John McCain is rapidly distancing himself from a claim by senior adviser Charlie Black that a terror attack on the United States would help McCain in political terms.
Here's McCain at a presser today, responding to a question about his top adviser, who rather bluntly told Fortune magazine that the assassination of Benazir Bhutto "helped" McCain and added that a terror attack on U.S. soil "would be a big advantage" to McCain...
"I strenuously disagree," McCain said.
The funny thing about this is that while this is obviously a hideously tasteless gaffe for McCain's top adviser to make, the notion that a terror attack would help Republicans is something that's seen as perfectly routine when pundits argue it.
This odious argument somehow isn't seen as crude or distasteful when "disinterested" observers say it, which is bizarre, even putting aside the fact that it's probably outright wrong, given the multiple polls finding that the GOP's advantage on national security has long since evaporated.
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