So much for the "magical McCain"

Posted By Mike Boyer Friday, May 19, 2006 - 9:02 PM Share

McCain In today's WaPo, Michael Kinsley tells us that when Sen. John McCain explains to democrats that he's for the war and against abortion, they hear the opposite -- and this will carry him all the way to the White House in 2008. I think Kinsley is still suffering from 2000-era McCain euphoria. That era is dead. Consider McCain's commencement speech today at The New School. National Review's Rich Lowery was there, and blogged it. Here's a taste:

'I supported the war in Iraq.' Boos. Explains the war was not for cheap oil. A little heckling: 'You're full of it!' Says he thought the 'country's interest and values demanded' the war. Someone shouts: 'Wrongly!' Someone else: 'More poetry!' (A reference to lines from Yeats McCain had quoted earlier.)He says 'whether [the war] was necessary or not...we all should shed a tear' for those who have sacrificed in it. Some hissing. Shouting.

It's worth reading the rest.

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