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Friday McBush Bashing (Holiday Edition)

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

Not surprisingly, McBush’s poll numbers are slipping in key battleground states…

• Talking Points Memo, McCain Signs on For More Bush Bamboozlement!
• The Carpetbagger Report, Clark hits McCain — and hits all the right notes
• Kevin Hayden, McCain attacks Supreme Court, Constitution and Founding Fathers
• Crooks & Liars, McCain struggles to wrap up his own party’s support
• Kos, Random voters, McCain-style
• Kos, McCain can’t balance his own budget — is he really carrying over $100,000 in credit card debt? Or is it closer to $500,000? Either way, it seems odd…
• Crooks & Liars, McCain sees detainee ruling as one of the ‘worst’ in ‘the history of this country’
• John McCain Debates Himself on Supporting Bush
• Mike Stark, John McCain took a question from me at today’s townhall [I don’t know about this one — it seems a bit below the belt.]
• ABC, McCain Cancels Event with Controversial Fundraiser — No, Wait! — it’s on again (sort of, but without the controversial host)
• Crooks & Liars, McCain Caught Stealing Democratic Music
• Carpetbagger Report, McCain ‘promises’ to get bin Laden — with ‘people who can swim in the water’
• Firedoglake, McCain Losing “Maverick” Brand; Voters Most Likely To See Him As “Old”
• Kos, McCain’s Straight Talk & Support For the Military
• Feminist Law Professors, Information Is Power. In a somewhat related vein, Cooks & Liars, Wesley Clarke on McCain: ‘He’s changed his position on torture. Who is he?’
• Andrew Lebovich at The Washington Note,Guest Post: A Belated Note on McCain, Petraeus, and Civil-Military Relations
• Jeffrey Klein: McCain’s Secret, Questionable Record - Politics on The Huffington Post — which I think matters only for the reasons set out in Crooks & Liars, McCain’s secrecy over Navy records raises questions
• McCain’s Offshore Drilling Position A Flip From Three Weeks Ago (see the YouTube version of the flip — I’ve said all along that YouTube would kill McCain’s electability…

Full post as published by Discourse.net on June 20, 2008 (boomark / email).