Are the GOP money men entirely happy with their candidate? Or do they find his positions as confused and incoherent as they look to... well, to little old me.
My headline is the actual title of an Op-Ed piece in yesterday's Wall Street Journal: Is John McCain Stupid?
In his lead, Daniel Henninger points out:
Is John McCain losing it?
On Sunday, he said on national television that to solve Social Security "everything's on the table," which of course means raising payroll taxes. On July 7 in Denver he said: "Senator Obama will raise your taxes. I won't."
This isn't a flip-flop. It's a sex-change operation.
After reviewing further flipflops on Social Security, and several more such severe policy reversals, Henninger asks the money question:
What I'm asking is, does John McCain have the mental focus, the intellectual discipline, to avoid being out-slicked by Barack Obama, if he isn't abandoned by his own voters?
I hope questions like this, from the conservative WSJ, might encourage some of the Chicken Littles at Daily Kos.
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