Matthew Yglesias is usually pretty careful, but this McCain riff is Dowd-level mind reading -- time to break out the swami:
After all, throughout all his flipping and flopping and back again of the past ten years, the "cares about people in
economic pain" persona is one he's never tried on. And I think he's never tried it on because it runs contrary to his entire schtick, which is all about finding causes greater than ourselves, salvation through nationalism, etc., etc. On some emotional level, he probably thinks a woman who needs to declare bankruptcy because [she] racked up massive credit card bills while her uninsured husband was dying of cancer should just grin and bear it the way he did as a POW. (emphasis mine)
Update 1/23 8:11 PM: Yglesias concedes error in a much more reasonable followup analysis of why McCain might be vulnerable on the economy.
Stick it to the man!
Posted by: n | January 23, 2008 at 04:42 PM
i blame it on the jews.
Posted by: josephfisher | January 23, 2008 at 09:20 PM