McCAIN'S "BOY ENVY"

When it comes to understanding what's happening with John McCain, and others, as they confront Barack Obama's popularity NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd nails it in her Tuesday Op-Ed piece. Here's a couple of quotes:

Now John McCain is pea-green with envy. That’s the only explanation for why a man who prides himself on honor, a man who vowed not to take the low road in the campaign, having been mugged by W. and Rove in South Carolina in 2000, is engaging in a festival of juvenilia ...

The Arizona senator who built his reputation on being a brave proponent of big solutions is running a schoolyard campaign about tire gauges and Paris Hilton, childishly accusing his opponent of being too serious, too popular and not patriotic enough.

Even his own mother, the magical 96-year-old Roberta McCain, let slip that she thought the Paris Hilton-Britney Spears ad was “kinda stupid.”

Read the entire article yourself. It says much about McCain, and status quo politics.

- Mark