Turnabout?

There was a saying, when I was a kid, "I'm rubber, you're glue, whatever you say sticks on to you." I started thinking about that when John McCain's campaign started using the following:

Step #1: Obama is associated with a terrorist.
Step #2 Obama believes in terrorism.
Step #3: Obama is a scary guy to become President.

Let's try this on, instead:

#Step 1: McCain went on vacations with a guy, a felon, who went to jail for 4 1/2 years because he did something dishonest.
#Step 2: McCain had a fund-raiser in the living room of a guy who broke the law and went to jail for 4+ years and advocates killing people, and he pals around with him.
#Step 3: McCain hangs around with known criminals, both of whom broke the law and went to jail.
#Step 4: McCain likes to hang around with criminals, convicted felons, and would be very scary as President.

The only trouble is that the first is somewhat murky and not proven, mainly innuendo, and the second series of steps is based on an open published record of Keating and Gordon Liddy's convictions, sentencing and jail terms and McCain.

I submit neither has a leg to stand on, but the first is what's being used, stupidly, I believe, because it didn't work to hoist McCain's polling numbers, as part of McCain's badly-run campaign. Once again, it has proven that old maxim. If it doesn't work the first time to get the result you want, keep repeating it and you'll keep NOT getting the result you want.

In McCain's situation, it would be smarter if he stuck to the issues. But some terrible masochistic impulse must be at work here. I'll say this sarcastically, of course ... Maybe Obama's operatives have infiltrated McCain's camapaign and are channelling Rick Davis, Phil Gramm, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, and Schmidt to undermine McCain's campaign.