In response to Margaret Carlson
He may be as delusional as Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, but with his military bearing, his seriousness, his white hair, his war wounds, his straight talk, he doesn't seem so.
Just as independents and Democrats project onto McCain a liberalism that isn't there, they may believe he will be like Richard Nixon going to China -- the hawk who can safely bring the troops home without having to say we're sorry we ever went there.
Digby sez
I simply can't believe that John McCain is seen as some kind of happy warrior and that the country has even the slightest notion of what "winning" in Iraq means other than that we are no longer bankrupting the country to keeps troops over there for no good reason.
What is Digby smoking? Of course the country believes that victory in Iraq is possible, necessary and will happen in due course and everyone will get a pony. I have learned not to be surprised by the amount of delusion that the good citizens of our country are capable of.
President Codpiece still has an approval rating that is in the 30s. While he has been very successfully hidden from the campaign trail, while he has been booed at baseball games,
he. still. is. approved. by. more. than. a. quarter.of.the.american.public.
McCain is still seen as the serious warrior, despite the fact that he has repeatedly bungled even the most basic facts about Iraq, Iran, Sunni, Sh'ia. Colin Powell still gets fawning interviews on television (he was on CNN yesterday) while being one of the 'principals' who specifically authorized torture.
In a rational world, in Digby's world, there would already be war crimes tribunals.
This is most certainly not Digby's world and Dick Morris gets it totally right
So it is with Iraq: He who proposes an alternative is doomed. McCain’s position, that we have to stay until we win, is far from popular, but it’s a lot better than unilateral and immediate withdrawal.
Watch while this line takes hold and Obama gets defeated in November.
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