If you can't beat em, hire em.

Karl Rove, newly minted adviser to the McCain campaign, tells the heartwarming story of Cindy McCain's adoption of a sick Bangladeshi daughter:




Which would be the same daughter that Rover referenced in the 2000 campaign thusly:

Rove invented a uniquely injurious fiction for his operatives to circulate via a phony poll. Voters were asked, "Would you be more or less likely to vote for John McCain...if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?" This was no random slur. McCain was at the time campaigning with his dark-skinned daughter, Bridget, adopted from Bangladesh.

It worked. Owing largely to the Rove-orchestrated whispering campaign, Bush prevailed in South Carolina and secured the Republican nomination. The rest is history--specifically the tragic and blighted history of our young century.

Ahh. The politics of the Bush administration. The Nation article (H/T, Think Progress) goes on to point out that South Carolina in 2000 led to a significant change in McCain, the Maverick was denuded by the defeat, and the man who opposed significant Republican initiatives on the separation of church and state, responsible fiscal reform, the confederate flag, became a reliable Bush supporter, cheerleader for the war in Iraq, and eventually turned his back on his principled opposition to the use of torture.

Ken Mehlman, the self loathing thinly closeted former RNC chairman, Rove, John Bolton, Jeb Bush, Dan Bartlett are all now supporting McCain. Maverick indeed....