of course mccain isn't going to go after obama's crazy pastor

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Allah and Captain Ed at Hotair on McCain's refusal to hammer away at Obama's crazy pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.  Allah,

Update: Yeah, we’ll see about this. It’s not totally implausible: Maverick has enough trouble with evangelicals and, potentially, with Catholics via Hagee that he might be shy about going after a pastor, even one as scummy as Wright. Better to let the media handle it than give Obama an opening for the tu quoque.

Captain Ed,

Update (Ed): Makes sense to me.  Why should McCain go after Wright when Hillary’s people will do it first?  McCain can rise above the fray and talk about his own themes while Hillary and Obama fight it out in the streets.

Allah's closer to the answer, Ed has a contributing factor, but Allah is on the right track, but he has the wrong person, and the wrong political direction.  McCain is smart to keep his mouth shut and lay low on the topic of bad political alliances.

Not because of the obnoxious hater Hagee, though that could have a similar impact, but because of this, see it?  McCain still has Juan Hernandez on as an advisor.  If McCain goes after Obama for his shady political alliances, he opens himself up to defections by disgruntled conservatives who hate his RINO guts to begin with. 

All it takes is McCain to start hammering at Obama, and he'll have a handful of people going, "yeah, McCain's got plenty of room to talk with Juan Hernandez and other Open Borders/Amnesty advocates prominently on his campaign staff," and he'll have growing problems.  Immigration already nearly destroyed McCain politically once, and like the Amnesty bill itself, it could come back from the dead for round two.  Obama doesn't have to lift a finger to have that happen either. 

McCain is much better served to lay low, keep his mouth shut and ride the wave, pretend he's above the fray to woo squishy moderates and independents, let conservatives slap Obama and Rev. Wright around, and hope that they forget about the lousy company he keeps.  Most conservatives fell in line, he runs the risk of spoiling that by going after Wright.

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