Brian Kilmeade is the FOX and Friends funnyman, always joking and ad-libbing, often speakings so fast it's hard to understand him. But this morning 8/12/08 it was clear that he thinks John McCain has come around, shedding his maverick persona in order to unify the Republican party around his candidacy.
With video.
For context: the couch crowd consisted of Kilmeade, Gretchen Carlson, guests Margaret Hoover ("GOP Strategist")and John Avlon ("Political analyst" and author of the book Independent Nation, how centrists can change American politics). They were discussing whether the Clintons might have a case as advanced by Clinton supporter and FOX News contributor Howard WOlfson that John Edwards may have cost Clinton the nomination.
There was speculation that Clinton surrogates may be subtly undermining Obama so that Clinton can run again in 2012; Hoover added that they are continually highlighting how viable a candidate she would have been. (But she's indignant that the Clintons, of all people should be scolding anyone for hiding sexual infidelities.) The Clinton supporters are upset, per Avlon, that their coronation was stolen from them, and the Clintons need to help defang the PUMA contingent at the convention in Denver.
Hoover asserted that the Democrats are splintered and are not doing the whole unity thing;" the Republicans were more fractured when McCain got the nomination but now they're way together supporting their nominee.
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