Georgia for McCain

CSM and Halperin think that the USSR (ahem, Russia) and Georgia war has helped McCain more, politically. This is sort of annoying - the MSM assumes that if you "talk tough" then you win on defense. Nevermind all of Bush's long, outspoken support for Georgia probably made Saakashvili actually think that we would do something to help. And now Bush and McCain ('we are all Georgians') talk tough - but what are they doing? If McCain talks to Saakashvili every day, what is he telling him? And if Bush was hanging out with Putin in Bejing, why did it take Sarkozy to broker the cease fire?

Just because Obama's on vacation he can't have a good response? It seems to me someone who called for restraint on both sides (recognizing Georgia provoked the conflict by stomping on pro-Russia movements in Ossestia and Abkhazia) should get some props. Why doesn't he attack the GOP for being "all talk."