Yesterday, John McCain and George W. Bush visited the flood-damaged state of Iowa together… only, not together.
For whatever reason, they showed up on the same day. And for obvious, 29%-approval-rating reasons, they were very careful to never be anywhere near each other the whole time. They wouldn’t even visit the same towns at the same time.
The whole thing seems very awkward to me, and it’s not the first time Bush/McCain has attempted such an organized, separate-but-equal, fundraising/photo-op effort. They often go to the same places, or say the same things, on the same day — but make sure never to be seen in the same place with one another. What possible value being in the same state as Bush at the same time has for McCain is beyond me. It’s obvious that they tried to orchestrate some kind of “Look, the Republican party cares about you” press blitz, but it seems unnecessary.
Oh yeah, and there is that little matter of putting an enormous amount of strain on Iowa’s law enforcement officials, who are already overburdened and undermanned in the face of a disaster. They didn’t really need to be escorting odious politicians around to their various simultaneous photo-ops, which is why Iowa’s governor asked McCain not to appear in the state on the same day as the president — a request McCain ignored.
McCain’s people deny that they were asked to stay away from the state, but they would probably also deny that they were there with president Bush at this point.
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