I’ve been amused recently by Hugh Hewitt’s boosterism for the McCain campaign. Not surprised: Hewitt is a partisan hack who will write anything. But amused. Earlier this week on a blogger conference call, Hewitt was merrily getting McCain to get into the latest piece of anti-Obama McCarthyism on the Ayers front. It’s worth reminding ourselves – and the McCain camp should remind themselves too – what Hewitt has written about McCain just in the last few months. He is not a McCain fan, to put it mildly. I’ve rounded up a few gems:
McCain is a very weak general election candidate, and if he was to win, would not govern as a conservative in any significant way.
To know John McCain in Congress is not to like him.
[C]onservatives have to know that Senator McCain is the anti-conservative …
A GOP vote for McCain … is a vote for an old warrior way past his prime …
[T]here are vast numbers of Americans who really are conservative, who really do vote their beliefs, and for whom John McCain’s anti-conservative politics and positions could not be redeemed by his personal story of courage and service or by his relentless and correct support for victory in Iraq and the wider war.
Senator McCain’s contempt for you is complete. React accordingly.
And my personal favorite:
Sen. McCain is a great American, he’s been a lousy senator and a terrible Republican. That’s the brand.
Really? A "lousy senator"? I don’t think even Obama and Clinton would go that far.
The Dish 