Robert Schlesinger

John McCain's Coming 'Mea Culpa'

October 27, 2008 RSS Feed Print

Jamie Stiehm over at HuffPo neatly captures something I've been wondering for a while: When will John McCain have one of his my honor dictates that I fess up for my sins? Anyone want to give an over/under? Post your thoughts below.

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fox news is a complete disgrace. a megaphone for the extreme right and a journalistic fraud. fully in camp McCain tank, yet hypocritically proclaiming to be neutral.

kurata of MD 7:08AM October 28, 2008

John McCain could have run a good campaign based on core Republican values. Instead, he ran against Obama's inexperience before choosing as a running mate someone who made those arguments look silly.

Obama's lack of executive experience would have been a strong talking point until the former mayor of Wassila entered the fray. Now, Obama need say nothing on the subject. Inexperience has dropped out of the Republican discourse this year.

With that much said, one has to wonder whether any Republican could win after the economy trumped all other topics. The middle class base of the Republican Party watched house values and investments shrink to nothing in the eighth year of Republican deregulation. This was one thing that the Republicans could not pin on the Democratic donkey.

Robert Davis of IL 7:00AM October 28, 2008

FINALLY A BLOGGER WHO SPEAKS THE TRUTH. OF COURSE HE IS A MARXIST AND COMMUNIST. OBAMA HAS TERRIBEL PSYCOLOGICAL ISSUES. HE COMES FROM A BROKEN FAMILY, HE IS OF MIXED ORIGIN WHICH AFFECTS HIS IDENTITY AND HIS WIFE IS A BLACK PANTHER MILITANT. WHY WOULD YOU EXPECT HIM NOT TO BE A MARXIST..MOST MARXIST ARE PEOPLE WHO LACK SELF ESTEEM AND WANT BIG GOVERNMENT TO CARE FOR THEM. IN THE END THOUGH HE WILL FAIL AS HE HAS UNDERESTIMATED THE AMERICAN SPIRIT OF INDIVIDUALITY.

JON LOPEZ of GA 4:28PM October 27, 2008

Robert Schlesinger

Robert Schlesinger

Robert Schlesinger is managing editor for opinion at U.S. News and World Report, overseeing all opinion editorial content. He is the author of White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters. E-mail him at rschlesinger@usnews.com. Follow him on Twitter: @rschles.

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