Fingering The Wright Card

Rick Davis revisits the legitimacy of using Wright:

John McCain has told us a long time ago before this campaign ever got started, back in May, I think, that from his perspective, he was not going to have his campaign actively involved in using Jeremiah Wright as a wedge in this campaign. Now since then, I must say, when Congressman Lewis calls John McCain and Sarah Palin and his entire group of supporters, fifty million people strong around this country, that we’re all racists and we should be compared to George Wallace and the kind of horrible segregation and evil and horrible politics that was played at that time, you know, that you’ve got to rethink all these things. And so I think we’re in the process of looking at how we’re going to close this campaign. We’ve got 19 days, and we’re taking serious all these issues.

John Lewis never said that. He said that the atmosphere at several Palin-McCain rallies was reminiscent of the camp followers of Wallace. And Lewis was right. Using John Lewis as a reason to unleash another round of thinly-veiled racism and guilt by association would, however, be a fitting end to the McCain campaign. And to his entire reputation, or what's left of it.