Do you really think this puts you in a good light???

This is the latest moveon.org ad against John McCain. Do you really think this makes moderates want to join your cause?

Let's face facts - both parties are controlled by the worst of people: the liberals on the left and the ridiculous social conservatives on the right. Typically the Democrats are a bit better at moving towards the center (well, in the Clinton days) than Republicans (who are so self righteous they believe everyone wants to live like a 1950's dogmatic Catholic). This ad though doesn't really make me think highly of Democrats.

I personally find this ad sickening. It just screams whiney liberal. Even the mother's voice and tone is a squeaky whine that I find annoying. No one wants to see their kids put in harms way - but does this feel like a loving Mother or does it just seem like an over-reaction? C'mon - no one really believes McCain wants a 100 year war. If you do then you are just stupid. How can you paint a guy like McCain as a war-monger? You can't. A guy who served in the military and went through all he did has more respect for war and its outcomes than someone who just views it on the tube and bitches about it. Guys like this realize that all war is a crime and they use it when it is necessary to defend a way of life.

I think that liberal anti-war folks are stuck in a mindset that believes we should never have to go to war. That's quite a bit different from someone like a McCain who probably thinks that war is always an option and a reality that one hopes to never have to choose. So when you talk about a general election and moderate Americans, I can't help but believe that they tend to think more like a McCain than an anti-war person. No one wants to go to war, but I think that most people recognize that sometimes we have to do it.

BTW - supporting this whole clusterfu*k of a war in Iraq does not mean that everyone is happy about having to be there in the first place. How we got there and how we make it work now that we are there are two totally different discussions.