switch genders...should someone have asked Hillary, "How are we going to beat that d**k?", you'd be up in arms, Donny, would you not? In fact, you'd be up in arms if that question were asked of anyone. Why is b**ch acceptable?
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