From P.M.Carpenter:
The swarthy bogeyman strategy had already exhausted its bad GOP-self by the 2006 elections. Now, it's a parody of a caricature wrapped in a burlesque, to paraphrase Winston. And voters just aren't buying it -- not, especially, while being swallowed up by the economic marvels of Bush-McCain, a rather pertinent topic of conversation that sends John staring absentmindedly into the abyss.
Voters, in time, notice these things. They notice when a candidate is but a blank slate upon which nothing immediately relevant to their lives will apparently ever be written. By constantly framing the nation's welfare in singular, foreboding and hair-raising terms, John McCain & Co. merely emphasize what it lacks: a relevant plan.
And the last thing we should want to do is take a guy like Charlie Black -- what with all his thuggish dictator friends and lugubrious references to America's future -- out of action. I think he's delightful.
All McCain has to fear is lack of fear itself. It's all he's got.
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