Right Wing Sparkle and I worked together to prevent an inhumane miscarriage of justice at a Houston hospital once. So it may not seem like it but I try to not to be too negative about her. That is sometimes not too difficult as this post demonstrates.
While she comes out for McCain it's OK. I will admit, and further undermine my liberal cred, that I could have voted for McCain in 2000. Her citing Michael Kinsley as either a Democrat or a moderate instead of a Democratic basher in moderate clothing sticks a little. The fact that McCain as a flip-flopper who has been pursuing the hard conservative vote for over six years never really comes up is a another minor quibble. I could ignore this and even think it reasonable for her.
As has happened before, her comments are more revealing and where she loses me.
In the comments she blasts as a liberal myth the campaign Rove ran against McCain in South Carolina in 2000. As I write in comments:
That "liberal myth" statement is fundamentally dishonest as well. It was McCain, and his staff, who gave the interviews denouncing the push polls which you just announced are lies. Are you calling the candidate you just endorsed a liar?Her response is classic:
"John Weaver, political director for McCain's 2000 campaign bid, "I believe I know where that decision was made; it was at the top of the [Bush] campaign.""
Show me where McCain said it. You cannot. Show me proof it came from Rove. You cannot.And it is true, search all you want there is no proof the personal attacks came from Rove. You can find a Bush debate point that McCain voted against breast cancer research funding even though his sister died of breast cancer. You can find it common knowledge that Rove is the master of political dirty tricks from the time he was 19. That all of his campaigns are characterized by these smear tactics and dirty politics. Common knowledge that the Bush campaign sponsored and coordinated the attacks on McCain. You can find proof that Rove did push-polling in other campaigns. You can find the Bush campaign admitting to two telephone polls in South Carolina that most would see are push-polls but they are not the truly vicious smears. McCain only implied that Rove was behind the attacks. One can only assume McCain had a four year feud with Rove over the personal attacks and not some other matter. That McCain's 2000 and current campaign director blames Rove does not mean he speaks for McCain. The demonization of Rove must truly be from the power of the evil liberals and one of those myths.
I am impressed. Can we assume she will apply the same scrupulousness in only sticking with the "facts" when she writes about the opposition? Well, in the next comments section of the very next post she confesses that Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin, serial fabricators, speak for her.
I guess it is a "fact" if it is presented as such on any right wing blowhard's site but a liberal myth if presented in the mass media or a left site.
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