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Do It to Me One More Time
 Wednesday night, President Bush addressed the nation and informed us just how badly he’s going to screw John McCain this time. It was fun to watch because he’s done it so hard and so often that McCain likes it now. He was pretty mad about South Carolina in 2000, and mighty peeved about the torture bill, and grumbled a bit about the price of oil and tax cuts, but through it all, McCain has been more loyal to The Great Decider than Laura and Condi combined. Nonetheless, if Bush endorses the McCain Doctrine and actually increases the force size in Iraq, he’s doomed McCain’s presidential candidacy once again.
The McCain Doctrine is the stupidest idea he’s had since he did “bad things” for Charles Keating. Send more troops to Iraq? It’s something someone might say on a Sunday morning talk show after a hard night of self-medicating the night before. Seventeen percent of the American people support the war – that’s the Religious Right and Halliburton shareholders. When McCain actually starts running for president he’ll learn all too quickly that this attempt to breathe a little life back into Bush’s Folly was folly in and of itself.
Support for the troop "splurge," as we’ll call it -- because back in the good ole Rummy days, we were doing troop strength on the cheap -- is a minority position among generals and analysts alike. It’s also looking like a minority position for congressional Republicans. It’s not just John McCain who’ll be taking it in the pants – there are plenty poison pills for every Republican running for re-election in 2008.
So, unless President Can’t-Ride-A-Segway somehow pulls this off, McCain is over.
~Jack McEnany
Also see: McCaining, McCain (Again)
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