Handicapping McCain

New York magazine runs a profile of Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign under a header that will make every one of his staffers cringe: "Is John McCain Bob Dole?"

"That McCain's political resurrection owed as much to the weakness of the Republican field -- not to mention blind shithouse luck -- as to his talent and grit makes it no less remarkable. Yet for all the hosannas being sung to him these days, and for all the waves of fear and trembling rippling through the Democratic masses, the truth is that McCain is a candidate of pronounced and glaring weaknesses. A candidate whose capacity to raise enough money to beat back the tidal wave of Democratic moola is seriously in doubt. A candidate unwilling or unable to animate the GOP base... A candidate one senior moment -- or one balky teleprompter -- away from being transformed from a grizzled warrior into Grandpa Simpson.

April 14, 2008 | Related News



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