Karl Rove

Krugman (NYTimes) is on target when describing McCain's dishonest campaign now being silently orchestrated by the shadowy Karl Rove, master of failure and keeper of the doom.

McCain had better grow a spine, and quick. He needs to disassociate himself totally from anything that smacks of the Bush administrations lengthy list of failures. Had he the courage to speak out against the Bush warmongering and admit that our involvement in Viet Nam was a colossal blunder, comparable to our careless, foolhardy invasion of Iraq and that he now sees the light and wants to take America in an honorable direction, he might even get my vote.