McCain Blinks
| Fri Sep. 26, 2008 9:21 AM PDT
McCAIN BLINKS....So I guess John McCain has blinked after all. The pull of the klieg lights was just a little too enticing for him, so he's abandoning his role as Savior of the Bailout to head to Mississippi tonight for his first debate with Barack Obama. In possibly the most laughable comment of a laughable campaign, he claims that he's able to do this because negotiators are now making "significant progress" in talks that would have been finished yesterday if he hadn't parachuted heroically into Washington in the first place.
Still, give the old guy credit. He knows how to put on a show. If I were hiring a PR-Exec-in-Chief, he'd be my first choice.
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wrong...PR execs are paid to make their events seamlessly successful, with their success clearly based on the righteousness of the cause itself. McCain is the most ham-handed obvious showboater, whose only result is to call attention to his own desperation.
Kevin, I think you need to acknowledge that this move by Mccain suggests that he had no deal with the House Republicans and there was no 'game' being played. He simply made an impulsive decision to 'suspend' his campaign without thinking through the consequences (we've heard that story before).
Debate? I don't need no F-----
debate. I'm not an idiot and I know who I'm voting for. This "show" is for the stupid so-called Independents who are too dumb to consider the issues. They need TV to assess their candidate. I'd say if you don't know by now just stay away from the polls. Your kind of ignorance is what got us in this mess to begin with.
McCain believes he is important. He doesn't like it when anyone thinks that he isn't. If the spotlight won't follow him, he'll follow the spotlight. Problem is, lately he's been throwing his ass around to command center stage and then screwing up. Sooner or later, voters are going to notice.
"You'd think Sarah Palin would be the dealbreaker for undecideds."
I think this a lot.
But maybe it's more like, you'd think Palin would be the dealbreaker for all smart people.
Whether enough undecideds are smart people - there's the rub.
There's no better way to get a sense of the pathological denial about Palin than to read Kathryn Lopez. This one is a doozy:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OTUzNTM3MDk0MmI3ZWM1N2ZkZDAwZTFmMjA...
Weird doesn't begin to describe this.
Isn't our Great Hope supposed to be - revolting as it is - that Sage Crusties will look at McCain's and Palin's fibbing and floundering (esp. the Couric interview - Putin flying over Alaskan airspace, indeed!) and say, "My my, chaps, we can't let that bumbling pair mismanage and endanger the country we own! However much we detest that socialist colored boy, we'll reluctantly have to pull the plug on Mr. McCain and his silly girl" - ?
Do such people really have that kind of influence, would they do it if they could (which are already?), or do The Dumb Voters still hold the winning hand? All kidding aside, I'm serious.
Croatoan -- Of course Johnny Walnuts would know he won the debate. Sarah Palin, beyond being Comandanta de la Fuerza Militar Estatal de Alaska & GILF, is a seer. Did you see her sports report from Feb '88? She called the NLCS between the Mets & Dodgers later that year. She sees the future.
He simply made an impulsive decision to 'suspend' his campaign without thinking through the consequences (we've heard that story before).
Posted by: Mccain_No_Machiavelli on 09/26/08 at 12:26 PM Respond
I can think of somebody else who likes to make impulsive decisions without considering their consequences.
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