Stockholm Syndrome

If John McCain wishes to dispel the fact that he's running for George Bush's third term, he's doing a poor job. Politico reports that he's "getting much more than President Bush's endorsement and fundraising help for his campaign. He’s getting Bush's staff... A top McCain adviser said both [Ken] Mehlman and [Karl] Rove are now informally advising the campaign."

And here, last Friday, was Mr. Rove on Fox News talking up McCain's greatness-

"I don’t think people know a lot about him... Let me give you just one example: I think most of your viewers be shocked to hear the story about Cindy McCain in Bangladesh, visiting an orphanage, and she has a small dying child thrust into her hands and the orphanage... the people in the orphanage say we can’t, we can’t care for her, she’s dying, we don’t know what to do. And Cindy McCain’s impulse was to hold that…hug that child to her chest, get on an airplane and bring her home. When she got off the plane, there was John McCain, and he said, 'What do you got?' and she said 'I’ve got a child who’s dying, we need to get her help…we need to get her care.' And John said, 'Well, who is she going to be staying with?' and Cindy McCain said, 'I was hoping that she could stay with us.' And today, that young child–- who was near death–- is their teenage daughter. I don’t think most people understand the compassion and love that would come from a moment like that."

How repulsive and disgusting for Rove to even dare to bring up John McCain's daughter.

Let's flash back to the GOP South Carolina primary in 2000-

Rove invented a uniquely injurious fiction for his operatives to circulate via a phony poll. Voters were asked, "Would you be more or less likely to vote for John McCain...if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?" This was no random slur. McCain was at the time campaigning with his dark-skinned daughter, Bridget, adopted from Bangladesh.

What a difference eight years makes for John McCain and Karl Rove.

I lost all respect I had for Sen. McCain in 2004, when he so vigorously endorsed Bush's reelection... the man who had attacked his family and whose policies he had once abhorred. It was quite revealing about his character, or lack thereof. And now here he is, eight years later, sucking up to agents of intolerance he had pledged to rid from politics.

I don't want him, the Republican base barely does... so who does want this guy to be President? Besides the media, of course. I'm just curious.