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McCain's Low Road to Victory

With all that stacked against him, the only road that could take McCain to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the low road, one of the few pieces of infrastructure left in good repair by President Bush. His father paved it against Michael Dukakis, George W. Bush repaved it running against John Kerry, and the GOP repainted the dotted line in now-Senator Bob Corker's 2006 contest with Harold Ford. The path to success for McCain is to make the election a referendum on his opponent, by working in silent concert with 527 groups and media outlets such as Fox News to pursue character assassination, guilt by association, and, most of all, the effort to paint Obama as different, foreign, unlike "us," and dangerous (and did I mention that he's black?).

Really it is McCain's only hope to win. He has to win dirty and deeply divide the country into Black and White like the Tennessee GOP did with Harold Ford Jr. Otherwise he will lose. It is going to be really bad by October. The Republican 527s will take us back to the mid 1960s all over again.