Up until now, McCain’s campaign has been unusually focused on the daily news cycle and winning the week. This monomaniacal quest for a good day’s coverage reached its natural endpoint today when McCain dominated the headlines … by stopping his campaign.
This is very, very weird.
McCain’s devotion to the cycle has included completely ignoring what’s going on in the wider world or anything that doesn’t affect how things will look on the evening news. McCain has lurched from absurd strategy to absurd strategy, from choosing a wholly unqualified woman to be his vice presidential pick, keeping her hidden from the press, dismissing the New York Times as a pro-Obama organization and now reaches its apogee with his contention that, in order to save the nation, John McCain, member of the minority party who hasn’t made a vote in over five months, must return to oversee the bailout plan. Okay, then.
I’ll be very curious to hear what the reactions are tomorrow. It’s too early to say how it’s going to play, although I can’t see anyone falling for such a transparently cynical ploy as this one. Will McCain be at the debates? Will Obama just be up there by himself? Will people really believe that McCain needs to put his stamp of approval on this bill, or that the Democratic Congress even wants him there? These are all interesting questions. I think we’ll find out here in a day or two.
Interesting times.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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It’s not as though he’s part of any relevant committee. As I understand it, he’s headed for a photo opportunity at the Whitehouse. After that, my guess is that the McCain campaign will announce that the senator has “somehow” been recaptured by the VC (until days before the election); at which point, his running mate will rescue him “Rambo: First Blood Part Two” style. That’s how I’d play it anyway.
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