Jonathan Alter Contemplates a McCain Bunker Presidency

Here’s the kind of writing that can get your comment moderated right out of a FireDogLake comment thread: guns and suicide thoughts about a Presidential candidate and his campaign team: 

The real question is what all of this might mean for a McCain presidency. The list of troubling portents is growing long: repeated campaign staff upheavals reflecting poor management skills; abrupt reversals on big issues like tax cuts and relations with Russia (where he was superhawk one day and superdove the next); shameless pandering on a gas-tax holiday that even his own economic advisers think is a joke; confused handling of Social Security that annoys all sides of the debate; bogus charges (e.g., Obama is causing high gas prices, Obama didn’t visit wounded soldiers because he couldn’t take the press) that undermine his integrity; and an angry, bunker mentality among aides that one GOP operative, fearing excommunication from Team McCain if identified, describes as "lacking only a Luger and a cyanide pill."

Lovely imagery from your anonymous source, Mr Alter.  

Is it time for a blogger ethics panel? 

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