NBC News’ Mark Murray says the wheels are coming off the Straight Talk Express.
McCain spokesman Brian Rogers issues the following defense of lying as a campaign strategy: “We’re running a campaign to win. And we’re not too concerned about what the media filter tries to say about it.”
Jeffrey Goldberg explains that McCain needs to lie because McCain’s core crazy policy idea is unpopular:
The point is that McCain knows that preemption isn’t the easiest sell these days: “It’s very hard to run for president on this idea right now,” he told me. So, what do you do when one of your core ideas is out of sync with the predispositions of the American public? You spend your days talking about lipstick on pigs. This might win him the election, but I’d rather see him debate preemption.
Once again registering my rote objection to describing the Bush/McCain Doctrine of preventive war as “preemption” (the point of the doctrine is to eliminate the normal standard of preemption) this is why I think it’s important to go beyond mocking Sarah Palin for not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is to pointing out that John McCain is very much a believer in the Bush Doctrine and the Bush Doctrine is incredibly dangerous for the country.
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