How's that for a "sexy" headline, kids? It's a line from a piece by Howard Wolfson of the New Republic, that says it's over for McCain. (Yippee, but I'll believe it's over when it's over. I'm phone-bankin' for Obama, first time I ever did that for any candidate in any race.)
The point of the piece is that events and McCain mistakes have turned the election is a "set dynamic" now, like a snowball getting bigger and bigger as it rolls downhill, and it's too late for McCain to change that dynamic now. (continued)
05.10.2008
It's Over: Why Bill Ayers Won't Save John McCain
http://blogs.tnr.com/...
Perpetually fretting Democrats will not want to accept it. The campaigns themselves can't afford to believe it. Many journalists know it but can't say it. And there will certainly be some twists and turns along the way. But take it to a well capitalized bank: Bill Ayers isn't going to save John McCain. The race is over...
...State polls are beginning to reflect this. If the election were tomorrow, Obama would win all of the states John Kerry carried and add Iowa, New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, Nevada, Ohio and Florida. Barack Obama is campaigning in Indiana, which last went for a Democrat in 1964 and North Carolina, which has gone for a Democrat only once in thirty-four years. At the same time John McCain has pulled out of Michigan and Sarah Palin has been forced to visit Nebraska.
That's the part that cracked me up, that last phrase there.
Palin: No, I'm not goin' to Nebraska, no sir. They're mean down there. I know, cause I met Miss Nebraska once up in Alaska and she was a real B-I-T-C-hockey sticks, if you get my drift.
McCain: Sarah, you just spelled out "Bitcll." Anyway, you've got to go, Sarah. We're in trouble in Nebraska.
Palin: I gotta draw the line somewhere. It's all flat, there's nothin' to do. I gotta draw the line somewhere, John, and I'm drawin' the line at Nebraska. I don't want Obama sayin' I'm pallin' around with Nebraskans, I don't want him throwin' that up to me. I told ya, right off the top, during at that first fifteen minute meetin', that I'd do anything for the GOP except go to Nebraska.
McCain: I'm asking you to take one for the team, Sarah.
Palin: That isn't fair, John, ta spring this on me like this. I'm still gettin' over New York. No sir, gotta say no, and "no" means "no" from this maverick.
McCain: I didn't want it to come to this, Sarah. (to campaign staff) Boys...
Palin: Hey! Don't you touch me! You guys let go a me! You put me down!
McCain: Take is easy on her boys, but get her on that plane. Don't hit her in the face, we need the face.
Palin: No, I won't go! You betcha I won't go! I'm callin' Todd!
(Jumpcut to Todd, drinking a shot and beer at the local bar miles away. Shakes his head while reading the paper. His cell phone rings, Todd examines it.)
Todd: (to himself) He musta told her about Nebraska.
( He turns off the cell phone and puts it back in his pocket. Then he downs the shot, chokes, shakes it off, rolls his eyes.)
(Cut back to McCain, following his men as they carry the struggling Palin across the tarmac to another plane they almost sold on Ebay)
McCain: When you get there, remember to tell 'em the terrorist story again!
Palin: No! No! It's all flat, there's no nightlife compared to Wassila! I'll getcha back for this, John McCain! Let me go!
McCain: Sarah, we got a taser here, don't make us use it.
Palin:(yelling as they stuff her in the plane) Help! Help! John, this isn't fair! You know I ain't never been out of the country before!