The McCain campaign is really, truly, and desperately seeking people who will attack his military service. It now appears that this is the one thing that the McCain camp desires for this campaign to be about, above all else. In fact, not only do they utterly, feverishly, and passionately hope that people will attack McCain's military service, they even believe that there is a conspiracy underway to do so. Check out this unhinged comment from the McCain campaign, breathlessly arguing, in the manner of a frustrated teenager, that there is a conspiracy to attack his military service:
If you didn't think this was a coordinated attack on John McCain's credentials before, it's clear now that it is. Barack Obama's surrogates are telling the McCain campaign to "calm down" about attacks on his military record? Seriously? Now somehow Wes Clark's attacks are John McCain's fault?
Wow. This is an official statement from a dignified, presidential campaign? Lots to pick at here:
The McCain campaign "seriously" used the one word, rhetorical question "seriously" in an official campaign press release? OMG. What a dork. Like, his campaign should start acting more presidential, and stop acting so totally gay.
Do presidential campaigns usually declare their belief in conspiracies in such a public and aggravated fashion? It is certainly reassuring to see someone running for President of the United States to take such a calm, rational approach to something to incredibly important as what a couple of high ranking, retired military types said on television. It reeks of the sensible, retrained judgment that the most powerful person in the world should demonstrate.
Actually, if no one attacks you military service, and then you claim that people attacked your military service, then the attacks are in fact your fault because you made them up yourself.
The McCain campaign is coming unglued on this one. Democrats could do a bit better job responding, and not accept the premise of the ludicrous charges that the McCain campaign is putting out, but I'm starting to think that the McCain campaign will look whiny, overly sensitive, and unhinged with this entire line of attack. Obama actually is improving his standing in the daily tracking polls during this incident, so preliminary evidence backs me up on this one.
