Careful Steps to a New Bush-McCain Alliance: “…one of the odder embraces in politics in a long while.
…The newfound friendship may be good for late-night laughs, but it is deadly serious political business for both men, the result of a deliberate, months-long effort by the White House to woo the Arizona senator – the most popular national political figure in the country – and of Mr. McCain’s self-interested susceptibility to same. The turnabout could not be more striking, and for both men the stakes could be nothing less than the presidency itself.” (New York Times)
An effective Democratic response to this would be to paint McCain’s newfound compliance as the selfserving attempt that it is to reestablish his party loyalty iin order to position himself for a 2008 presidential run.
