I spent the weekend alternating between refinishing furniture and babysitting small grandchildren. There's nothing like watching a deliberately unsleeping five month old at 4 AM -- unless it's running a detail sander for an hour straight -- to get a body to thinking. What I found myself thinking about was how much good we could do our eventual nominee if we could provide solid oppo for the fall. There are some brilliant folks here: some with deep knowledge, some with insight, some with a talent for pithiness. Harnessed in some way, we could provide our candidate with oppo that, essentially, would be wiki'ed, focus-tested and ready to rock and roll.
Here's what I'd like to do, starting with this diary:
In your comment, list -- succinctly -- a handful of scandals, quotes or actions by John McCain. If you see one you like in a comment already, rate it. This is brainstorming, folks, so don't hold back. It's OK -- maybe even better -- if it's obscure; who had heard of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth before August of 2004?
I'll take what comes and rank it by ratings. If this diary doesn't get much traction (who am I after all?), I'll come back until there's a fairly good list. Then we can take the best ones one by one, flesh them out, and then distill them into good, wet-clay-stuck-to-the-sheetrock oppo.
Let's give our candidate some ammo to go with our amo. Who's in?