When I said it yesterday, I was thinking in the back of my mind, no, they won’t actually go there. However, not only did they, they didn’t waste any time. On MSNBC today Brad Blakeman criticized Barack Obama for flying on his campaign plane to visit his ailing grandmother. All I can say is wow.
Blakeman tried to equate it to the $150,000 the McCain campaign spent on clothes for Sarah Pailin. I’ll try to be fair, is it completely above board for him to have flown on the campaign plane? Maybe, maybe not. Is this a stupid line of attack for the republicans to take. Absoloutely. I guess that’s why some strategist no one outside the media has ever heard of was tasked with saying it, in case it sounds stupid (Yah think?).
It was pointed out on Countdown that if a democrat had said the same thing about McCain visiting his mother then the republican outrage would be heard far and wide, it would dominate cable news for 8 days. I agree, Bill O’reilly’s head would explode in a fit of fake outrage.
My question is: is McCain even trying to win anymore? Huffington Post has the clip here.
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