Ah, spring is in the air; somewhere in the frigid, white and windy though it be. And speaking of frigid, white and windy in Iowa, St. John McCain is out in the Hawkeye State trying to gen up support for being an aging idiot.
The war in Iraq followed Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) to Iowa on Saturday, as the Republican presidential candidate faced a series of skeptical questions about the lack of progress in the conflict and whether he or anyone has a plan for success.
It became clear from the opening minutes of his first meeting of the day just how much the presidential aspirations of the senator, who is one of the leading advocates of President Bush's troop-increase policy, may be tied to events in Iraq.
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Throughout, he walked a line between strong advocacy for the troop buildup ... and ... what he said has been a badly mismanaged war effort dating back years.
Amazing isn't it that he's saying that the war has been mis-managed. Gosh, you'd almost think he wasn't a rubber-stamp republican who was sharing a birthday cake with Preznit Couldn't GiveaShit while Iraq was disintegrating and Katrina was roaring ashore.
McCain is swimming upstream, thankfully. His so-called maverick status went into the shitter; and his stand on a variety of issues from the war to his buy-in of sanctioned torture has left his more moderate supporters who might have crossed the aisle to support his bid alienated.
