The derangement has taken hold. It has spread from McCain to his running mate and to senior staff. McCain is actually campaigning in Iowa. Yes, Iowa! Where he only lags by 15 points, and it is 8 days to the election!. The other state of delusion is PA, where McCain is behind by 13 points. PA has the added benefit of being an expensive media market, draining what is left of the GOP money.
Why not accept reality and do what he can to salvage some Republican Senate seats? That is what Dole did in 1996. Why piss off the base by attacking Bush on the GOP party organ, the Washington Times? There is losing and there is taking down all your allies down with you. Is this McCain's final act of maverickyness? Is he getting even for all the insults, all the profanity, directed at him by the GOP stalwarts over the years? McCain is a proud man, never to forget a slight. He bears the scars of fighting his own party, as he says himself. This is McCain's revenge. If he can't win this one, he is taking them all down with him.
It is like the final scene in the Cagney movie "White Heat". Upon realizing that he has been betrayed and he is surrounded, Jarret (Cagney) goes totally bananas. He decides to fight to his death. He shoots his allies. Rushes to the top of a gas storage tank. When the police shoot at him, he shoots at the gas tank, making it explode.
Made it, Ma! Top of the world!
he shouts as he dies.
That is how McCain wants to end this election. He knows he is surounded. Even Arizona is no sanctuary.
NYTimes
In Arizona, Democrats Mount Strong Challenge
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
Published: October 26, 2008
Democrats — and privately, some leading Republicans — say they believe the Democrats can pick up one and possibly two Congressional seats now held by Republicans.
His accomplices allies have deserted him. Not just Gen. Powell. Even Karl Rove projects an Obama landslide. Damn them all. McCain is on top of the world! See Ma! He finally made it!