The McCain Campaign Has Officially Godwinized the Election

Awwww you’re sooooo cute, you actually think you can skip in and declare a winner.

In case you didn’t notice, most of us knew the guy was not willing to say who authorized it and most of us are inclined to believe he really is a true believer willing to take one for the team rather than expose his dear leader to criticism…

Keep trying though, it is cute.

Now I see why they are desperate to scare the jewish voters.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1031176.html

If he was a “true believer taking one for the team”, he would have said it wasn’t authorized, period. Think about it.

Look, I think Rand Rover is usually wrong about everything, but in this case, he’s correct. I don’t know if being “right” about this has any value; it doesn’t make any difference to me if the campaign authorized it or not.

:dubious: Yeah, yeah, they said the same thing about the push-polling.

This.

I think that conclusion is a misunderstanding of Godwin’s Law, which states:

Godwin doesn’t apply to winning or losing the argument at hand; it merely notes the asymptotic approach to certainty that Nazis or Hitler will be invoked as a debate continues.

So this is merely evidence that Godwin was right. :slight_smile:

What are you some kind of Godwin’s Law Gestapo or something?

I disagree. The Olympics, the World Cup, US Presidential Elections – there are only so many once-every-four-year entertainment packages to choose from; and this one is at a premium, I’d say.

You’re forgetting the corollary, which states that whoever made the comparison loses.