In a daring political maneuver, John McCain has decided that the best way to win in November is to suspend his campaign! That’s bound to work. And it is clearly for the best… because, you know, what the Senate needs right now is another politician trying to capitalize on crisis.
If I thought for a minute that this was sincere, I would have to ask: Why today? (It wouldn’t, by any chance, be the release of this morning’s ABC News poll showing Obama up 52% to 43%, would it???)
EDIT (9/25/08):
It has turned out that McCain’s “suspension” is even more of a blatant sham than I expected (and I am rather cynical). Apparently, not only are McCain’s surrogates out on the cable news shows, attacking Obama while they are at it, but McCain’s ads are still running… and all of his offices are still up and running (see here).
So, by “suspension of his campaign” he meant something like “I’m tired of practicing for the debate and am going to do something more interesting instead.” Not surprising, I suppose, that he would look to get out of doing homework given his fifth-from-bottom-of-class ranking at the United States Naval Academy.
EDIT (9/26/08):
Phew! The campaign is back on. Mission “get in the way and help make things even worse” accomplished?
