Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Biden exploited McCain's vegetation and the absurd lengths to which it has taken him when mentioning in his speech that, while most of the citizenry contemplates decisions in one location, the Arizonan has his choice of seven.  

McCain's statement exposed his remote citizen status well beyond George Bush the Elder's surprise over the existence of supermarket scanners.  

While McCain displays ignorance on how many houses he owns, he insists that the economy is in good shape and states that the Iraq War is going well while also stating an intent to remain there for one hundred years or more if necessary, comparing such troop deployment to U.S. commitments in South Korea, Germany and Japan, an ultimate "apples and oranges" botched attempt at analogy.

Joe Biden during the multi-candidate sessions known as Democratic presidential debates distinguished himself by his shrewd ability to frame issues and deliver succinct responses.   Fellow candidate Obama was shrewdly taking notes, and this Biden skill was assuredly a factor in his selection.

Perhaps the best way to nail McCain and the neoconservative cause he serves and turn the campaign decisively against Republicans is to do what Biden did in his Springfield speech, making his point with the kind of stirring and potentially successful repetition evidenced by such past winners as the primary mode Obama with his message of change and hope.

This sounded remarkably close to that enunciated by John F. Kennedy in 1960 as he espoused positive change and leadership for the sixties.

If Democrats use Biden successfully as Obama's point man they can box John McCain and the current Republican regime into a corner.

As much as McCain would like to run away from Bush, on the basis of polling consistency the most unpopular White House occupant in history, the Arizonan has boxed himself into a Catch-22 that needs to be skillfully exploited.

Any pretense of being a "reformer", a point tirelessly and futilely being raised by McCain and his surrogates, is presently untenable.  Biden noted the 95 percent consistency of McCain's support of Bush and his disastrous programs.  

To gain the Republican nomination McCain traded in any soul he may have previously possessed to gain the votes and monetary support of the neocons, who seek continuity of the ruinous Bush-Cheney policies.

What happens if McCain should, in the words of Shakespeare, "protesteth too much" and seek to separate himself from the Bush-Cheney era of ruin?  

What happens if McCain should, in the words of Shakespeare, "protesteth too much" and seek to separate himself from the Bush-Cheney era of ruin?  

The shrewd strategic move is a full court press to handcuff McCain to Bush.  The closer the Democrats can come through speeches and ads to making the two names synonymous, the better the chance to co-opt the vital center of the American electorate and secure not only a Democratic victory, but a landslide of the historic dimensions of Roosevelt over Landon in 1936 or Johnson versus Goldwater in 1964.