McCain-Palin: Consistency is for Pussies.

Someone didn't read the TPS Report.

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Didn't anyone tell John that a baracuda makes for a most dangerous pet? They're uncontrolable and can turn on you in a heartbeat.

Didn't one of McCain's flacks say sometime back that John McCain didn't speak for the campaign?

Ahhhhhhhhhh, team work!

Greg wrote: "The McCain campaign can't seem to stop thrashing around in the thicket of mixed messages it keeps blundering into each day."

These aren't "mixed messages" and the McCain campaign isn't "blundering". They know exactly what they are doing: they are sending two different messages, targeted at different audiences. McCain is sending a message to "mainstream" voters that he is a reasonable and moderate person running against Obama because they have different ideas about policies. Palin is sending a message to the right-wing extremist dittohead base that Obama is a dangerous scary radical commie Muslim terrorist.

This is all about McCain's ego. Politico says this morning that JM's advisors and Palin are all advising to go after the Wright association and JM won't do it.

I don't think JM won't do it because he believes it would be wrong, but because his own vanity and desire to maintain some shred of his dignity prevents it.

Obama gets another draw tonight and the McCain campaign starts slowly packing it in.

good cop/bad cop?

or bad cop/corrupt cop?

Speaking of Arabs, and an Arab longer of tooth than McCain, Ralph Nader did an excellent interview with Ray Suarez (sp?) on The Newshour last evening.

Nader's populist wisdom was sharp, and he was articulate, and not in the least hyperbolic. Nader is older than McCain and looks and thinks thirty years younger. McCain's age and health, physical and mental, are definately issues in this election.

Palin, on the otherhand, is an apt q.e.d. for the Greek observation: Morality without knowledge is dangerous; knowledge without morality is deadly,,,,, goes for the Bushies as well, in spades.

I wish the Obama campaign would make a new ad that leverage McCain's comments:

"John McCain has been asking us 'Who is Barack Obama' and now he's given us the answer: "I admire Sen. Obama and his accomplishments" "He's a decent family man, citizen" "I have to tell you he is a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared (of) as president of the United States"

Thanks John!

Over the past few days I've been thinking about her behavior, and starting to wonder if anyone has any control over this woman.

Maybe some of you can give me some input on my thoughts so far...

Assuming that McCain actually does want to tone things down (not too much of a stretch given how it's been working out for him), what power does he have to make her?

Or to put it another way: If Palin is the Bulldog, what is McCain's leash?

Let's imagine for a moment that she wants to keep doing things the way she's doing them no matter what McCain says. What kind of pressure could he put on her? He can't really make threats to her political career. She's a superstar in the religious right, where McCain holds no sway. She came from nowhere (Sorry Alaska), so worst case scenario, she goes back there and does her thing with slightly more notoriety. McCain has weak support from his own party (and it gets weaker every day), and it will be non-existent when he loses, so he can't hold the power of the (leaderless) GOP over her head. The only thing he can really do is kick her off the campaign, which is equal to conceding the election.

Does any of this make any sense? Given what we know of Palin's political career so far, does anyone doubt that she would throw McCain under the bus if she felt like it?

I created a new account, and after fiddling around and an increasing amount or errors, suddenly everything works! Huzzah!

I'm off to create my first blog post!