Saturday, October 4th, 2008
Out of bullets
If Rachel Maddow is right (and I have no reason to doubt her), the McRove campaign is in what can only charitably be described as desperation mode. Which would probably explain why McCain is pulling out of Michigan.
Nevertheless, desperate people do desperate things. Remember, back in July, McCain named Karl Rove protégé Steve Schmidt as his campaign chair, and Rove himself is the Padawan of Lee Atwater — he of the infamous “Michael Dukakis set free a scaryblackman for the sole purpose of raping your lily-white virgin daughters” Willie Horton ad.
And so, I think we can expect the McCain campaign to go something like this from now through Nov. 4th:
