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...Bush team, for its part, was doing everything it could to stay out of the way and let McCain hang himself. "Amazing!" declared a delighted senior Bushie. "McCain is self-immolating. Why do anything but watch?" Although they have insisted all along that they had nothing to do with Robertson's phone calls on Bush's behalf, they sent out the message through surrogates that Robertson should quiet down, stay off TV and off the attack. "It's the first time in the history of Christian Fundamentalism that Jerry Falwell has said 'No comment' two days running," quipped Michael Cromartie...
...felt McCain had attacked them and not just their nominal leaders. Most voters never saw the full text; they heard only the parts of the speech where McCain named names and threw fire bombs. Evangelicals have never been a monolithic group; many of them have their differences with the Robertson crowd and are far more tolerant than the Bob Jones wing. And yet many took McCain's salvo personally, as an attack on their convictions and their role in the Republican coalition. Bush's 9-point margin in Virginia the next day owed a lot to the fact that Christian...
...Bush team doesn't pretend that it never worried about how McCain's speech might play, especially in states like New York and California. Had it been more about the entrenched Establishment in general and less a personal salvo against Robertson and company, the speech might have worried them more. "There are artful ways of making this work," chirped a senior Bush official, "but McCain is inartful." Bush allies delighted in pointing out the inconsistencies that have been piling up for a while now. McCain attacked Bush for speaking at Bob Jones University, even though Congressman Lindsey Graham...
McCain was just sloppy and tired, his aides say, when he began talking about Falwell's and Robertson's "evil influence" on the G.O.P. Though he later tried to say that he had been joking, that this was all part of his Luke Skywalker routine, the comments were much edgier than that. "You're supposed to tolerate evil in your party in the name of party unity?" he asked rhetorically. This is often the way McCain talks. He divides the world between good and evil, and when he is talking about someone he truly reviles, like his Senate foe Mitch...
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