[svcw]

Oh come on.
What not just trow in the towel now and forget about the election.
Good grief, go to Washington do your stuff but keep the ads on and get ready for the debate.
JM is an idiot if he thinks Barry would suspend his campaign.
Is JM going to let Palin be Palin and keep with these rallies?

[Defiant]

One thing I have noticed is that this guy Schmidt is one hell of an advisor, way way better than Rove ever pretended to be. He knows how to fight back, and hit at the right vulnerabilities. He has been right on target with all he has done, and, given the shortcomings of his candidate, has done as well as can be imagined.

If this is McCain being McCain, it may be a blunder. But if it is undertaken with the agreement of Schmidt that this will not hurt the campaign, then I would trust that judgment.

[null and void]

What not just trow in the towel now and forget about the election.

Long term, not a bad idea.

Whichever party happens to be left holding the bag when he house of cards collapses will get the blame.

[fightinJAG]

Palin should go to Washington with McCain and be with him every moment of the process. An opportunity to sit ringside at this moment in history is, in fact, priceless.

McCain knows Obambi is in a lose-lose here. Time after time (9/11, for example), McCain has set the leadership agenda. Obambi is also a Senator and should be in Washington doing his job. If he’s not, that’s up to him and voters can evaluate which leadership style suits the nation. If he does, he did so because he followed John McCain. ‘Nuff said.

As for throwing in the towel, get a grip. First, John McCain has never cared more about getting elected than about doing what he thinks is right for the country (even though, like all humans, he is sometimes wrong on what is “right”). Secondly, the election is about leadership and experience and McCain is LIVING that; campaigning on it is a far second.

The debates are fairly worthless except as media fodder and McCain has been practically begging Obambi to debate him and appear in townhall meetings over and over again, all summer. For Obambi now to be so set on debating while this crisis is ongoing, well, voters need to evaluate his judgment in that.

As I posted upthread, McCain knows he is likely to be President in a few months and he’s not going to let a bunch of yahoos back in Washington take the country down the drain, lay an egg for his administration and set a trap for him to boot, while he’s out on the stump. No way.