A new neocon/media ploy? The selling of McCain to save the war cause?

[NVMojo]

And W is going to McCain's state this week. Gee, I smell a stench of a different kind.

McCain has much riding on Iraq

Nov. 25, 2005

Florida: As demonstrated by the fierce White House counterattack in recent days on critics of the Iraq War, no one has more riding on the outcome of that war than President Bush, the man who sent U.S. forces into Baghdad.

But in political terms, the man next most affected by the outcome could be Arizona Sen. John McCain.

No one outside the administration has been more outspoken in arguing that there is no substitute for victory in Iraq than McCain, the Naval Academy graduate and survivor of years in a North Vietnamese prison camp. Other potential 2008 presidential candidates also support the war, but for none of them does it represent as large a gamble.

McCain’s unique credential as a presidential candidate is his hard-earned reputation as someone who rises above partisanship. While burnishing his lifelong Republican credentials by his support of Bush in two campaigns, McCain has established himself as the favorite of independents in poll after poll, while enjoying the approval of many Democrats for his advocacy of governmental reforms.

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