I can image the McCain Campaign is working on a way out for Sarah Palin in the VP debate. Maybe, that was why he was so mean and cantankerous last night.. Nah, he is no Mr. Congeniality even on a good day. Ed Schultz has the inside scope on this.
Capitol Hill sources are telling me that senior McCain people are more than concerned about Palin.
The campaign has held a mock debate and a mock press conference; both are being described as “disastrous.” One senior McCain aide was quoted as saying, “What are we going to do?” The McCain people want to move this first debate to some later, undetermined date, possibly never. People on the inside are saying the Alaska Governor is “clueless.”
McCain made a big mistake in choosing Sarah Palin-who without a teleprompter-can’t string two coherent sentences together. In this debate, she will have to know chapter and verse all the issues that are currently facing our country-or she is going to fall flat on her face again-as we witnessed on the Katie Couric interview. Which is exactly why McCain must be scrambling because, in Palin’s case, she doesn’t have a clue on any domestic or foreign policy at all. Daniel Larson had this to say on McCain’s mulligan.
Six days to the VP debate, that is. With the first call for Palin to step down from the ticket from a former supporter, and you have the makings of total disaster for the McCain campaign in this next week. The word disaster was honestly the first that came to mind when I heard the VP announcement as I was driving back to Chicago. I remember saying, to no one in particular in my car, “Total disaster.” Because I don’t want McCain to win, I wasn’t concerned that choosing Palin was a disaster for his chances, but I nonetheless felt a sense of wonder about it in the way that insane, futile attacks on fortified positions might inspire a certain strange admiration.
After the Republican convention, I joked that the convention theme was, “Can we have a mulligan?” It seems to me that the McCain camp would very much like a do-over on the VP selection, but they know that if they dump Palin now it will definitely be over. If he dropped her now, or if she resigned for whatever reason, the combination of media triumphalism (the narrative would be, “so much for experience and judgement!”), liberal Schadenfreude and conservative despair would be so great that McCain wouldn’t stand a chance.
It will be interesting to see if McCain will weasel Palin out of this upcoming debate, either way, there is no saving face at this point..
