The front page of Wednesday's Style section in the Washington Post carries an article titled "Attaboy! The Fetching Doggedness Of John McCain." Reporter Libby Copeland repeatedly crowned McCain as the "king of doggedness," that "He's used to waiting, sometimes for years, to get out of prison camp, to fix immigration and campaign finance and Iraq, to get into the White House." What does that make his GOP opponents? Ho Chi Minions?
Copeland tips her liberal-media hat by noting to readers that she asked McCain if he would pick liberal New York mayor Michael Bloomberg (who just abandoned the GOP) as his running mate. [!] He says it's premature to talk about running mates. Copeland doesn't seem to understand how fantastically off-putting that choice would be to most Republicans.
But she does note that McCain's resemblance to Democrats could be a wee problem, as she talks with attorney Neil Rossman, who turned out for a McCain event:
It's a character thing, says Rossman, a Democrat who once vowed never to vote Republican and says that "I'd shave my head and move to Burma" before voting for Mitt Romney. The truth is, Rossman says of McCain, "I don't consider him to be a Republican. . . . As a matter of fact, he's almost a Democrat." (This is praise McCain does not necessarily want, not while he's battling a perception within certain corners of the Republican Party that he's not conservative enough.)
