Desperation.

Here Rovie, come here boy... That's a good Rovie . . . ok now go fetch!

Let's see how the MSM responds to this. If they don't mock the McCain incessantly about this nonsense, then they deserve all the scorn they are going to receive...

yeah definitely desperation. but does this also mean that obama should get the voters who approve of Bush too? If so then the mccain camp has conceded the nomination.

Awkward Exchange between McCain’s press aides and St. Louis Reporter

That's pretty comical.

Having said that, I'd love Obama to keep branding McCain with the "third Bush term" meme he was repeating in earlier speeches. It was highly effective and was working, not sure why it was let go.

But as for McCain attacking Obama for being like Bush, simple retort: "Whose convention will Bush be speaking at?"

lol.

Right. Refused for too long to acknowledge failure in Iraq. Like when Bush walked through a Baghdad market wearing a flak jacket surrounded by 100 armed soldiers and guarded by air cover and said that it demonstrated how safe the market was? Oh wait.. that wasn't Bush...

McCain can CLAIM he's not a second Bush -- but videos prove otherwise. I can't wait till they start showing up in October before election day on the daily news and talk shows.

Rachael Maddow on Countdown last night showed a video of him doing just that - supporting Bush 100%.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (gasp)HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAWHAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA(wheeze; clutch sides)HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...etc. ad infinitum...

Didn't work, here's Countdown's website and story about BUSH/MCCAIN backing of Iraq!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#25695873

Oh my the McSame camp has simply sunk to a pathetic new low...I mean Obama like Bush? Oh dear oh dear, that is absolutely hilarious...Come November!

well...when you're right, and you've been right since the beginning ofthis godforsaken enterprise, than yeah, you're gonna be infelxible.

The IRAQ WAR WAS A HUGE MISTAKE.

It's in our interest to end it and get out of there as quickly as possible.

McCain seems to think that just because "the surge has worked" that that somehow justifies us going into Iraq in the first place.

Of course, they can't concede that the war was a mistake. So this is what they have to do...

I'm not sure I can keep up with the many different faces of John McCain. And maybe that's the strategy. He's just too blurry to pin down and that's how he'll get elected.

A true flip-flopper knows how to flip, then hold for a certain period of time, then flop.

For a man over 70, he changes positions pretty quickly.

The McCain campaign is turning into the monkey house at the zoo. Just fling any crap you can find and hope some of it hits.

Up is down, down is up, left is right, and Obama is Bush.

If this actually sells with the American public we might as well convert the nation to a complete oligarchy, because we will have shown to be too damned stupid to be trusted with a representative government.

Last week, he was accused of flip-flopping for suggesting that he'll listen the commanders on the ground to implement his withdrawal plan. Now he is too stubborn and bush-like in his policies. Yesterday senator Mc Cain told us that only facts should dictate policies but he has no problem supporting the decision to go to war based on false assertions. He still thinks that it was the right to invade Iraq even if we have not found WMD and Saddam has no link to al-qaeda. If Senator Mc Cain win this election, it will be because he is able to pull out nonsense on a daily base without being called on his inconsistencies by the medias.

One Week: Greatest Flip-Flopper ever known, will say anything to win.

Next Week: Too Stubborn, too stuck in his own ways, just like Bush.

Third Week: ?

Gods, they aren't even trying anymore are they? Have they conceded defeat this early on?

McCain 08 will make Dole 96 look like a well focused, spirited disciplined campaign.

Which Bush?

I have to say... I think McCain's got a good point in this particular case, and I am surprised to say it!

This ridiculous runaround is EXACTLY why Dems would do well, in any circumstance, to stake out their positions on national security issues, and stick with them, and not back down whenever someone with an (R) next to their name says "boo!"

For so many years, recounted many times in these comment threads to be sure, Dems have said things that they figured would make them seem "serious" about foreign policy by more-or-less parroting what the Republicans would say, but maybe with a just slight tinge of Democratic nuance. Republican-lite, in other words. Well, imagine trying to follow McCain's lead on anything he's said lately - it would be a campaign disaster.

I just hope Obama doesn't feel like he has to say or do anything more to placate the implacable. FISA was bad enough. None of this "I'll promise to stay in Iraq as long as we need just to show John McCain how serious a thinker I am" bullshit. In fact, I'd like to see more offense on the part of Obama, taking down McCain on all the crap he's peddled in the past 3 months.

This has got to be the DUMBEST thing ever. I guess Jimmy Carter didn't work so now they are trying to use Bush.

