Russian Conflict Good for McCain?

By Eric Pfeiffer | August 11, 2008 12:11 PM | | Comments (0)

John McCain leads in most polls asking which candidate the voters trust most to be an effective commander-in-chief. So, the conventional wisdom would lead one to believe that McCain would benefit from an international crisis involving Russia. In fact, McCain got a lot of free airtime on the cable news networks this morning, when they cut to his press conference on the conflict.

But is the conflict coincidence or part of a more sinister strategy? The Huffington Post's Blake Fleetwood, a former correspondent for The New York Times, takes the conspiracy theory route, noting that McCain foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann has also served as an adviser to Georgia's government:

Can't your just imagine what happened. Randy lets it be known to the Georgian President that this would be a good time for Georgian troops to invade South Ossetia, which had been an autonomous territory for more than a decade. The Georgians didn't take much persuading, as they had been wanting to crack down with their troops for a long time. And with American/Republican support, what a better time to act?

Meanwhile Bush is conveniently meeting with Putin at the Olympics in Beijing and lets it be known that if Georgia attacks Ossetia, the US will not "mind" -- Wink Wink -- an aggressive response from Russia. Oh, we will talk tough, but we are not going to do anything..... And this mini crisis will be good for the Republicans in the 08 Presidential Election. Classic Machiavellian maneuvers as adapted by Cheney and Rove.


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