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Everybody's piling on, just like they did with Obama. "Obama should do this! Obama needs to do that! Here's what Obama should say!" Obama knows what he's doing, though. He's going to ignore all of it, except that from people he trusts and knows well.
But here, I say: keep up the good work, guys. You're just going to continue to confuse her. (Because you know she's reading Salon, along with all the other newspapers in the world.) I have no pity for her--she's a witch and a harpy--but it's clear that she now has an inkling that she's out of her league, and while she's learning to cover that up, it's kind of late now that it's all been broadcast everywhere that she can't name a freaking single Supreme Court decision other than Roe v. Wade.
And sadly, I can't suggest she do what Obama's doing. Because, really, she doesn't have anyone she can trust to give her good advice. Is she to blame for that? Yes, absolutely. If I feel bad for anyone, I feel bad for all the women, everywhere, who are hired not for what they can actually do but because their employers thought they would make them look good, and who have had careers stalled or destroyed when things didn't turn out that way for one reason or another. John McCain is one of them, but like Rebecca Traister, I'm not going to gin up any sisterly sympathy for her -- given all the backstabbing and political intrigue she's engaged in in her life, what she's doing to her own daughter, and that one long lie of a sneering, smirking GOP speech, I'd say karma is a bitch.
