Mike Allen and Roger Simon are part of the brand new and much hyped 'Politico.com' that started this week. Well they are off to a deluded start already. Media Matters reports the two have talked up McCain on C-Span and the blog, claiming he is 'honest' and 'authentic.' Guys, come back to the real world. McCain is as far from those two adjectives as humanly possible.
From Media Matters:
On the January 23 edition of C-SPAN's Washington Journal, Mike Allen, chief political writer for The Politico, claimed that presumptive 2008 presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) "is like the president" in that "the one thing he has going for him is authenticity, steadfastness, sticking to what he says." In the very next breath, however, Allen noted that McCain has been "going and courting the sort of super right-wing that he once condemned." Allen then said that McCain "will get credit for sticking with the president" on Iraq, but also noted that McCain has "left himself a trapdoor" because he has said "that he thinks there should be more troops."
Maybe Mike needs to make up his mind on this matter and get back to us. Roger wasn't much better.
Similarly, in a January 22 column for The Politico, chief political columnist Roger Simon wrote that "[w]hen it comes to Iraq, you cannot accuse John McCain of political opportunism." He characterized McCain as a "straight-shoot[er]" and wrote that the McCain campaign's "ace in the hole" is that "McCain is honest enough and authentic enough to tell you what you don't want to hear."
McCain's has a few aces, but they do not include that type of integrity. Those high cards are having big money support, Bush's old campaign goons and the ability to flip-flop and be as slimy as possible to win the right-wing primary voters over early next year.
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