Willing Suspension Of Dysfunctional Campaigning
For a candidate who is currently at war with the media, McCain certainly seems to believe his own press clippings if his suspension of campaigning is any indication. Considering how badly the last week and a half has gone for McCain and how badly and unpredictably he has coped with the crisis so far, perhaps the best thing for his chances in November would be to suspend campaigning indefinitely. The striking thing about this move is that McCain is now shouldering a large part of the responsibility for whatever legislation comes out of negotiations in Congress and he is pretty much staking his campaign on its passage and its contents. Put it down to another example of McCain’s habit of winging things and not having a plan going from day to day, and then consider what it would mean for how McCain would govern.
Of course, if the debate is cancelled, administrators at the University of Mississippi say that they probably won’t host it again later.
Update: Apparently, it wasn’t clear that this post was ridiculing McCain as a fool, so let me say it more plainly: McCain is a fool.
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George Will was right when he noted that McCain does not have the temperament to be president. His campaign, of late, has been one reckless move after the other. All this most recent move does is make Obama look like the grown up in the race. McCain has compounded his mistake by suggesting that the vice-presidential debate be postponed (probably forever) and that Friday’s debate be rescheduled to that time and locale.
The longer this campaign wears on, the scarier McCain, and a potential McCain presidency, gets.
Y’know, these days, every time I read anything about the McCain campaign, I keep hearing the old Woody Wodpecker cartoon theme in the back of my head. Don’t know why. Just is.
I just wish any of this actually reflected badly on McCain in the minds of the rank and file conservative voter. I’m in Arizona so I’m surrounded by right wingers and they will NOT listen to anything. Within seconds I’m bombarded with, “where’d you hear/read that, CNN, MSNBC, NYT?, Oh well that’s your opinion, etc.” John McCain is going to be our president because no one will hear bad news. Around the office I’m hearing that Obama is the one who doesn’t want to debate on friday. You think there’s anyway at all I could get people to believe otherwise if their trusted sources of information are saying what they want to hear and telling them anything else is toxic thought?
The direction of the economy was a total disaster for McCain, so he put up another Hail Mary. I think it will help him. Many Americans clearly want to believe in McCain, and I think they give him this week to reboot. Plus he gets to totally break with Bush on the bailout.
The correct response from Obama would be a very forceful:
1. This is America (darnit!)
2. Our democratic process stops for no one and nothing, not even a little money problem.
But his campaign seems to be unable to do anything remotely bold.
Making rawshark’s evening better:
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/129015.html
And yes, Watchmen will kick a$$.
I would go along with Username and state that this reckless move will actually appeal to the electorate and so crazy McCain strikes again.