Unsolicited Advice For Dems In The 08 Election
by Benn Ray
Psst... hey, Dems... stop pushing stories like this one.
Democrats need to paint a portrait of McCain as a continuation of Bush if they want to win in November. You want to push the image of McCain hugging Bush, not an 8 year old picture of McCain giving Bush the finger.
What these sorts of stories do is show independents and moderates that maybe McCain isn't McBush after all.
I know, I know, you like the idea pointing out McCain's flip flopping and pandering and you want to drive a wedge between McCain and the Republican Party's radical right base. But guess what, that wedge already exists. They know all this already. That's why they don't like him. But they're going to vote for him anyway because he's a Republican.
So knock it off. Unless you really really want to help distance McCain from Bush.
