Once upon a time ago, way back in April, John McCain said he would run a clean campaign. Since then he has done anything but and his surrogates are on the leading edge of one of the dirtiest operations we've seen since....George Bush's re-election campaign four years ago. Ed Cox, Chairman for McCain's bid here in New York (though technically located in New Jersey) played the henchman role yesterday, when he repeated a talking point that is becoming a pattern for Republicans when attacking Barack Obama.
From The NY Sun:
The chairman of the McCain campaign in New York, Edward Cox, waded carefully into the politics of national security yesterday morning as he warned that the city could face another calamity if voters make the wrong choice this November. Mr. Cox, a lawyer who considered a run for Senate in 2006, made the case that the coming election would turn on national security, contrary to the conventional wisdom that the economy is likely to dominate the campaign between senators McCain and Obama. "This is a serious world situation," Mr. Cox told a New York delegation breakfast here in Minneapolis, before rattling off a list of global crises for which he said Mr. McCain would be much better prepared to handle. "If we don't select the right person as the next president, we're going to have more tragedies like the one we suffered in New York on 9/11," he said. Mr. Cox also suggested that a campaign focused on national security could make New York competitive. "Now that we're having the first national security election since 1988, New York will again be in play," he said. The McCain campaign has sworn off politics at the Republican National Convention in light of Hurricane Gustav, which made landfall on the Gulf Coast yesterday. Mr. Cox began his remarks by noting the hurricane and praising Mr. McCain's decision to curtail the convention. While he made little mention of Mr. Obama, his speech offered a clear argument for Mr. McCain.
Oh there was plenty mentioned about Barack Obama. Ed Cox just did it in his typically sneaky way. First of it is insulting to even allude that one candidate would not fight hard against terrorist attacks on our country. If anything, events before 9/11 show the leaders of one party and the current Administration acting neglectfully of their duty to protect America. It is also laughable that Cox thinks for one single second that the issue of national security could put New York into play for McCain. Of course, he and McCain probably know that, otherwise he might have set up a New York headquarters that was actually in New York.
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