2008 Presidential Campaign

After reading Christopher Buckley's new book, Supreme Courtship, I am now convinced that McCain and/or his staff may have gotten the idea to pick Palin from that novel.

In the book, the President, frustrated by his bad relations with Congress, decides to appoint an attractive female TV Judge to the Supreme Court thinking the Senate won't have the guts to oppose someone so popular with the public.

After all, she says down home things like:

I am just a plain ole gal from Plano, Tx.

Buckley's book was released over the summer as McCain was considering his Vice-Presidential options.

It will be interesting to see if things work out as well for McCain as they did for President Vanderdamp.

For all of John McCain's claims about always putting country first, I defy you to find anything in this argument for Palin that even hints that McCain thinks that given the country's needs and problems at the moment, that Palin is the best person to serve as Vice President.

It doesn't, because he doesn't.  He didn't give a damn about the country when he picked her.  He only cared about increasing his chances of getting elected.

Ok, so here's a sit down with both McCain and Palin, in which they try to write off her statements regarding Pakistan as "gotcha journalism."

Ok, so on the one hand, they are trying to excuse this because it was a casual encounter with a voter at a pizza place, and reporters are "taking her comments out of context." On the other hand, they are claiming that to lay out your specifics plans for how you would use military strikes is to telegraph your plans to terrorists.  So isn't a pizza place with reporters present one of the WORST places you could do that?

So which is it?  Is this a harmless comment in response to a constituent?  Or is such a comment a dangerous breach of national security? 

It seems to me they are trying to have it both ways.  But by their own standard, she was telegraphing our national security plays to terrorists.

This is pretty tough talk from Mark Halperin over at The Page:

Top Obama strategist Tommy Vietor unable to defend lie-filled Obama advertisements.

When do you suppose the last time he used such strong language to describe Republican dishonesty?

If you needed any further proof of just how phony the entire McCain campaign as really become, check this out:

McCain is has web ads up declaring victory in tonight's debate before it has even taken place.  Or for that matter, before he even acknowledged that he had called off his "suspension" and would actually be attending the debate.

Here's a link to the ad.