Good Lord does Politico have a whopper of a doozie for the Monday Morning consumption... how this isn't headline news on their own site, I don't know....
ONE Day after rolling out a story lauding new Tax Cut plans to fix this economy we find out, that after a long meeting, the Campaign has exactly ZERO new ideas to fix the economy... this should END the campaign as it currently exists, in all it's hobbled and desperate glory...
Presented with 30 options for new economic measures, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has – at least for now – chosen none of them.
His campaign had been planning to roll out new proposals this week that would be aimed at restoring confidence in financial markets and encouraging investors to return.
They even had Graham come out and rolls somethings of a Peekshow yesterday
On Sunday, hours before attending a big strategy meeting at McCain campaign headquarters, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Bob Schieffer on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that McCain was planning “a very comprehensive approach to jump-start the economy, by allowing capital to be formed easier in America by lowering taxes."
Great, a plan... wow, lets see it then John...
But when the meeting ended, so did plans for a new economy push. The campaign now says no new policy announcements are planned. Participants in the meeting refused to say what happened.
“We’re locked down,” said one official.
Jackie Calmes of The New York Times, who first reported the plan’s collapse on Sunday night, pointed to “internal confusion” about the matter.
Here is that NY Times piece
On Saturday, his advisers were considering a range of economic ideas, one indicated. On Sunday, on the CBS News program “Face the Nation,” Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a confidant of Mr. McCain, confirmed a report on Politico.com that Mr. McCain was weighing proposals to cut taxes on investors’ capital gains and dividends.
But McCain advisers later said they did not know why Mr. Graham said that.
“We do not have any immediate plans to announce any policy proposals outside of the proposals that John McCain has announced, and the certain proposals that would result as economic news continues to come our way,” said a campaign spokesman, Tucker Bounds. Mr. McCain’s policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, said, “I have no comment on anything, to anybody.”
Wait for the MONEY QUOTE from former GOP insider
“At this point I don’t think McCain can say anything on the economy that will sound credible,” said Bruce Bartlett, a former economic adviser to President Ronald Reagan and President George Bush.
ZINGER!!!
So let's get this straight... Saturday the campaign drops heavy hints to Politico about an impending new tax plan including Tax proposals to cut Captial gains and others... And Politico is reporting that 30 new proposals were on the table, and in the end, the campaign and candidate are content to just not do anything new?
Did they just find the Whitey tape or something, because seriously, they're not even trying to even phone it in anymore... if I had to characterize the current McCain campaign, they're simply throwing the election now. This huge of a disorganization story days before voting on the singular issue of the day just drives that nail that much further into the coffin of a campaign that is otherwise pathetic...