McCain catches right hooks

When Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama last weekend, he became the most prominent voice yet to join a growing chorus of disillusioned conservatives now openly criticising Republican candidates John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Last month, the Pulitzer prize-winning conservative columnist George F. Will compared Senator McCain’s response to the financial crisis with that of “a flustered rookie playing in a league too high” and described his temperament as “dismaying”.

Shortly after Will’s baseball analogy, columnist Kathleen Parker wrote in the right-wing National Review that, to her great disappointment, governor Palin was “clearly out of her league” and urged her to bow out as contender for the vice-presidency.

New York Times columnist David Brooks, himself a former National Review writer, then joined the fray, making the now infamous remark that Palin represented “a fatal cancer to the Republican Party”.

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