You can't fool the voters all the time

VDH has thoughts.

"So the same old, same old modus operandi: all sorts of surrogates in the Congress and press offer some pretty mean-spirited "outrageous comments", while St. Obama does his part to complain that McCain himself is doing exactly what his own supporters are in fact doing.

Call it Nixonian deniability of culpability, or call it Teflonesque or creating the necessary firewall—but it finally becomes as creepy as it is predictable, and I think all the voters cannot be fooled all the time."