McCain's Rove imports are doing a good job at what they do

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

McCain is becoming less coherent by the day. His arguments are readily falsifiable, and the more they are exposed as gibberish on the op-ed pages the more he repeats them.

Day by day his stump speech evolves to high-light the most ridiculous passages, winnowing out anything that's not so ass-backward as to be self-debunking.

Inch by inch, the press is giving up on their hero as his claims become too farcical to defend.

This collapse into incoherence is by design.

McCain is becoming an effective republican politician. Every issue has been reduced to a symbolic caricature involving the chief fascist virtues of will, loyalty and dismissal of the empirical world as an illusion that exists only to distract the chosen people from the more meaningful realm of arch-type.

McCain has seen what comes from having the press as your base. You lose to George Bush in 2000, but get invited to a lot of parties. Swing-voters don't care about the press. They don't even follow politics. He was well on his way to another lop-sided but press-adored loss until the RW Powers That Be put their foot down. He still won't win. The economy is just too hideous. But the Rove approach will make things closer than the McCain approach.

The most effective Republican candidates are CLOWNS. As McCain becomes more comical he is becoming less like Dole and Bush I (respected losers) and more like Reagan and the Chimp (ridiculous winners). He is a dangerous clown, and dismissed at our peril.

Handy rule of thumb: The efficacy of Republican tactics can usually be judged by how comical WE find them to be. The pug ace in the hole is, and has always been, shamelessness... a supreme disinterest it what people who won't vote Republican anyway think. They accept being hated as an acceptable side-effect of polarization. (Our side is more diverse, so we don't have that option. All we have are truth, justice and the American way.)

[blogslut]

1. He's not nearly as boring

...when he's Speedy:

http://speedymccain.com/

;)

[cliffordu]

2. A truer statement about the current state of affairs does not exist. Perfect.

"McCain is becoming an effective republican politician. Every issue has been reduced to a symbolic caricature involving the chief fascist virtues of will, loyalty and dismissal of the empirical world as an illusion that exists only to distract the chosen people from the more meaningful realm of arch-type."

Man, that describes the pathology of the true believers better than anything else I've ever seen....

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

3. And not just republican true believers

That stuff appeals to everyone, just as cake appeals to everyone.

Some people are better at resisting it, is all.

[cliffordu]

4. MMMMMMMmmmm Cake......

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

6. resist the cake-side

[KittyWampus]

5. Americans are diverse but we do have the option of using symbols effectively the way Republicans do