Beating the Dead Horse that is the McCain Campaign, & PBN

21. October 2008 by admin.

PBN: This is a real conversation I had with my oldest daughter.  She didn’t get the movie channels.

I’ve been trying to think of a decision McCain has made since gaining the nomination that I agree with.  Or even that seemed to make sense.

His choice of Palin for veep is excretable.   Coming on the heels of his attempt to paint Obama as inexperienced it seemed either painfully hypocritical or woefully ignorant.  I understand his need to shore up his conservative base, and his desire to add a woman to the ticket to try to woo disgruntled Hillary supporters, but a small town mayor and first term governor under investigation for abuse of power was the best he could find?  Was Elizabeth Dole giving Bob’s Viagra a run for its money when he called?

I wish I could have been in the Straight Talk Express when the stock market tanked the day McCain made his fundamentals and strong statement.   That had to be the day team McCain realized the universe hated them.  The bewildering decision for McCain to “suspend” his campaign to inject himself into the well developed Congressional/Administration negotiations only added additional chaos and implied that McCain was making decisions by the seat of his pants instead of after careful deliberation.  That’s a stupid but understandable trait in a fighter pilot.  It’s potentially disasterous for a man leading the most powerful country in the world.  I still suspect that his attempt to postpone the original debate was an attempt to co-opt the VP debate and avoid the chance that Palin would embarrass herself more than she already had before a national audience.  Nothing I saw or read indicated that McCain’s presence positively influenced the eventual outcome, and the rebellion of the House Republicans underscored his inability to forge consensus and lead his own party.

Drop Bill Ayers already.  No one who doesn’t already support McCain cares.  Today “Weather Underground” is a spelunking report, not a feared terrorist organization.  Ayers doesn’t even have the street cred of having done time for his crimes, prosecutorial misconduct notwithstanding.  If a passing association with a member of a discredited organization espousing a discredited dogma is the best the anti-vetting department of McCain’s campaign could come up with against Obama, then the best argument against voting for Obama is he is too damn boring to be president.

I still don’t like Obama much.  His message of Hope and Change comes across as hypocricy and catering.  His famed charisma must be hiding behind his elite intellectual snobbishness.  But I’m still going to vote for him, because at this point I can’t find a reason not too.

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