Senator McCain garnered significant praise on Tuesday, from Tom Bevan of RealClearPolitics – “A Moment for McCain?”:
Rarely do you see a columnist dish out such effusive praise as David Brooks does today for John McCain. It’s not an uncommon sentiment among political pundits to praise McCain for his stubborn honesty - a few months ago on RCP Ralph Peters wrote about McCain’s “integrity problem:” he has too much of it for his own good.
And now we see him rebounding in the polls, and the dramatically improving situation on the ground thousands of miles away in Iraq (see here, here, and here) continues to augment McCain’s stature as a leader and a man among boys (and a girl) in the presidential race this year. The fact that the progress in Iraq is being vastly underplayed in the media (see Peters again, and Benedetto) probably only helps McCain further among Republican voters who see an anti-war bias in the media.The winning of the White House has always been a story about a man meeting a certain moment in history. Is history conspiring to deliver a most improbable moment for John McCain? Or will he go down as man of great integrity whose quest for the presidency falls just short again this year as it did in 2000?
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