In just the past few weeks we've seen John McCain

-- suspend his campaign

-- pick a running mate neither he nor anybody else knew from a state nobody's been to

-- grimace & grouch publicly at his rival for not "reaching across the aisle"

-- pretend his opponent for the Presidency "pals" w/ terrorists

-- pretend his opponent is a Marxist

-- call for the government to nationalize/intervene in vast swaths of the private sector

-- add Joe The Plumber as an "expert" to his entourage

-- permit Palin in his presence to say Americans don't like "labels"


What other rabbits can John McCain try to pull out of his hat? McCain himself hasn't yet called Obama a "Moslem" nor hint he might be as Hillary Clinton was base enough to do last Spring.

A spurious "Moslem" charge is weakened by attacking Christian minister the right Rev Jeremiah Wright, only serving to remind folks that the Obamas have been churchgoing people ever since he was a young man.

It's clear the Tax Issue breaks to Obama's favor w/ his Cut-for-95%-of-Working-Americans refrain. And the Socialist rap rings hollow in the face of so much Bush-backed intervention currently taking place.

My hunch is that John McCain will walk away like Henry Clay, who also ran for the Presidency for the last time in his seventies, & say he'd rather be right than President. Here's hoping Palin purses her lips & salvages some self-respect for her own political future's sake, too.