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February 8, 2008
Going after McCain.
Politico has this piece today about all the rhetorical strategizing that Howard Dean & Co. are doing, now that McCain seems to have locked it up on the Republican side.
The putative POW-in-chief himself has already laid the groundwork:
As the economy was rising late last year as a major issue for voters, McCain in New Hampshire delivered this grenade, with its pin still in it: "The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should," he said. "I've got Greenspan's book."Those are not the only words that will come back to haunt him in November.
From the economy to Iraq to immigration to abortion, the Arizona senator's lengthy voting record and his primary season offerings to the Republican Party's conservative wing provide a deep vein for opposition researchers to mine for shifting positions and policy inconsistencies.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean is already moving to redefine the presumed Republican nominee. In a fundraising appeal sent out Wednesday, Dean called McCain "a media darling" and warned that "from Iraq to health care, Social Security to special interest tax cuts to ethics, he's promising nothing more than a third Bush term."
Memo to Howard: one picture does all the heavy lifting for you.
