Yesterday's Matt Lauer interview with McCain is rightfully catching the ire of pundits for a quote he makes, basically asserting that it's unimportant to think about bringing troops home.
What I find more interesting is the way McCain framed the success of the surge. Blah blah, of course it's significant that he distances himself from Bush, but he did it in such a way that screams of coordinated messages between his campaign and the White House. Specifically, Bush will continue to simply be himself and push to make sure his predecessor will stay in Iraq, and McCain will draw subtle differences in policy yet continue to hold the same overall views and strategy...I mean it's almost hilarious how similar McCain's position is on foreign policy (Iraq) with that of Bush regardless of his theatrical "distancing" quotes.
So this delusional, warped good cop bad cop game is emerging with McCain and Bush, respectively. McCain gets to be the smarter, saner, more at-home-with-the-voters cop, and Bush gets to be that nasty, unwavering, jaded cowboy who's failed foreign policy doesn't need to be changed, it simply needs to be resurrected by a more capable Maverick type.
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