McCain jumps the shark, loses cool amongst white males
It's going to get better in the polls from here when the talk around the watercooler gets going tomorrow... McCain made a faustian bargain in picking Palin and the disrespectful tone he took in the debate while directly insulting the intelligence of the Top Dog from Harvard Law, saying he did not know the difference between tactics and strategy, will cause extreme BLOWBACK.
The Dramatic Irony of that statement coming from the all tactics and no strategy McCain Campaign was astonishingly apparent to the whole audience at my debate watching party. The double irony is that McCain was technically wrong - David Petraeus called the Surge a tactic. And then McCain said Pakistan before Musharef was a failed state? - They've had the bomb for years. You can't get things like this wrong when you consider foreign policy your strong suit - this is common knowledge. Independents and Republicans fully acknowledge that Obama is a smart man - they just might not agree with him on some of his positions - it makes McCain look dumb to attack his intelligence.
What a week for McCain - to dis Letterman while getting caught having make up applied, screw up the stock market on Friday by trying to take credit for the bailout with his dumb stunt, suspend his campaign, try to call off the debate, and then have to show up and then pull this line of crap in the debate, makes middle of the road white males think McCain is behaving like a primadonna punk, or a premature sore loser - take your pick - he's the kid in kickball who calls a "do-ever" when he kicks a foul ball and the man in golf who constantly asks for mulligans... you just don't want to hang with this guy.
And for the rest of Americans that don't get this stuff... Obama looked and acted 1000 times more presidential than McCain in the debate... plus Letterman was devastating. Who's going to trust a guy who lies to Letterman and gets caught live? It was like when Eric Cartman busted his funny-fuse... you just can't write this stuff. The professionalism of Olberman and Letterman to maintain composure and continue the show was phenomenal, when that hilarious McCain makeup feed came in.
The polls will move. Obama is going to break 50 and that will come from the Independents who think McCain is a clown.
The Dramatic Irony of that statement coming from the all tactics and no strategy McCain Campaign was astonishingly apparent to the whole audience at my debate watching party. The double irony is that McCain was technically wrong - David Petraeus called the Surge a tactic. And then McCain said Pakistan before Musharef was a failed state? - They've had the bomb for years. You can't get things like this wrong when you consider foreign policy your strong suit - this is common knowledge. Independents and Republicans fully acknowledge that Obama is a smart man - they just might not agree with him on some of his positions - it makes McCain look dumb to attack his intelligence.
What a week for McCain - to dis Letterman while getting caught having make up applied, screw up the stock market on Friday by trying to take credit for the bailout with his dumb stunt, suspend his campaign, try to call off the debate, and then have to show up and then pull this line of crap in the debate, makes middle of the road white males think McCain is behaving like a primadonna punk, or a premature sore loser - take your pick - he's the kid in kickball who calls a "do-ever" when he kicks a foul ball and the man in golf who constantly asks for mulligans... you just don't want to hang with this guy.
And for the rest of Americans that don't get this stuff... Obama looked and acted 1000 times more presidential than McCain in the debate... plus Letterman was devastating. Who's going to trust a guy who lies to Letterman and gets caught live? It was like when Eric Cartman busted his funny-fuse... you just can't write this stuff. The professionalism of Olberman and Letterman to maintain composure and continue the show was phenomenal, when that hilarious McCain makeup feed came in.
The polls will move. Obama is going to break 50 and that will come from the Independents who think McCain is a clown.
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Already broken 50 in Gallup and Rasmussen.
September 28, 2008 7:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
To call McCain's picking Palin a "Faustian bargain" is an insult to Faust. When Faust sold his soul to the devil, he made a written bargain and got what he paid for. McCain didn't bargain, he gambled. The Palin pick wasn't a calculated choice of an anti-abortion conservative, it was a bet-the-house gamble on a young, unknown anti-abortion conservative with a pretty face. Thank God his gamble is blowing up before the election so he won't be given a chance to gamble with the country.
September 28, 2008 7:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL! Good point about an insult to Faust. Faust was intelligent, even if he (as McCain) wasn't enough of a big-picture thinker.
September 29, 2008 1:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
If the Palin debate become a fiasco, look for the campaign to replace her shortly thereafter.
September 28, 2008 8:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Having to replace his (unvetted) VP because she turned out to be incapable would be as damaging as a debate fiasco in and of itself. His whole campaign is riding on this debate, there is tremendous pressure on Palin. If she even squeaks by he is still in the running because expectations are so low. But if it's really bad it will be almost impossible for him to rebound I think. But I am taking nothing for granted and will always keep caution with my optimism. The GOP has a big bag of dirty tricks and tactics.
September 28, 2008 9:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
I mean Faustian in the sense that McCain didn't pick Palin himself, but he sold his soul to the right to get the nomination and thus he got her, and now he's stuck - there's no way they can replace her - does he go for a moderate ridge, liberman or pawlenty and piss of the far right religious base to get the middle back? If he alienates the base, he risks losing in a landslide.
September 29, 2008 10:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Here is how I think the week will go and Palin will be out by Wed...
http://www.politicalbase.com/profile/jnail/blog/&blogId=4394
September 29, 2008 11:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
What you're saying is that, instead of keeping Palin and losing, McSame will opt for dropping Palin and losing.
The only question is what the difference in the margin of loss will be. And only one of those will be other than speculation.
September 29, 2008 2:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not only was most of middle America able to witness his 'stunt' about suspending his campaign, and his attempt to get out of the debate. Apparently McCain's campaign will only say he "hopes" to make Wednesday's vote on the bailout. HOPES? The man who mere days ago was (allegedly) willing to suspend an entire campaign, his AND Obama's if he had his way?
Sometimes the cynic in me isn't so sure, when the Obama/Biden campaign keeps noting that "Americans are smarter than that." But I'm really beginning to believe that McCain is whacking them over the head enough that even the stupid ones--at least, those who aren't die-hard McCain voters--will notice.
September 29, 2008 1:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not in my wildest dreams did I think the Congressional Republicans would kill the bailout after McCain's stunt... now, this is the same sort of ammo democrats gave newt to start the repub revolution... America is more behind the bailout than the press indicates... it is going to look like the Republicans are causing doom for the market.
September 29, 2008 9:01 PM | Reply | Permalink