McCain taking talking points from AM radio Hosts

"'Member the good ol' days" when the conservative media pundits on FOX and on AM radio took their marching orders from the White House, or from Bush's re-election campaign?

Well, those days are gone.

Now, information flows in the other direction. It has repeatedly amused me this year, to watch Sen. John McCain taking his marching orders from the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage. It would seem that every time McCain takes a dip in the polls, he turns on his radio to the latest talking points from the likes of Laura Ingram, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Neal Boortz.

See, I'm one of those liberals that likes to listen to conservative AM radio. It's partly for the sake of a good laugh, but it's also to see what they are up to.

During the 2004 election, and every day until the last year or so, conservative pundits received their talking points directly from the White House. It was obvious. Bush would give a speech laced with is usual catch phrases and the conservative media and FOX news would repeat it over and over again until it just felt like the truth when you heard it.

By contrast, McCain has been the receiver and repeater. Just today, after conservatives had been clamoring for weeks, McCain decided to mention that if Obama wins, we would have a Democratic Legislature and a a Democratic executive, thus, having Democrats dominate government.

A little slow on the uptake John?

It's not exactly a frightening scenario for me, but for many Americans, balance is very important. For that reason, it could be an effective argument.

But, what's funny, is that it may be too late.

On my way back from New Mexico on Sunday night (wonderful trip by the way), I heard one particularly mean spirited conservative radio host declare that McCain was "too stupid to get elected." After ranting on and on about how poorly McCain has campaigned, the host was forced to concede, on air, that perhaps McCain was "too stupid to be president."

But that didn't stop him from urging his listeners to vote for him anyway. And there is the difference between those crazies and everyone else: they would rather have a stupid conservative president (that worked out well) than a smart liberal president. Sort of dampens enthusiasm for their opinion. Huh?