Welcome to the Hail Mary Campaign.
Amazing speech by your opponent? HAIL MARY!
Poll numbers dropping like dead weight? HAIL MARY!
VP pick turning out to be a millstone around your neck? HAIL MARY!
Campaign adviser as crooked as they come? HAIL MARY!
The Obama campaign has a huge opening here. Call McCain out on his hypocrisy, his ridiculousness, and the established pattern of his reckless, panicky decisions in this campaign, and then go ahead and have some sort of debate/town hall/press conference on Friday night. Some sort of Q&A with the American people about the financial crisis, laying out in detail how we got into this mess and how we will get ourselves out of it.
I really think McCain shot himself in the foot, here. Especially if Congress approves the bailout by tomorrow night! Obama should just keep cool, as he always does. This whole deal stinks and the press will eviscerate McCain for this obviously cynical ploy.
Of course, even Doug Flutie knows that every once in awhile a Hail Mary works...