Hating McCain

With the general election campaign in sight, the left feels an obligation to start hating McCain. I'm not sure their hearts are in it, though. After hating Bush so long, is there room in their hearts to hate anyone else as much or as deeply?

Then there is the distraction of Hillary (or Obama depending on your sympathies). Can the left hate McCain and Hillary while continuing to hate Bush?

They are trying but it's not McCain that they hate, it's being out of power for another 4-8 years. Look at their attacks. The primary one, 100 years of war, is based on a gross misrepresentation (a polite term for "outright lie"). The other ones - not knowing enough about the economy and being an opportunist - are pretty weak since they apply to Obama and Clinton at least as well as to McCain.

All they are really left with is McCain=Bush. Here's an example from Arianna herself.

Here's John McCain circa 2000:

"I'd institute a policy that I call 'rogue state rollback'...I would arm, train, equip, both from without and from within, forces that would eventually overthrow the governments and install free and democratically elected governments."

Now over seventy percent of Americans believe that "rogue state rollback" has not worked out that well.

Notice how she's hoping that no one will notice the difference between arming rebels and invading.

The other thing that the let is doing is resorting to name-calling. ex. McSell-Out and McNasty.

This is pretty weak stuff. It's hard to imagine Democrats mobilizing the troops to beat McCain when this is the best they can muster.

UPDATE: Anti-McCain groups lag in fundraising.

Democratic talk of an early, hard-hitting campaign to "define" and tar Arizona Sen. John McCain appears to have fizzled for lack of money, leading to a quiet round of finger-pointing among Democratic operatives and donors as McCain assembles a campaign and a public image relatively unmolested.

See? They just can't muster up much hate for McCain.