| "I don't think any of you have anything to worry about from McCain. He's not a smear-merchant"
I think this is generally true of him as a person, as it was of Bush Sr., but ultimately both decided that in order to win, they should hire the Lee Atwaters/Karl Roves of the world. I don't think a person hires Karl Rove unless they want him to do Karl Rove work. No one knows better than John McCain exactly what that means (see South Carolina 2000). |