MKH Calls John McCain
Update: McCain's Big Speech

and the resulting post?

A thing of beauty. I mean, seriously, how else to describe a post that contains the following passage?

Now, figuring out whose name goes in the hat? There's a logistics/P.R. nightmare I would not want to wrestle. Good luck, staffers, as you explain the refusal of Queen C*** of F*** Mountain's application for inclusion, despite the fact that she was once on the payroll of a well-respected Democratic VP candidate.

I wonder to whom she could be referring? The subject of this post, maybe?

Anyway, the whole post is interesting. Apparently McCain wants to do semi-weekly conference calls with bloggers (to be selected randomly from the aforementioned hat) should he be elected president.

But why are you still here? You should be at MKH's site reading the whole thing.

Go. Now.

You'll thank me later. Ingrates.

Ace's Update -- McCain's First Big Speech On Iraq. Doublin' down. Now that is the kind of maverick postioning I can get behind.

Before I left for Iraq, I watched with regret as the House of Representatives voted to deny our troops the support necessary to carry out their new mission. Democratic leaders smiled and cheered as the last votes were counted. What were they celebrating? Defeat? Surrender? In Iraq, only our enemies were cheering. A defeat for the United States is a cause for mourning not celebrating. And determining how the United States can avert such a disaster should encourage the most sober, public-spirited reasoning among our elected leaders not the giddy anticipation of the next election. Democrats who voted to authorize this war, and criticized the failed strategy that has led us to this perilous moment, have the same responsibility I do, to offer support when that failure is recognized and the right strategy is proposed and the right commanders take the field to implement it or, at the least, to offer an alternative strategy that has some relationship to reality…

Democrats, who deny our soldiers the means to prevent an American defeat, have chosen another road. It may appear to be the easier course of action, but it is a much more reckless one, and it does them no credit even if it gives them an advantage in the next election. This is an historic choice, with ramifications for Americans not even born yet. Let’s put aside for a moment the small politics of the day. The judgment of history should be the approval we seek, not the temporary favor of the latest public opinion poll.

posted by Jack M. at 02:50 PM

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