NPR: Krauthammer's Hopes For McCain Dim

Krauthammer's Hopes For McCain Dim

In today's WP, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer says Barack Obama is likely to win the election. He compares Obama's political strategy to that of conservative hero Ronald Reagan in 1980 and says John McCain has thrown one too many Hail Marys.

You can't blame McCain. In an election in which all the fundamentals are working for the opposition, he feels he has to keep throwing long in order to keep hope alive. Nonetheless, his frenetic improvisation has perversely (for him) framed the rookie challenger favorably as calm, steady and cool.

Maybe Krauthammer was stung by McCain's recent comments to the Des Moines Register ed board about Georgetown cocktail party-goers? (Though, as the WP was quick to point out, that whole notion of schmoozy DC is really pretty dated.

-- Evie Stone

1:19 PM ET | 10- 3-2008 | permalink

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