A good friend who lives in Arizona called the other day, agog at the goings on in NY, where the Republicans are trying desperately to keep those masks of compassion over their leering faces. My friend was particularly perplexed over the suddenly ardent support Senator John McCain is offering the president, a man he clearly dislikes and for whom he has little, if any respect. McCain even wowed the crowd with a barb tossed at Michael Moore, present in the hall.
To my friend I wrote this:
Saw the brief exchange between McCain and Moore. To use the
word "disingenuous" about a film you've never seen (McCain
admitted in an interview later he hadn't seen it) is
typically hypocritical Republican boilerplate, but not the
way McCain usually is. I have to wonder what weapons the
posse sent out to round him up for the convention were
carrying. He's majorly kissing the chocolate starfish of a
man not qualified to wash his dirty socks.
Oh well, go figure. From the snippets of speeches I heard
tonight, I think it will eventually be written that the Dems
played it too safe and too civilized in Boston. This is not
a gentleman's game. It's a street fight.
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