[Darkwolf377]

Glad to see your post.

The NYT is doing what I (and I'm sure many) knew it would do.

It is playing McCain like a piano.

I'm not a huge fan of his, but I will vote for him, but he will not win. On this site just days ago, I posted how I thought it would play out: The press will start writing attack stories, and then McCain would feel betrayed. He has good qualities, but he has been an utter fool who, due to vanity, bathes in the love of the press--he LOVES being seen as "above the fray" and "talking straight to the American people" (as if there is some actual American Voter who is pure and non-partisan, who can see only the good qualities of both parties and buy into just those) and all that happy Chris Matthews crap.

But he has never understood that he is loved by the press because HE IS USEFUL TO THEM. Now that he has the Republican nomination, due in large part to independents voting in open primaries, his usefulness to them is over.

The press know that this story is ALL they need. No attribution, no real facts, just a story that does what it needs to--make McCain seem "like all the rest," like a plain old dirty politician who is in the back room dealing with "special interests".

I've predicted that next we will see McCain "Himbo Eruptions"--except it won't be over women he's slept with, it will be about HIM. Wolf and Chris and Keith will be showing us video of McCain tossing reporters out of the bus, red-faced, screaming like a lunatic about "my integrity."

McCain will self-destruct because the press KNOW HIM. They know EXACTLY what to do to tick him off. And they will do this over the next months enough times so the American people will think (realize?) he is deranged, and that having this guy in charge of the military is a scary possibility.

I don't believe in the complex theories being floated. I think it's very simple. The lib media know that all they have to do to win is let McCain BE McCain--his self-righteousness will be his undoing.

[roamer_1]

then McCain would feel betrayed.

The thing about irony...It is so ironic.

[Republic of Texas]

Well put.

[elizabetty]

The lib media know that all they have to do to win is let McCain BE McCain--his self-righteousness will be his undoing.

Which is exactly why every liberal paper in the country endorsed him -- he was the easiest of the viable Republican candidates to tear apart.

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[The NYT is doing what I (and I’m sure many) knew it would do.
It is playing McCain like a piano. ]

Of course it is, but the RINO establishment had to teach us a lesson by shoving their man down our throats. I don’t think “vote Republican, you have no where else to go” is gonna fly this time around.

[ncalburt]

I think the media does want to set him off.
I suspect the NY Slime hit was more a
counter attack for Obama since McCain has come out swinging him. Obama could not survive combined Clinton / McCain attack.
I think he can win .He may not win the popular vote but the electoral college
The Dems have moved into the far left territory.
My in-laws are old time Dems and they are scare off by Obama . They know he will take away there Medicare benefits and screw up there Doctors.They plan to vote for McCain if they have to. I think that crowd would put McCain over the top.