In the last few days three events - McCain's SNL appearance, Dowd's Sunday column contrasting McCain before and after drinking the poison offered by Steve Schmidt, his campaign manager, and McCain's concession speech - prompt me to thank Mr. Schmidt for making it a heck of a lot easier to see how closely a McCain presidency would resemble a GW Bush presidency.
Had Mr. Schmidt not run the campaign, voters would have had to analyze and evaluate McCain's proposals as to what is good for this country. By following Schmidt's advice, McCain adopted the Bush traits that have made his administration such a disaster for this country and the world. One could readily see that under McCain we'd have different faces but essentially the same low calibre people running the government, we'd rather use inflammatory rhetoric than really solve problems, we'd have an overweening pride and confidence in our own opinions whether or not these opinions were tempered by reality and we'd be so confident of the ultimate worth of our plan that we would never really measure its success as we know we are doing God's work and that is always good.
So, thank you, Stephen Schmidt, you made my job and that of millions of other voters a lot easier.
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