McCain Attack Ad Featuring Joe Biden
When Obama announced that Joe Biden would be his running mate, the Republicans immediately released an ad showing clips of Biden criticizing Obama.
It's understandable that some bad words are going to fly between candidates when competing for nomination as presidential candidate.
Before reading too much into it, we should find out what Conservatives are saying about John McCain:
Pat Buchanan on McCain
"There's no doubt that McCain is going to be a War President. Can anybody see John McCain as sort of a peacetime Calvin Coolidge President? It's preposterous! His whole career is wrapped up in the military, national security. He's in Putin's face, he's threatening the Iranians, 'we're going to be in Iraq 100 years'...He makes Dick Cheney look like Gandhi"
Republican Senator Thad Cochran on McCain
"The thought of [McCains'] being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic, he is hotheaded, he loses his temper and he worries me."
Retired Four Star General Wesley Clark on McCain
"The truth is that, in national security terms, [McCain is] largely untested. He's never been responsible for policy formulation. He's never had leadership in a crisis, or in anything larger than his own element on an aircraft carrier or [in managing] his own congressional staff. It's not clear that this is going to be the strong suit that he thinks it is... McCain's weakness is that he's always been for the use of force, force, and more force. In my experience, the only tie to use force is as a last resort. When he talks about throwing Russia out of the G8 and makes ditties about bombing Iran, he betrays a disrespect for the office of the presidency."