Any sense of personal honor that John McCain may have still claimed as his own is now gone. He has hired Tucker Eskew to be part of his campaign. Indeed, it will be Eskew's role to prep Sarah Palin to be McCain's running mate. (Not an enviable task to be sure.) Why is this so indefensible? I'm glad that you ask.
Remember if you will the Republican primary race from 2000. A young(-er) John McCain was coming off an impressive victory in New Hampshire and it looked like his military record might just finish off an upstart named George W. Bush in South Carolina. However, it was not to be because McCain was "charged" with having a black child! Whispers. Innuendo. For shame. You can see where this is going.
John McCain is the father of an adopted daughter, Bridget, who was an orphan in Bangladesh. She has the darker skin of those in her homeland. This fact fed perfectly into the smear machine that George W. Bush was leveling against him. And while Bush may have been at the helm of this great, terrible beast, it was Carl Rove and Eskew that orchestrated this campaign of hate and lies in South Carolina in 2000. (Eskew was also called in by Bush to help represent his interests during the Florida recount later in the campaign against Vice President Al Gore.)
Many former McCain campaign staffers -- and probably a few current ones as well -- are shocked and appalled at the hiring. McCain has turned to the man who not only sunk his 2000 campaign, but directly attacked his family. How does he look himself in the mirror? More importantly, how does his daughter now look at him?
1 September 2008
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