Posted by Jed Lewison on Mon Jul 14, 2008 at 10:25 AM Pacific

A positive development

Ben Smith reports some on the right are taking umbrage at the New Yorker cover:

Some on the right get, and don't like, the New Yorker's joke. Ed Morrissey writes:

[H]aving this on the cover shouldn’t just offend the Obamas, but also conservatives who have a number of substantial issues with Barack Obama.

The risk to the right here is that a vote against Obama becomes seen as a vote not for those policy differences, or for John McCain, but for bigotry. That's a storyline the New Yorker was advancing.

I think Ben's take is absolutely right. Plus, with the right wailing about this, they may become unwitting allies in fighting the smears on Barack Obama. Either that or they will expose themselves as purveyors of the smears.

Whatever the case, I'd rather have them sputtering on and on about this stuff than us. Our job is to communicate this fundamental formula:

McCain = Bush = Status Quo

A positive development

Ben Smith reports some on the right are taking umbrage at the New Yorker cover:

Some on the right get, and don't like, the New Yorker's joke. Ed Morrissey writes:

[H]aving this on the cover shouldn’t just offend the Obamas, but also conservatives who have a number of substantial issues with Barack Obama.

The risk to the right here is that a vote against Obama becomes seen as a vote not for those policy differences, or for John McCain, but for bigotry. That's a storyline the New Yorker was advancing.

I think Ben's take is absolutely right. Plus, with the right wailing about this, they may become unwitting allies in fighting the smears on Barack Obama. Either that or they will expose themselves as purveyors of the smears.

Whatever the case, I'd rather have them sputtering on and on about this stuff than us. Our job is to communicate this fundamental formula:

McCain = Bush = Status Quo

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