Comments on: It’s Not McCain’s Fault?

By: cinnamonape

cinnamonape — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:36:54 +0000

I think that soon Palin will start to undertake an insurrectionist campaign. She’ll conspire with the McCain advisors and start to solidify her own “base support” looking off to the 2012 Primaries. This will, of course, be utterly disastrous for the McCain campaign. But she’ll be viewed as the one that actually fought, while McCain whimpered.

It’s gonna be very dirty inside the campaign over the next three weeks…and people like Rove and Schmidt and others will be looking to the future. They’ll lie to McCain, cut him out of decisions, and marginalize him. The press should be looking for this sort of coup-de-tat.

By: Badwater

Badwater — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:04:56 +0000

That’s true. McCain may have been exposed as a troll, but a vote is a vote. After all, the Republics were content to let Larry Craig just ride it out.

By: dosido

dosido — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:29:07 +0000

With the wars, bailout and the stoking of the mobs’ anger, they’re really trying to ruin the next four years in advance.

By: Ari

Ari — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:07:28 +0000

I disagree that his reputation is irretrievably damaged in the Senate. Republicans will take him back.

By: puravida

puravida — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:40:06 +0000

I’m trying to understand McCain’ behavior from another standpoint:

He must know the election’s lost. It’s an inescapable conclusion now. In addition to the polls, Republican pundits, columnists and party leaders are bracing for it.

So how does McCain think he’ll survive in a Senate where his reputation is so irretrievably damaged? Does he really think he can work with a President Obama after this? There’s nothing for him beyond November 5th. Hell, even Lieberman may be forced to abandon McCain at that point as he cozies up to the Democratic majority.

Of course, being ostracized is nothing compared to being reviled forever if Obama is assassinated by a whackjob McCain/Palin supporter.

So, where does this go for McCain? Who’s really pulling the strings here? Does Rove really want to win this badly? Even Rove understands this election is just part of the battle, not the war.