According to Matt Drudge, McCain would still prefer to run against Hillary as an easier target.
Steve Schmidt, who I’m texting with right now, is figuring how to keep hammering Obama with the elitist theme.
Hillary can’t raise the enormous dough that Obama does on the Internet with his well over one million contributors. The hatred of her on the Republican side is much more deeply ingrained. She has no appeal to independents, which is where this election will be won. The Clinton mishegass continues and deepens. And Obama is a better talker — he rescued himself on the Wright fiasco, though he still has some serious problems there — whose candidate skills keep improving.
Now every politician has learned from this incident that you have to act like the press is around even when the press isn’t around.
Still, McCain has some real advantages. He is a real expert on national security. He’s the most famous Vietnam War hero in the country. His surge strategy in Iraq was the right approach, which the White House finally adopted after years of fumbling. And even though the Republicans are extremely unpopular now, McCain, who has many years of dealing with reporters on the record, in mostly uncontrolled situations, has good combat skills and high credibility with the Scots-Irish backbone of much of the country.
