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Contrasting Through Falsehood
Matthew Yglesias — Marc Ambinder writes about the prospects for an elite backlash against the McCain campaign's new strategy of making stuff up: "I will defend every single word in every single ad," a senior McCain campaign adviser told me last week. "But you can't really blame Obama for gas prices," I responded. "As they say, if you're not part of the solution," and here the adviser paused and smiled, "you're part of the problem." > Concerns about whether McCain is coming off too mean, they say, are irrelevant. The media, they believe, has created double ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... I'm probably being naive, but this post by The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder gives me hope that the press might actually be rethinking its love for John McCain. ...

McCain’s Increasingly Negative Campaign Begins Worrying Some Republicans
The Moderate Voice — ... — have been polite in characterizing the McCain campaign’s evolving tone: it is now morphing into the epitome of the kind of campaigns run by the late Lee Atwater and Rove with the same kind of angry, lashing-out character attacks that led some to also criticize the latter part of Senator Hillary Clinton’s Democratic primary campaign. It isn’t a shift in gears away from the polarizing politics of the 1980s-2008 but a continuation of it. Writes Marc Ambinder: The contempt that many McCain aides hold for Barack ...