Media to Co-Opt McCain?
Kimberly A. Strassel thinks it’s possible:
Mr. McCain once joked that the press corps was his true “base,” only to see that constituency turn on him when he dared to act like a Republican. From the sounds of the cooing noises that greeted his concession speech, the media are now urging Mr. McCain to get back in their good graces. They will help by making sure that on any occasion Mr. McCain joins with his party he is ignored, while any time he strikes out on his own he is elevated to the “Republican standard bearer,” who is “leading” his party in a bipartisan direction. We’re about to discover if Mr. McCain’s long-term memory for slights extends to the Fourth Estate.
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McCain will forgive the media’s treatment of him for one reason: they have the camera’s and he loooooves being in front of the camera. He will return to his old Republican-bashing, Democrat up-sucking self.
Comment by American Elephant — November 22, 2008 @ 6:05 am - November 22, 2008
There’s even been talk of him taking a job in Obama’s cabinet or being an ambassador or something, which would mean that he would lose his seat in the Senate and be replaced by a Democrat. But I dont think that’s going to happen.
Comment by Stopped Clock — November 22, 2008 @ 7:28 am - November 22, 2008
John McCain is not going to take a job with a beer distributorship like Agnew did. Nor does John McCain have any cleft palate foundation of his own.
What’s a guy to do? There is not much of a rubber chicken circuit waiting to pay for his advice.
McCain is undoubtedly fighting off the “so this is what it has all come to” realization. He is battling with being put out to pasture. What he will do to himself in the process is hard to predict. Whatever it is, it will be all about him.
Comment by heliotrope — November 22, 2008 @ 10:26 am - November 22, 2008
I hope he has the decency to stick with the Republican Party. We stuck by him by default – he was elected largely because independents and Dems can cross the line in primaries in many of the early state.
But I won’t count on it. Seeing how he never stood up for Sarah when his own campaign smeared her, I’ve lost a lot of respect for the man.
I can’t say I’m happy Obama won, but it seems to me that the right person lost.
Comment by Leah — November 22, 2008 @ 1:07 pm - November 22, 2008
I agree with you Leah as much as it pains me that Obama won.
One trait that I see that differentiates Obama and McCain is that while Obama is certainly driven by ego he at the same time wraps his ego around his own party. McCain on the other hand makes it all about McCain and to hell with his party.
Considering that McCain and his handmaiden from South Carolina are as apt to vote with the Democrats in the Senate as not, would it be that much of a loss if McCain did switch parties or were to take a cabinet post? At least the Repubicans would no longer count on him just to be shafted by his reaching across the aisle.
Comment by Not Always Right — November 22, 2008 @ 4:31 pm - November 22, 2008
Leah, with respect, I’d rather McCain do what he threatened to do back in the Clinton Administration and just join the Deomcrats. I have no time for part-time friends.
Comment by DaveP. — November 22, 2008 @ 7:44 pm - November 22, 2008
Dave, I dont think anyone agrees with me all the time. That means I have a lot of part time friends. What was it Reagan said? someone who I agree with 70% of the time is not my enemy?
Comment by American Elephant — November 23, 2008 @ 9:41 am - November 23, 2008
the illuminati MSM continues to surprise me, that they can be blind to so many things. I wish there was a way to publicize things like this more often.
Comment by EW — November 23, 2008 @ 6:18 pm - November 23, 2008
More interesting is how Obama is co-opting Bush’s policies. Immediate pull-out of Iraq? No, Bush was right, we have to stay there until it’s stable. Close Gitmo? Um, maybe Bush was right about that, too. Repeal FISA and the Patriot Act? No, Bush might have been right about those, too. Repeal the Bush Tax Cuts? Not so fast, Bush was probably right about those, too.
Comment by V the K — November 24, 2008 @ 7:21 am - November 24, 2008
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