Month: September 2008

Non-existant according to Tapper:

…the dynamic would likely be as it is right now whether or not McCain had been in Washington, DC.

Crowley has a theory as to why. Chris Orr offers his own thoughts. My own view is that the Hannity interview doesn’t count as it was an infomercial. And Gibson was pretty easy. Couric may have rescued her career with that interview. In other words: There’s no Palin decline. There was nothing to decline from. There is no there there but ambition, fundamentalism and a bizarre personal life. And the pressure of her countless lies – especially about her personal life – must be beginning to tell. My own view is that she is such a massive joke she will kill the ticket; but if McCain asked her to withdraw, it would so destroy his own record of judgment, he would also lose. So we have two scenarios: either they struggle on, keep the Schmidt fireworks to distract from reality, and hope that racism and Christianism will somehow get them to the finishing line – or we start all over with Romney. But it’s getting too late to switch GOP candidates.

I don’t think the Palin problem is fixable. She is who she is: an unqualified fundamentalist liar with no knowledge of or experience in national domestic or foreign policy. And McCain had absolutely no idea who she was when he picked her.

Mickey Kaus:

Obama’s the calm guy and McCain is the chicken running around with his head cut off.

"It just proves his campaign is governed by tactics and not ideology. In the end, he blinked and Obama did not. The ‘steady hand in a storm’ argument looks now to more favor Obama, not McCain," – Craig Shirley, Republican consultant and former McCain adviser.

Yes, I’ll be live-blogging. Stay tuned.

Zubin Jelveh graphs Palin’s answer on the bailout:

Yeah: I have no more idea of what she was talking about than she did.

Oxford, England, 4.56 pm.

And the English language.

An alternative version of the pageant video. As often as they try to remove it, the people will replace it.

"I’m 65 and I’ve been covering politics for a long time. That is one of the most pathetic tapes I have ever seen from someone aspiring to one of the highest offices in this country. And that’s all I have to say," – Jack Cafferty on the Couric-Palin interview.

It is simply impossible for any sane and reasonable person to vote for John McCain when this fool and liar and utterly unqualified person could take over at any moment. I stand by my statement that this Palin decision disqualifies John McCain outright from being president of the United States. Until she is removed from the ticket, no sane conservative can vote for this farce.