Portrait in Political Suicide... McCain sets fire to his hair!
As Hostra University is located on Long Island, NY...the professionals from the CSI NY lab were called to the scene. What awaits the techs behind the yellow tape is disturbing and yet like rubber necking on the highway...we just gonna take a peek!
Dick Polman not a doctor but a writer has issued a time of death for the McCain campaign and he has diagnosed the cause as spontaneous human combustion. The origin of the flame has been determined as the brain region and spreading out towards the hairline and instead of grabbing a hose to extinguish the flame John McCain insisted upon grabbing the wrong tool for the problem. CSI NY techs advise they will have no comment until they have returned to the lab to confirm the considerable diagnosis of Dick Polman who was watching on TV and was not of the scene when he called the time of death.
A portrait in political suicide...by Dick Polman
It was approximately 9:54 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on the 15th of October, when John McCain set fire to his hair and took a hammer to his fading candidacy, smashing it to smithereens.
But then, as the hour neared 10 p.m., his simmering cup runneth over.
He took the bait. And he probably lost this election.
Unsolicited futile memo to McCain: People. Do. Not. Care.
And yet, in the end, McCain went for it anyway. It was basically a suicidal move, since most voters have already dismissed McCain as excessively negative, but let us remember that McCain also has to serve his core constituency. His right-wing supporters have been demanding that McCain wield Ayres as a weapon, and, as we know by now (the Palin pick being the best example), McCain dances to the conservatives' tune. He'll never win this election with just his base; on other hand, if he doesn't sufficiently kowtow, his base won't show up to vote, either.
So he took the plunge: "I don't care about an old, washed-up terrorist. But...we need to know the full extent of that relationship." Whereupon Obama, who knew this moment was coming, proceeded to take McCain apart:
Upon interviewing some of the people on the scene the CSI NY techs determined that John McCain had been exhibited erratic behavior for the past few months which has caused eye twitching, scowling and snarling without provocation. One witness on the scene has also confessed that John McCain had been exhibiting personality fluctuation that caused him to declare he was a Maverick one day and a Reformer the next. One outburst was extremely confusing because John McCain had been a staunch supporter of regulation seemed to declare that he had always sees the need for regulation.
Something different, but nothing new,by John Baer
The debate was McCain's best showing yet. Whether his smash-mouth tactics matter, I suspect the answer's no.
As voters gravitate toward Obama, McCain sought to recast himself for, I don't know, maybe the fourth or fifth time in the race.
He was, you'll recall, the experienced candidate, the maverick candidate, the populist candidate (gas-tax holiday), and now he's the attack candidate or the fighting underdog.
A few times he just seemed oddly missing.
During an exchange about nasty ads and raucous rally crowds (Obama noted that GOP rallies included people yelling "terrorist" at the mention of Obama's name and "kill him"), McCain, while condeming such conduct, said, "Let me just say categorically, I'm proud of the people who come to our rallies."
Oooh-kay.
And in answering a question about why Sarah Palin would be a better president than Joe Biden, McCain said it was because she's a "role model to women" and "she's a reformer . . . she's a reformer through and through . . . she understands reform . . . and her husband's a pretty tough guy, too."
Dizzying.
The CSI techs say that it will take 3 weeks to determine the cause and that there will be announcement November 4th, 2008. It is hard for many like Mike Smerconish to come to terms with what happened. Affectionately called Smerc on MSNBC cannot bring himself to say anything negative about the man John McCain but has reluctantly admitted John McCain had been running with a rough crowd of bullies recently and that he had indeed made some bad decisions and succumbed to peer pressure. The gang would wander and rove about aimlessly causing pain to innocent citizens. Planning ahead as a result Mike Smerconish has issued a memo for worldwide distribution on November 5th.
McCain: The first obituary by Michael Smerconish
Memo to John McCain
It was terrific when you interrupted the Minnesota woman when she said she thought Obama was Arab. Trouble is, she began by saying, "I can't trust Obama," a notion she pulled right out of our media campaign. There
were also those individuals who warmed up crowds by using Obama's middle name, and the Virginia GOP chairman who said bin Laden and Obama "both have friends that bombed the Pentagon."
Voters realized that the campaign couldn't control the knuckleheads who gravitated to our effort, but they concluded that we fostered an atmosphere that made these people think their behavior was appropriate. We should have acted sooner to rein in those supporters. Similarly, the William Ayers issue worked our base into a lather, as planned, but our bombardment of that charge at a time when the economy was imploding repelled those who were still trying to make up their minds.
Perhaps no one event epitomizes our misstep like our VP selection. At the Republican National Convention, Sarah Palin delivered a stem-winder that energized the base, but over time distanced us from moderates and independents whose support should have been our target.
Frankly, you were ill-served by those of us who talked you out of taking Sen. Lieberman or Gov. Ridge. We should've recognized their pro-choice views were an asset, not a liability.
There were a number of missed opportunities.
The Philly papers had a lot to write about last night. Congratulations to the Phillies for going to the World Series. Davis Plouffe is a happy man today for more than one reason!
P.S I love Hill Harper from CIS NY who supports Barack Obama.