Major Scaife-funded Wing-Nut Comes Out Against McCain

[scoobiedavis]

Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily is a major league right wing kook (I have monitored him over the past few years and have a succinct post about Farah and his role in the Scaife-funded Vince Foster activities--he's really scary). Nevertheless, Farah is big in right wing circles. Farah has written negatively about McCain for not being a true conservative. I have been skeptical about Farah's negative writings about McCain because usually wing-nuts like Farah eventually relent (clsoe to election day) and tell their readers to hold their nose and vote for a disfavored GOP candidate. But Farah column todaym he cuts off any possibility that that will happen. The column is titled "Why McCain Must Lose": http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=64647

[Texas Hill Country]

1. is he the one offering $1m for the Mobama "whitey" video? I read that some McCain hating repub

wants the Whitey video to sink Obama, because he is convinced that if Obama is the nominee, then McCain will be Prez.

[scoobiedavis]

4. Apparently not

I haven't read anything written by Farah about the matter and there's nothing from a quick Google search linking Farah to the rumor.

[Ashy Larry]

5. No, but he does have a video of Hillary and Janet Reno having a private moment.

He's holding onto it in case Hillary becomes the nominee.

[anigbrowl]

2. Like I've been saying, conservatives want to lose the election

They think they will regain control of the GOP and another Reagan will magically appear. They're willing to tolerate defeat in November in order to spend the next 4 years trying to sabotage a Democratic administration.

[ErinBerin84]

3. I'm conflicted about this.

On one hand, I definitely think that McCain needs a consolidated conservative base in order to win, but on the other hand, I don't want things like this increasing his appeal among independents and democrats. God, ABC world news just had a report on the "fine line" that McCain will need to walk among conservative republicans and moderates. I still hate that any news organization can actually talk about how McCain is "vocal about Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina", while failing to mention him eating cake with Bush when said catastrophe was taking place.

[featherman]

6. Let's try not to overthink the motivations of lunatic fringe operatives on either

side. The bottom line is that 50% of eligible voters don't vote at all. Whatever twisted justification that an extremist might come up with to vote this way or that way or not to vote at all is not of any great importance. The practical effect will be negligible.

For better or for worse the swing vote in this country is decided pretty superficially and inevitably goes to the candidate a few million low information voters decide they "like" better.