Joe Klein is not one of my favorite media-types, but he is quite correct here:
Maybe I’m getting old, maybe it’s that I’ve seen this act so often before, maybe it’s that the people I talk to when I go out on the road really are having a harder time paying for things like health care, gasoline and college tuition, but I’m finding the Republican attempts to derail the conversation from the actual state of the country really depressing and disgraceful this year. They practice Orwellian politics of the crudest sort. They are trying to sell a big lie–that the election is about the social issues of the 1960s, or Barack Obama’s patriotism or his eloquence, or the “angry left,” when it’s really about turning toward a more moderate path after the ideological radicalism and malfeasance of the past eight years.
John McCain can’t claim the mantle of change when he is trying to conduct the Bush/Cheney 04 campaign — certainly not an honorable campaign, and like all of the BC04 crap he signed up for, undercuts the honor he so vociferously claims.