Like so many other instances in this campaign, the recent revelation about McCain's deep ties to the gambling industry is noteworthy for the harsh light it will certainly cast on right wing ideologues as mindless right wing ideologues incapable of taking a critical view of their own party. Thomas Schaller puts it well:
The problem here is that if a certain Democratic nominee were tossing around $100 chips--especially if that nominee had left his crippled first wife for a wealthy heiress with whom he now owned at least seven homes and 13 cars--that Democratic nominee would be labeled an out-of-touch elitist.
But not McCain. He, of course, spent five-and-a-half years in a place where the only bet he could placed each day was whether he'd be alive the following day. So he gets to live a Monte Carlo lifestyle with political-electoral impunity.
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