Elephants eating their own
The National Journal solves the riddle of the puzzling Freedom’s Watch ads running in NY-25 and NY-29:
Freedom’s Watch, a conservative group with ties to the Bush administration, launched a multimillion dollar ad blitz Wednesday to pressure lawmakers wavering in their support of the Iraq war to stand strong behind President Bush.
So Randy Kuhl and Jim Walsh are political cannon fodder. Bush doesn’t care what they think or even whether or not they get re-elected. It’s all about making The Decider look good. In this case, making The Decider look good means voting to prolong the occupation of Iraq, which will lead to more American deaths, more Iraqi deaths, and, in all likelihood, early retirement for two Republican rubber-stampers.
Well, well, well. So the Decider *is* the Divider after all. I’ve said it before - when they start eating their own, it’s all over but the crying.
I’ll buy that Freedomswatch thinks that those ads will pressure Kuhl and Walsh. But I don’t think they’ll work. At some point the self-preservation instinct takes over. Kuhl and Walsh are near that point.
Kuhl’s already signaled that he’ll vote with The Decider in September, though. That’s what that op-ed in the D&C was about, presumably.