Palin was another Dan Quail pick because she is such a magnet for ridicule

Really? She was ridiculed as soon as she was announced. She was ridiculed after a magnificent convention speech. When those who wanted to destroy her couldn’t find things they made things up.

She was ridiculed and being destroyed long before she gave a couple of bad interviews.

Your angst should be directed at the media and the pro Obama crowd who think style is more important than substance and that no job is above affirmative action employment.

I would love to see some big guns roaring, but it doesn’t freak me out that we’re not seeing that right now. Two weeks ago the right was afloat on Palinmania and a sense of invincibility. Now we’re lining up to cash in our chips.

I don’t know how to run a campaign. I do know that there is a month left before the general election, and we’ve just seen what can happen in half that time.

I also know that we face an enemy vastly larger than our own forces: a shameless, lying, complicit MSM; millions of foreign dollars funding Obama’s campaign; hoboes and zombies voting early and often in Ohio.

McCain is a guy I trust to run my country. I think I am going to trust him to run his campaign. The man’s no pussy, and he knows what he’s doing. I’d love to see fireworks, but sometimes you don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.

We might lose this war, but we sure as hell won’t win it by screeching at McCain and proclaiming our imminent doom.

If Obama gets elected, there is no one else to blame but the Republican Party. They are going to allow the nuts to run the nuthouse, and American earners will pay big, while the public trough sloppers will be buying big screen tv’s with their new big welfare checks.

The “character quality” common denominator for the average American individual is dropping like a rock, which will make life much easier for the ruling liberal elite.

God help us.

McCain is like the losing team in the Super Bowl that was just happy to be there. He feels that it is good enough that he got to be the nominee, and even if he loses the general election, his career is complete because he reached the pinnacle of his party.

What he fails to realize is that tens of millions of people have placed their faith and trust in him and he’s failing that trust.

fossten on October 2, 2008 at 2:22 PM

I agree with someone above about the analogy in your first paragraph. And your second paragraph is what is really grinding me.

For the past three weeks, McCain’s done little but drop turds. Fine, he did well in the foreign-policy part of the debate. No one is surprised. I can’t believe that he’s getting out-flanked by Obama on the economy. Last time I checked, Obama didn’t have “noted economic expert” next to his name. For one thing, the GOP should own the energy issue, but it’s not even being discussed. And as far as the bail-out is concerned, McCain even has the goods on Obama and too many Dems. What’s his problem? It’s past too late.

Someone wrote elsewhere that McCain needs to understand that if his slogan really is “Country First,” he has to win this election. Yet he’s been a dead man walking for three weeks. He’s not going to be able to make up so much ground. The cement on the narrative is hardening in the swing states, and McCain’s picking his nose. Americans are enraged, McCain has villains, but he won’t name their names. The media are telling the Dems’ version of the story before he’ll rise from the dead and grab the microphone.

If I’m right, McCain’s been saving up for a killer ad campaign that starts after the debates.

But I am starting to get nervous…
ClintACK on October 2, 2008 at 1:59 PM

You are probably right ClintACK and he has the video crew to accomplish that but it won’t work as all his other superb Ad’s have not to date. At best they keep McCain in a holding pattern.

Why? Because he is not delivering the message in person. He has to personally deliver it to Obama mano e mano. Otherwise it is just standard electioneering that voters eyes glaze over. It has to be delivered on a national stage at the next debate. A punch list of all the the grievances listed above by myself and others. These are not cheap shots coming from a campaign in trouble, these are are a statement of the facts that Obama and crew were, embrace and plan for the future. If we are going to lose I want it to be the Alamo.

If he waits longer than the next debate it will look like desperation and he will be mocked for it. He will deserve it.

But McCain cannot STOP being McCain.

Unless SOME miracle happens we are indeed DOOMED!

eaglewingz08 on October 2, 2008 at 1:59 PM

Ironically, the only answer that would seem to make a huge difference is if Palin responded…

“You’re absolutely right! John claimed one thing and should have carried it out. If I were President, you’d see not only that horrible monstrosity killed, like the VAST majority of Americans want, but I’d also start enacting non-taxpayer funded changes first to see if those would help. No sense shovelling tons (LITERALLY) of taxpayer dollars at a problem, when the bill doesn’t even solve what was a DEMOCRAT created problem!”

“But, but… democrat created…?”

“That’s right! Here’s how it all played out…”

You don’t win by whining. That’s the others side’s shtick.

geckomon on October 2, 2008 at 12:53 PM

No, you win by doing… which is why we’re raising the question in the first place!

Nice analogy!

Maybe he pushed hard for the nomination because he thought it was his due, but doesn’t think the Presidency is. Maybe he’s following some weird Senate tradition that he paid his dues and deserved the nomination.

JiangxiDad on October 2, 2008 at 1:03 PM

McCain is like the losing team in the Super Bowl that was just happy to be there. He feels that it is good enough that he got to be the nominee, and even if he loses the general election, his career is complete because he reached the pinnacle of his party.

What he fails to realize is that tens of millions of people have placed their faith and trust in him and he’s failing that trust.

And we serve up, the 2nd worst.

We are officially racing to see who out-worsts the other.

Is that a word? Out-worsts????

Obama or die….paint the whitehouse black…the age of Obama! Healing you can feel – as the bullet hits the bone!

Nonetheless, we do seem to be running out of time now.

If I’m right, McCain’s been saving up for a killer ad campaign that starts after the debates.

But I am starting to get nervous…

The MSM campaign of lies is beyond anything I’ve ever seen before. I’ve lost respect for nearly every so-called journalist — even many of those on Fox. Thank God for Jim Lehrer, but I just don’t see any young journalists of his caliber and professionalism.

thirteen28 on October 2, 2008 at 1:22 PM

Thanks for echoing this. It’s precisely why McCain should have complained vehemently about the conflict of interest. The issue isn’t whether she’ll be objective tonight. The issue is how can you even argue that she’ll be objective tonight when she was deceitful before? Her credibility is shot.

Her failure to disclose the conflict of interest is unbelievable–and it wasn’t her call to assess her own objectivity. Whether she ultimately moderates tonight or not, the only thing out of Ifill’s mouth should be an abject apology and a withdrawal from serving as moderator.

“Would you like another sh1t sandwich with that lemonade, Senator McCain?”

“Sure, Boehner and I are real connoisseurs by now…”

Note to McCain: It’s better to light a candle in the form of a campaign ad than to curse the darkness

Racist.

Moron.

Marcus on October 2, 2008 at 1:36 PM

LGF put up Miller’s quote on McCain and Palin hanging out with Couric and Whoopee and The View and taking these shots.

There seems to be this etiquette that her and John are adhering to … they’d better realize they’re in enemy country, for God’s sake. These people establish their bona fides, and indeed their seating positions at Sally Quinn and Ben Bradlee’s Christmas party if they take her out. They’d better get it together

I’m glad Miller is on our side