Hilarious, on so many levels:
More important than ideology or personality is culture. For years conservatives have cast a suspicious eye on Senator McCain because non-conservatives find him appealing. They distrust the institutions of liberal culture — the news media in particular — to such a degree that a politician those institutions embrace must be suspect. They grow furious when they hear Senator McCain on Don Imus’s radio show but not Rush Limbaugh’s. The politics of polarization militate against a McCain candidacy. The man transcends the partisan divide — but what partisans want above all is a fellow partisan.
"The man transcends the partisan divide" deserves a snort of derision. But the rest of it is just funny: The far right is so consumed by fear and ignorance that it views John McCain as insufficiently conservative. Don Imus is the mainstream media, which itself is an institution of liberal culture. Stop it, you're killing me.
Either they nominate a real knuckle-dragger or they make McCain veer sharply right; either way, we win. Woo hoo!
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