I certainly hope so. The "well so what if Kerry took his fake medals and left Vietnam early" type of defense worked like a charm in the last election.
Liberals don't care about things like that, because liberals think that people who do care are stupid. That means they will only pretend to care for so long, before the truth comes out. And the truth, in this case, is that the vast majority of Americans will have a problem with a close Ayers/Obama relationship, and the vast majority of liberals will not.
It's just like Kerry and Vietnam. The fact that Kerry was a pompous fraud that sold out his brothers in arms, while clutching a chest full of bogus awards, means *zero* to the average liberal. If it means anything at all, they support it. So they profoundly don't understand how it could be a negative. Their resentment of having to pretend it's a negative grows and grows until they just can't pretend anymore.
Nothing better can happen for McCain than the shining moment when liberals break ranks and start screaming, "Yeah, Ayers and Obama were close. SO WHAT?! American society deserved the punishment the Weathermen inflicted."
Because that's what they really believe.
Yep!
Obama himself doesn’t think there was anything wrong with being friends with Ayers.
Or else he wouldn’t have been friends with him!
Yup, and you have described Obambi's own mindset perfectly! After all, Obambi is the guy who was so deeply inspired by "white folks' greed runs a world in need." He is an ideological soulmate of Bill Ayers, just has little quibble about methods.
If Obambi had any real problem with Ayers and and the Weatherfreaks we wouldn't see a strong 15-year relationship between Obama and Ayers, from the "Annenberg Challenge" (which Ayers started and recruited Obama into) to launching Obama's first political campaign together, to serving together on the board of the Woods Foundation.
One of these days some leftists are going to start openly defending the Ayers/Obama connection because they cannot stand to see their beloved leftists have to hide and lie about their sincerely held radical beliefs.
OBAMA AND AYERS ARE IDEOLOGICAL SOULMATES.