but are we going to look back on the mccain campaign as being as big a debacle as bob dole 96, or dukakis 88? it's pretty to think so, though it's hard to be so hopeful and have such a sense of humor about it when the world is teetering on the brink.

every day, the prospect of mccain-palin pulling this thing out scares me a little bit more.

I'm not sure what he was trying to achieve. It may be like a Hail Mary pass, but I can't imagine who he thought might be downfield to catch it.

The whole thing was just dumb grandstanding. Either that, or he REALLY didn't want to go on Letterman that night, and like a stupid episode of "Three's Company," an innocent little ploy gets mistaken for something else, and the next thing you know everyone's running around thinking that one of the roommates is dying of cancer and has 24 hours to live. Hilarity ensues.

The McCain Campaign's been using a Defibrilator to jumpstart their momentum for short bursts of time.

CLEAR!!! Nominate Sarah Palin!

CLEAR!!! "Suspend" the Campaign!

It may re-establish a pulse for awhile, but the patient is fading fast.

to JM's apparent erratic campaign is to first distract from his positions on the war, the economy, deregulation and voting with Bush at least 90% of the time. Look at the polls. One would think with all the blunders of the last two weeks BO would have a substantial lead, but that is not what we are seeing. Their philosophy is to keep the polls close and hope for something to happen late in this election cycle to give them enough boost to pull the upset.

I don't believe the tactic will work, but what other choice so they really have? A conventional campaign would have left them buried long ago.

stating the obvious.

No one can accuse Madden of actually committing journalism.

of course a McCainiac would never admit the boss hurt himself beyond repair. And no real journalist would be a stenographer for an unnamed source.

There was a way to make this "hail mary" work, but it wasn't the way McCain played it.

He's mostly saying he's standing up to Obama and the Democrats, which elicits the response of "duh."

However, he SHOULD have said he was standing up to Bush. He SHOULD have said: Senator Obama claims that I would merely constitute a third Bush term, but I've demonstrated a distinct difference between myself and the President, while it's Senator Obama that wants to back Bush's attempt to drastically expand government at the expense of the American taxpayer.

It may still have failed, coupled as it was with the ridiculous notion that he couldn't do two things at once (debate AND work on the financial crisis), but it would have at least made sense.

I'm curious how the heck they could say he "kicked" ANYONE around when it appears painfully clear that all he did was pander to the Republican Conservatives, blow up the delicate negotiating process, meet with NO Dems, only Republicans (so much for reaching across the aisle) and get out of

Dodge when he realized he was imploding his own campaign.

Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between "spin" and "twisting in the wind," but I'm sure they'll try to put lipstick on this pig.