One GOOD thing about the Obama campaign is that they have been attacking McCain the same way every single day which is that McCain will be Bush's third term. Since they have been consistent, this attack like is sticking.

The McCain campaign has been very inconsistent in attacking Obama whether it is he is a flip flopper or naive or not trustworthy and now it is he is like Bush.

The problem with Bush was he wasn't a flip flopper at all but he is too rigid. So how can Obama be both a flip flopper and too rigid? Either you are one or the other.

Next week I wonder what their attack will be. Because Obama is going overseas for a week the McCain campaign will probably say that Obama is like Kerry.

They must be desperate. Maybe Obama's "rope-a-dope" with is supposed "moving to the center" is actually working. The McCain campaign doesn't know how to attack Obama consistently.

This reminds me of Hillary Clinton's campaign, actually. Didn't Mark Penn once claim that Obama was like Bush?

Where's that Clinton press release from ages past?

My first thought is to feel sorry for the journalists who have to sit through these conference calls every day. It's just one long campaign commercial but with less substance.

Let me get this straight. Obama is like Bush because he is so stubborn about insisting that there be a timetable for withdrawal.But if he says he wants to be open to "refining" his Iraq strategy, then he is in a flip flop. So absurd.

McCain should know, as old as he is, petrified shit does not stick to the wall!

Why aren't the Obama people saying that the real reason for the decrease in violence is the increase in the likelihood that the new president will withdraw occupation troops?
Look at it from an Iraqi view: why get ourselves killed to get them to leave when there is a good chance they'll leave anyway after the election?

"We cannot afford to replace one administration that refused for too long to acknowledge failure in Iraq with a candidate that refuses to acknowledge success in Iraq."

Wait. So has Iraq been a success or a failure? So, replace someone who doesn't acknowledge failure with someone who does acknowledge failure, and we can't afford this? Isn't this what you would want?

I may have pulled that a bit far, but the main point is that this is ridiculous (duh).

They're doing it again! They are attacking him for flip-flopping on Iraq and at the same time attacking him for being stubborn and rigid because he won't change. Just like they attacked him for voting for the FISA bill and at the same time attacking him for not really being for it. These guys are confused.

Well, y'all heard about the lady who got tossed out of a McCain rally for carrying a "MCCAIN = BUSH" sign, right?

Hey John - if you want to be seen as different from Bush, it's simple: SUPPORT IMPEACHMENT.

I can't wait to see the timeline skit on Jon Stewart come October,...titled "Squeezy McCain, contortionist extrodinaire"...more twists and u-turns than any gramps alive.

It will work. Tell a big enough lie, often enough, and you can "catapult" the propaganda. Of course, it helps to have a willing and pliable media. Black is white, up is down, Obama is Bush. It all makes sense to me.

The Bush campaigns were unscrupulous but they always stayed on message, i.e. they demonstrated much greater competence than the resulting Bush Administration ever has. By comparison, the McCain campaign looks like it's being run by a bunch of schoolchildren.

Offhand, this is the first instance I can think of in which McCain has tried to employ a purely Rovian tactic, the one in which you take your own greatest weakness (stubbornness/inflexibility/resemblance to Bush) and tag your opponent with it. Not a particularly deft attempt on the part of McCain and hopefully he won't improve with practice.

Excuse wtfomgbbqsauz?

Now THAT's satire.

I can't help thinking of Pappy O'Daniel's campaign in "O Brother Where Art Thou" -- the general level of clownishness has gone through the roof. Any of these could be straight out of the McCain camp:

"We got to get our own Little Man!"

"Moral fibre? I invented moral fibre! Pappy O'Daniel was displaying rectitude and high-mindedness when that egghead you work for was still messing his drawers!"

"I'll press your flesh, you dimwitted sumbitch! You don't tell your pappy how to court the electorate. We ain't one-at-a-timin' here. We're MASS communicating! "

Pappy's Staff: The reason he's pullin' our pants down.
Pappy's Staff: Gonna paddle a little behind.
Pappy's Staff: Ain't gonna paddle it - gonna kick it, real hard.
Pappy's Staff: No, I believe he's gonna paddle it.

McDumb As Bush

From the Jed Report:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsiADdmoh3E

Poor guys. They can't keep a message going for more than two days straight. And this one is clearly going to be a huge winner. Keep it up, McCain campaign!

Pray it doesn't work.

THIS IS EXCELLANT NEWS!!!FOR McCAIN!!!!

It gives a whole new meaning to the word "SPIN". I'm surprised no one has said that cigarettes are the cure for cancer. Who knows? Maybe they are!