McCain Mines McKinley Mojo
Published by mr.president June 7th, 2008 in AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, PRESIDENTIAL WANNABEES, BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN, JOHN MCCAIN, PRESIDENTIAL ASSASSINATIONS, PRESIDENTIAL MARKETING, AMERICAN HISTORY, US PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY, POLITICAL HUMOR, WILLIAM MCKINLEY, HISTORY IN THE NEWS, UNITED STATES HISTORY, WHITE HOUSE HISTORY, GEORGE W. BUSHOn to Buffalo! 
William McKinley’s last use in a contemporary campaign was Karl Rove’s mad scheme to present George W. Bush as the Big Mc of our generation, achieving solid Republican rule by persuading the scruffies to vote against their interests.
It worked with Bush, at least as far as the minstrel show 2000 campaign. It might again, but seems twice-musty for the already age-inflicted John McCain. The fighting Arizonan made the comparison anyway to USATODAY, dismissing Barack Obama as the new boy orator:
“If it was simply style, William Jennings Bryan would have been president.”
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