Monday, September 22, 2008

McCain Playing with the Queen of Hearts

Another conservative is feeling very uneasy about John McCain. This time it's George Will who writes in The Washington Post:
"Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama."

Will criticizes McCain's impulsive, reactionary and very un-presidential calling for the head of SEC Chairman Chris Cox with little regard for the facts. He goes on to say:
"Conservatives who insist that electing McCain is crucial usually start, and increasingly end, by saying he would make excellent judicial selections. But the more one sees of his impulsive, intensely personal reactions to people and events, the less confidence one has that he would select judges by calm reflection and clear principles, having neither patience nor aptitude for either.

It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed?"

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