No Joke

I was thinking a couple of weeks ago that McCain should throw some liberal around the neck of Barack the way Obama is trying to weigh him down with running for a Bush third term.

What I came up with was that he should say that Barack is running to complete George McGovern's first term. It's a nasty tag - big loser, big liberal, bad memory for Dems. Very margnializing of Barack as the Magic Man.

But McCain has come up with one of his own.

In an interview to air later tonight on Nightly News, McCain tells NBC's Brian Williams that while Obama might criticize him for representing a third Bush term, Obama seems to be running for a second Carter term.

Carter is pretty good, because he's widely viewed as a failed president, and he's still out there embarrassing the nation on a real time basis. And for Dems who like to label Bush a failed president, Carter provides a little cover - see, any party can provide a bad leader - life goes on.

Sen. Obama says that I'm running for a Bush's third terms. It seems to me he's running for Jimmy Carter's second. (LAUGHTER)