Inquring minds are dying to know, yea, yearning to learn, now that McCain’s campaign is down in the dumps again, and having seen him over the last two months throw all the cards up in the air by:
- Threatening war with Russia over a small border dispute;
- Truncating the Republican National Convention at the last minute to help out Gustav victims;
- CHOOSING SARAH PALIN;
- Blurting out as a first reaction to the financial mess that we should fire popular “FEC” chairman Cox, and then taking that back;
- “Suspending” his campaign (which actually never stopped for a day) to rush to Washington and single-handedly fix the crisis (actually throwing a spanner in the works)…
… what will he do next? A British rag (grain of salt here) reports that the Levi/Bristol wedding is planned for the week before Election Day; they quote a “McCain insider”: “It would be fantastic. You would have every TV camera there. The entire country would be watching. It would shut down the race for a week.” So, don’t rule that out. I pity the two kids.
But last week Slate Magazine, striving to be helpful, predicted “McCain’s Next 10 Hail-Mary Stunts,” which I’ll post over the flip. Please feel free to use the comment section to suggest other possibilities. Remember, the goal is to insulate ourselves from overmuch shock. Or mirth.
Slate predicts McCain’s next 10 Hail Mary stunts.
Posted Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008, at 1:39 PM ET
1. Returns to Vietnam and jails himself.
2. Offers the post of “vice vice president” to Warren Buffett.
3. Challenges Obama to suspend campaign so they both can go and personally drill for oil offshore.
4. Learns to use computer.
5. Does bombing run over Taliban-controlled tribal areas of Pakistan.
6. Offers to forgo salary, sell one house.
7. Sex-change operation.
8. Suspends campaign until Nov. 4, offers to start being president right now.
9. Sells Alaska to Russia for $700 billion.
10. Pledges to serve only one term. OK, half a term.
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The next stunt will be:
Bringing Cindy and Sarah onstage and telling the American public “with me in the White House you get THREE of us runing the country – and don’t forget Cindy actually has experience.”
I can’t believe I missed this post.
Maybe I’m paranoid (well, not maybe, I think after what I’ve seen the past 8 years, I AM paranoid), but these types of desperation moves are important to contemplate and publicize. I would not put anything past Karl and his den of vipers, so I don’t think the wedding taking place the week before the elections is that far-fetched of a political ploy.
Most of the newspapers are reporting the wedding is being planned for the summer. Cynics like me who questioned the McCain campaign about this potential “stunt” have replied that Sarah Palin would never use her child so shamelessly.
Let’s hope so.