WashPost: McCain “brightens at the thought of the STE” and pledges ” ‘We’re gonna get the bus out sooner rather than later… we’ll have some fun.”
Senator McCain was the beneficiary of an extraordinarily upbeat assessment of his new, leaner campaign in Sunday’s Washington Post. Below is an excerpt of the long (two-page) article). It should be noted, in fairness, that the author opted to begin the story with the words, “Sickly. Weak. Feeble.”
While those three adjectives are among the worst that Team McCain would wish to see, as the lead of a story from a major media outlet, the overall tone of the piece is overwhelmingly positive. This article was titled “John McCain in Manchester, Waiting for his Bus to Come In”:
After doing the usual candidate-speak about the importance of the New Hampshire primary, he brightens at the thought of the “Straight Talk Express,” the bus he used to help win the state. It was a means of transportation, yes, but also the physical embodiment of a brighter, more optimistic time.
“We’re gonna get the bus out sooner rather than later,” he pledges. “And I promise you’ll be invited on board and we’ll have some fun.”
“One of the things we haven’t done well is we’ve been bouncing in and out of places,” he says. “Like a day, day-and-a half here. What we’re going to do is spend three, four days here. Then three, four days in South Carolina or Iowa. We’ve got to have more consistency. We’ve got to spend more time in each state.”
It sounds like 2000 all over again, McCain running from behind, rolling down the highway on the STE, with the boys on the bus. Which is cheaper than a plane.
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