This must be a proud day for those Virginia Republicans who overthrew John Hager and chose their “conservative champion” Jeff Frederick to be RPV Chairman. It was bad enough when he made one of the most embarrassingly offensive remarks of the entire cycle this weekend, comparing Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden, but it got worse when his woefully off-message antics caused the Republican nominee for President to spend valuable time explaining why he doesn’t matter and spinning it away to something different:
“John Lewis is a person I admire, I have written about him in my books, but that is far different from some, frankly, individual in the Republican Party of the state of Virginia,” McCain said. “It’s outrageous, harmful, divisive and Senator Obama ought to personally repudiate Congress’s Lewis’s statement. It is not only connected to George Wallace but also the deaths of innocent young children in church bombings.”
“[Y]ou’re off base when you compare the two statements. One from a most respected member of Congress and civil rights leader and one from somebody no one knows about which we have repudiated continuously.”
“Don’t compare the two my friend…I am telling you, my friend, they are not comparable.
Nevermind that Rep. John Lewis speaks from a position of considerable authority on such matters, and that he was denouncing McCain campaign rhetoric similar to that espoused by Jeff Frederick.
Somewhere out there, John Hager is chuckling watching Senator John McCain do verbal cartwheels to get around comments made by RPV Chairman and purported “nobody” Jeff Frederick.
Enough is Enough Virginia 