A good little McCain smear

NY Times writer Paul Krugman used a recent McCain piece about health care reform to paint him as a scary guy to fix the financial crisis. Here's the quote Krugman lifted:
"Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation."

The smear is that effective and clever. What McCain was talking about was allowing interstate (or cross border) health insurance as was done with interstate banking. No one in their right mind think interstate banking has anything to do with the current financial meltdown. Krugman simply cut the context out to jab McCain.

I like this technique. The Republicans have been doing this to Democrats forever, and it works.