"Pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd"???

At the 2000 Republican convention, Elizabeth Dole gave a speech in which she said Bush would end "Smash Mouth politics."

Nobody could figure out what the hell she was talking about. I assumed she meant the band Smash Mouth, but I could never figure out what it had to do with Bush.

Now a McCain aide has come up with a phrase that's just as bizarre.

In an effort to accuse opponents of smearing McCain, Michael Goldfarb said, "It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman's memory of war from the comfort of Mom's basement, but most Americans have the humility and gratitude to respect and learn from the memories of men who suffered on behalf of others."

"The pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd"?????

What the hell does that mean anyway?

This remark accompanied the claim that McCain's opponents are smearing him by accusing him of ripping off a story about his time as a POW. But the thing is, I have yet to see any blogs outright accuse McCain of ripping off this story. I surely made no such accusation. I didn't even hear about any of this story until I saw the article with Goldfarb spouting off.

So McCain's aides are trying to defend him from charges that apparently hadn't even been made against him!

If people start thinking McCain isn't being honest about the incident he described, it'll only be because his aides were so defensive about the story when they probably didn't need to be.

Is going around talking about "the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd" and defending McCain from accusations nobody made going to be their campaign strategy? McCain may have lost much of the role-playing game enthusiast vote right there.

(Source: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/18/mccain-camp-slams-skeptics-of-his-saddleback-cross-story)