Legal Commentary

McCain's Desperate Gamble

By Jeralyn

More and more media articles I'm reading tonight agree: McCain's suspension of his campaign was a political stunt, a second Hail Mary pass to deal with falling poll numbers and growing worry among voters that Sarah Palin just is not qualified or prepared to be Vice President and that he makes rash decisions out of self-interest and tries to pass them off as patriotism.

Here's one I like a lot, it covers almost all the bases: Sell! Sell! McCain is Tanking in the Boston Globe.

Between his grandstanding on the economy today -- claiming he was going to suspend his campaign because his presence was needed in D.C. to ensure a bailout deal was made, when he has little economic expertise and has never served on a banking committee, and then failing to arrive until mid-afternoon, well after Dems and Republicans had crafted their tentative agreement but finding time to appear on all three networks and still refusing to abide by his debate commitment tomorrow night -- and the woefully inept performance of Gov. Sarah Palin on the Katie Couric interview -- he's got to be toast.

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McCain has proven himself to be the ultimate opportunist who makes rash decisions. Sarah Palin was one, suspending his campaign and injecting himself into the bailout talks was another. These are not the traits of a leader. Obama, on the other hand, has been cool and collected, responding appropriately, coming across as honest and forthright while displaying the leadership skills and characteristics voters want to see.

If McCain doesn't show for the debate tomorrow night, he might as well kiss his campaign goodbye. As far as I'm concerned, the faster Sarah Palin returns to Alaska the better. That McCain would have such poor judgment as to risk our future by putting her in the second most important political position in the free world is, as I've said from the day he chose her, criminally negligent.

When McCain goes down, it won't just be on issues like the economy. It will be because he put his judgment at issue and has shown us multiple times now, between his Palin pick, his phony campaign suspension and his attempt to weasel out of the debate, that his judgment is a failure.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 26, 2008 (boomark / email).