Another sign of a long year ahead

Want another sign that even political junkies may be saying uncle by the time the election season is over? Sen. John McCain has a television ad going up in New Mexico and several other battleground states. Look for it today and tomorrow.

According to the Associated Press:

McCain says in the ad that only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.

He was shot down over Vietnam and spent five years as a POW. He says some of the friends he served with never came home.

In his words: “I hate war. And I know how terrible its costs are.”

Let's be clear about this: It's June. The general election is more than 140 days away. Forget Labor Day. The Fourth of July hasn't even come and gone and it already feels like autumn, except it's hot outside and the primary was only Tuesday. So this is what it's like to live in a battleground state.

Besides McCain's TV ad, the Defenders of Wilderness will go up sometime soon with an ad attacking GOP U.S. Senate nominee Steve Pearce.

By the way, McCain's ad also is running in Iowa, Michigan, Colorado, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, Nevada, Wisconsin, and West Virginia.

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