'THIS IS NOT Luke Skywalker here," said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), discussing his friend and Senate colleague John McCain's second run for the presidency. "This is a totally different campaign."
Graham was looking for a way to reassure his fellow conservatives that they no longer had anything to fear from McCain. His choice of metaphor is one of those windows into the fundamental cultural gap that separates hard-core conservatives from the rest of humanity. To most people, who think of Luke Skywalker as a hero battling an evil and immensely powerful empire, Graham's implication would be seen as an unmitigated insult. In the world of the GOP elite, though, it's a form of praise: No, no, don't worry, McCain's with the empire now.
That column goes on to observe that McCain, the "good" "maverick" "straight-talking" republican, has made himself over into a pandering, flip-flopping joke of a man who doesn't deserve anyone's trust.
Much the same thing I've been saying here for months if not years.
No one should waste their time blogging, since it is an unpaid activity and no one other than your mother and maybe a cousin or two will be reading it.
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