Dem Governors Gone Wild

To follow up on Bill Kristol’s report below, it looks like Mark Warner was moved earlier not just to let Deval Patrick bash McCain in prime time–but to get a back-to-back-to-back attack from Democratic governors Patrick, Ted Strickland, and Brian Schweitzer. Warner’s speech was a paean to bipartisan good government, the criticism of John McCain was brief and mild:

Two wars, a warming planet, an energy policy that says let’s borrow money from China to buy oil from countries that don’t like us. How many people look at these things and wonder what the future holds for them? Their children? Their country? How many? In George Bush and John McCain’s America, far too many. Let’s be fair, some of these challenges were inevitable.

Warner goes on to say that “John McCain promises more of the same. A plan that would explode the deficit that will be passed on to our kids. No real plan to invest in our infrastructure. And his plan would continue spending $10 billion a month in Iraq. I don’t know about you, but that’s just not right. That’s four more years that we can’t just afford.” Criticizing McCain on the deficit and spending billions in Iraq was pretty weak compared to what the three Democratic governors who took up the first half hour of prime time said. Ohio’s Gov. Ted Strickland went after McCain personally: