At worst, the Senate resolves things quickly and the debate goes on, but even then McCain has interrupted Obama’s rhythm, gotten inside his head -and- shown hands-on legislative leadership.

If things aren’t resolved by Friday then McCain is taking the high ground and doing real work. Losing 3-4 days of political ads are not going to sink him – I firmly believe that the hardest-hitting ads against Obama are yet to come and it would be too early to release them now anyway.

Also, keep in mind that Obama loses debates (Hillary cleaned his clock regularly even with the media offering him pillows), so anything that ups their importance and compresses their schedule will only highlight Obama’s weakness without a teleprompter.

As I commented on the other thread: best move since he picked Palin.

I can see for McCain is if his trip to Washington is fruitless. Personally, I don’t hold much confidence in the people who caused this problem to find an acceptable solution.
The upside is enormous, however. With all the talk of doom and gloom and an impending depression, if what comes out of Washington does not lead to that then it would be viewed as a success. Both parties will attempt to take credit, of course, but this leaves the MSM in a very precarious position. How do you defend Obama’s decision NOT to be part of the solution when his fellow democrats are on all the talk shows claiming victory. Obama’s absence at the time when his country needed his ‘leadership’ the most will be quite noticeable.
Also, it can be argued that Obama’s unwillingness to go to Washington to do what he gets paid to do rests in his desire to actually see his colleagues in Washington FAIL in their attempts to fix the present problem.
Bottom line: The potential upside for McCain is much greater than for Obama; unless Washington fails.

further (It was a news conference Im sure others saw) Obama said he wanted to speak on the financial things plus have the debate because to paraphrase Presidents can do two things at once.

I just sent them my two cents worth.

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Please go to the debate if Obama won’t call it off. Go to Washington on Thursday and Friday morning. Then head to Oxford and hand Obama his ass.

I hope that Emmanuel is right, but I have some real anxiety. For the same reason that presidential candidates should steer clear of a natural disaster so the rescue work can be done, presidential candidates should steer clear of true crises in Congress for fear of slowing down the bureaucratic machine. (Unless there is true gridlock, and it’s not clear to me that there is true gridlock at this point.)

SUSA did a poll on this:

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReportUC.aspx?g=54d651a7-a62b-4420-bb32-9dd6b2df8c02

They seemed to come to the conclusion that Americans are not in favor of this move. Take it for what it is — a quick poll taken immediately after the announcement — but the initial reactions are not good for what McCain is trying to do.

I would tend to think that it’s absolutely KEY that we hear debate on how the candidates plan to handle this…so in that light, I’d like to keep the debates but refocus on domestic issues instead of foreign policy at least for the first one.

**I hope that Sen. McCain knows what he’s doing!! I sounded to me like Obama just said that Sen. McCain can’t do more than one thing at a time. I took great offense to that remark. I just hope that this isn’t the beginning of the end for our candidate. The Obama spokesperson on Fox news just said that this was a “stunt” by McCain because he isn’t ready or capable to debate. He was praising Obama for staying on the campaign trail and saying what a great leader he is!! I have never been more scared of losing the election as I am right now!! I am so afraid of Obama as a president, Ireland my be my next home before Jan 20th if he gets in.

It could work to McCain’s benefit, looking like the responsible statesman.

When the country is a crisis, it’s “Country First”, which ties in with his overall campaign theme. Obama would then look like just another politician by demanding the campaign continue.

However, you never want to look like you’re “ducking” the debate, especially when you’re coming from a position of weakness. If that’s how Obama spins it, that the “old man can’t take the heat”, etc., it could be bad. Then again, it may set expectations even higher for Obama in the debate.

What I’m worried about is if McCain goes to Washington and tries to strong arm Republicans in Congress to pass this bailout. Even if you can make the case that economically the bailout is necessary, it’s going to be politically unpopular, especially if it’s a Republican pushing it. Voters don’t like the idea of taxpayers footing the bill for Wall Street’s incompetence.

Let’s be honest here, this is political strategery, which is fine, but McCain being in D.C. will have very little to do with this bailout.

I just don’t want McCain looking like he’s afraid to debate Obama, which is how I’m afraid the very partisan media will portray it.

has McCain actually stated he would pull his ads off of the TV screens when the airtime has already been purchased?!!

you mean an Obama spokesman says this will help Obama?!! Wow that is totally shocking!!

at the most this takes him off the campaign trail through next week- letting Palin continue to packed rallies. it is not like the election hinges on four more McCain events!

While I’m not %100 sold on McCain. I do beleive in Steve. Schmidt.

The media will try to make McCain look like a cynic or a coward, as if he is running from the polls. The ruth is that McCain made this decision yesterday after consulting with members of the Hill including Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton.

Again, the conservative blogosphere has to unite here. Don’t be skeptical. It’s what the MSM wants

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/24/mccainsaidesgivethetick_to.html

hate Barack Obama or the MSM more, they go and surprise me again.
I am literally holding my breath here. Teetering on asking for Prozac, Xanac, or something at my doc’s appt on Friday.

McCain needs to go to WA. Lou Dobbs, just this AM (for me anyway) chastized BOTH of them for not going to WA.

That being said, McCain needs to be at that debate if Barack won’t postpone. The notion that he isn’t prepared or is just too afraid to debate Obama (as the MSM is screeching at the top of their lungs) on FP is just laughable.

All y’all praying people, now would be a good time for such things. Barack must not win this!!!

Yep, this is really going to get me excited about the GOP ticket. Let’s borrow and spend a teradollar bailing out companies that invested foolishly and issued CDOs that they can’t backup.

It’s sooo importatant to the free market and limited government principles that the Republican Party stands for.

Suspending the campaign…
- Allows McCain to conserve resources
- Gives him the headlines
- Puts Obama into reactive mode
. Start counting the number of various reactions from the Obama camp.
. Biden will pronounce a contrary position to the official campaign position before this all said and done.
- A debate this far out is almost meaningless

Another bold move by John McCain. And why not? He’s been fighting an uphill battle for more than a year. He’s been part of party that at the pinnacle of it’s power betrayed it’s principles. His president has been under assault for almost 5 of the last 7 years. The odds of winning the White House under these conditions are immense… unless you make bold moves.

We need a president who would rather lose an election than lose a war.

McCain shows by his actions that those aren’t “just words”, to coin a phrase.

McCain is not going to Washington as part of some political master plan. He is going to Washington because the Republicans in Congress have openly rebelled against the bailout package, and there is a massive power vacuum where President Bush once stood.

McCain gave these rebels cover when he came out with his own list of “I wont vote for it unless” conditions. Now someone has to round up enough Republican votes to save the Republic and the Republican Party.

Take it step by step. If McCain doesn’t fill the void and enforce some discipline then:

1. Republicans vote en-mass against the bailout in whatever form the Democrats and the administration finally agree to.

(This is part of the problem, House Republicans feel cut out of the loop by their own administration, and sending Dick Cheney isn’t gona cut it)

1. Bill doesn’t pass, financial markets tank, and Democrats go home to blame Republicans. The rest of America waits around the kitchen table for the lights to go out.

(Too pessimistic? Do you think Paulson, Cheney, and Bush are pushing this plan the fun of it?)

1. Obama rides the blame wave into the Whitehouse.

If all this is to be avoided, McCain has to get Republicans in the House and Senate to buy into his populist, no golden parachute, more oversight and regulation bailout proposal. This is a tall order, but a snarling John McCain coming hot from the campaign trail will certainly turn more heads on Capital Hill than anyone in the Administration.

Love or hate the bailout, I think McCain’s intentions are clear. He is doing this to trying to save the country from great suffering, and the only way he can do that is by gaining the confidence of fellow Republicans.

It looks, feels, smells like a stunt, not a serious effort to calm things down in DC.

Put differently, it looks for all the world like an effort to get political benefit from the economic crisis, rather than an effort to maximize the chance that it can be solved.

Add to that Obama’s contacting McCain so the two could present a common front on this, which would have tended to depoliticize it. To then go public with this plan without first responding to Obama – looks bad. Looks like an effort to steal a march politically when the future of the world is at stake.

I think McCain is losing it. I really do. Given how screwed we are right now, I don’t want a lone gunman maverick riding into the sunset all by himself; I want a calm and sensible team player who helps us put things back together. That maybe could be McCain, given his experience and inherent gravitas, but it seems like he or someone in his campaign has decided that what we really want in a President is unpredictability and stuntsmanship.

Now, if McCain can kill the deal that’s circulating, and come up with something radically different that’s good for the taxpayer – I’ll eat my words. If he just gives his belated blessing to the revised Paulson plan that’s circulating on the Hill and throughout the internet – he’s toast. If, worst of all worlds, he gums up the works and the world financial markets melt down per the predictions of Bernanke and Paulson (and I’m a registered skeptic on that happening), he, his children, our party, anyone whose name starts with Mc – all screwed beyond redemption for a generation.

He had to know that there was absolutely no way Obama would accept his suggestion to postpone the debate- it would have made Obama look like his poodle.

So assume McCain had to know that Obama would insist on having the debate as scheduled and has already prepared his next move. What is McCain’s plan to respond to Obama’s insistence on keeping the debate as planned?

I don’t think he can just blow it off, maybe he can jet out there directly from DC Friday night, show up right before, jet back to DC right after if need be.

Albeit the intent is genuinly honorable, the execution is flawed.

When in battle, never lay down your arms in hoping your enemy will do the same. He will kill you. McCain could have had the best of both worlds, go to DC, work on the bailout, keep the ads humming backing up his message of country first, while sending out Palin the pit bull hammering Obama that while the messiah talks the talk McCain walks the walk.
McCain just threw an interception with the clock winding down late in the 4th quarter.

whether you like McCain or not, and I do, you know full well that he did this totally outside of any political calculation. You all know full well that in times of crisis McCain doesn’t make political calculations.

Second, in all my years of following politics, I can’t remember a more political dumb, I wish I could think of a better word, move than what Obama just did. To admit that he has no role to play in crafting such important legislation is the deathknell in his campaign. I believe the campaign is for all intents and purposes over. Barack Obama has just committed political suicide.

but, if McCain doesn’t show up for the debate, and Obama is then “interviewed,” if the event would even go forward, that would mean McCain would have to be afforded airtime later on because of some fair-use or balance (can’t think of the term).

This could turn into another Saddleback – something Obama would not want.

perhaps he did it because it is what is right for the country at this moment in time, regardless of the political consequences…

Today john McCain showed what it meant to put country first.

He put everything on the line to try to put together a bipartisan sizable economic package to replace the failed Paulson bailout package.
Newt:

“This is the greatest single act of responsibility ever taken by a presidential candidate and rivals President Eisenhower saying, ‘I will go to Korea.’

Every House and Senate Republican should join him in seeking the best ideas and the best solutions from across the country.

This is the day the McCain-reform Republican Party began to truly emerge as a movement which puts country first, solutions first, and big change first.”

Today john McCain showed what it meant to put country first.

He put everything on the line to try to put together a bipartisan sizable economic package to replace the failed Paulson bailout package.
Newt:

“This is the greatest single act of responsibility ever taken by a presidential candidate and rivals President Eisenhower saying, ‘I will go to Korea.’

Every House and Senate Republican should join him in seeking the best ideas and the best solutions from across the country.

This is the day the McCain-reform Republican Party began to truly emerge as a movement which puts country first, solutions first, and big change first.”

Today john McCain showed what it meant to put country first.

He put everything on the line to try to put together a bipartisan sizable economic package to replace the failed Paulson bailout package.
Newt:

“This is the greatest single act of responsibility ever taken by a presidential candidate and rivals President Eisenhower saying, ‘I will go to Korea.’

Every House and Senate Republican should join him in seeking the best ideas and the best solutions from across the country.

This is the day the McCain-reform Republican Party began to truly emerge as a movement which puts country first, solutions first, and big change first.”

Today john McCain showed what it meant to put country first.

He put everything on the line to try to put together a bipartisan sizable economic package to replace the failed Paulson bailout package.
Newt:

“This is the greatest single act of responsibility ever taken by a presidential candidate and rivals President Eisenhower saying, ‘I will go to Korea.’

Every House and Senate Republican should join him in seeking the best ideas and the best solutions from across the country.

This is the day the McCain-reform Republican Party began to truly emerge as a movement which puts country first, solutions first, and big change first.”

Today john McCain showed what it meant to put country first.

He put everything on the line to try to put together a bipartisan sizable economic package to replace the failed Paulson bailout package.
Newt:

“This is the greatest single act of responsibility ever taken by a presidential candidate and rivals President Eisenhower saying, ‘I will go to Korea.’

Every House and Senate Republican should join him in seeking the best ideas and the best solutions from across the country.

This is the day the McCain-reform Republican Party began to truly emerge as a movement which puts country first, solutions first, and big change first.”

Today john McCain showed what it meant to put country first.

He put everything on the line to try to put together a bipartisan sizable economic package to replace the failed Paulson bailout package.
Newt:

“This is the greatest single act of responsibility ever taken by a presidential candidate and rivals President Eisenhower saying, ‘I will go to Korea.’

Every House and Senate Republican should join him in seeking the best ideas and the best solutions from across the country.

This is the day the McCain-reform Republican Party began to truly emerge as a movement which puts country first, solutions first, and big change first.”

Today john McCain showed what it meant to put country first.

He put everything on the line to try to put together a bipartisan sizable economic package to replace the failed Paulson bailout package.
Newt:

“This is the greatest single act of responsibility ever taken by a presidential candidate and rivals President Eisenhower saying, ‘I will go to Korea.’

Every House and Senate Republican should join him in seeking the best ideas and the best solutions from across the country.

This is the day the McCain-reform Republican Party began to truly emerge as a movement which puts country first, solutions first, and big change first.”

Today john McCain showed what it meant to put country first.

He put everything on the line to try to put together a bipartisan sizable economic package to replace the failed Paulson bailout package.
Newt:

“This is the greatest single act of responsibility ever taken by a presidential candidate and rivals President Eisenhower saying, ‘I will go to Korea.’

Every House and Senate Republican should join him in seeking the best ideas and the best solutions from across the country.

This is the day the McCain-reform Republican Party began to truly emerge as a movement which puts country first, solutions first, and big change first.”

Obama took the bait.

McCain gave Obama the chance to put his money where his mouth is.

Reach across party lines for the good of America.

Put politics aside during a huge crisis.

Show the people your the leader you say you are.

Well, Obama scored an F.

The largest crisis in recent history and Obama pretty much said politics must go on as usual, who cares about the state of the union, lets debate!

He is still a member of Congress and he should be on Capital hill doing what he was elected to do!! How in hell can he lead the free world when he is nowhere to be found?

I hope this proves to everyone once and for all that he is no leader, national crisis and he tucks tail and depends on his advisors to think for him.

Obama = me and my campaign first.

McCain = country and the people first.

I was wondering who would pull this move first. I always thought it was risky, but could work. I must admit, cancelling the debate is a dumb move for Mccain. America wants to hear from its leaders, not retreat to the Hill. I dont see how this aspect of the plan will work…

As soon as I heard the announcement, my first thought was that McCain was indicating he couldn’t handle more than one issue at a time. That he couldn’t prep for the debate and have to think about economics at the same time. Then I saw the Drudge note about Letterman. I think McCain will get hammered for this — the late night comics, SNL, etc. are going to have a blast with this. And you may not care what they talk about on those shows, but the 18 – 39 demographic gets their news and opinions from those shows. McCain doesn’t connect well with younger voters to start with, he can’t afford this.

P.S.
I like McCain. I like it when he stands up for what he believes even when I disagree with him. I don’t like seeing him play games and this seems like a game to me.

This is McCain at his best…Being a leader and schooling the eager, ambitious upstart in the art of keeping your opponent off balance. Obama hesitated (again) about which side of the buyout to come down on. McCain was against the buyout early in the process.

McCain is making the Dems think he’s not ready or capable of debating “The One” by putting country first (as usual). He’s using the rope-a-dope to lower expectations and make the Dems overconfident. He might even act like he’s skipping the debate then show up, out of the blue – It would make for great stagecraft and sucker the press into playing “Wheres McCain” for an entire day (ignoring Obama which really irritates him). Make no mistake, Mac has never avoided a good fight and he’ll be there ready to rumble on Friday.

I would be far more impressed if McCain didn’t effectively say: I’m postponing Friday’s debate so I can go to DC to try and get something passed by Friday so we can still have our debate that evening but uh I can’t go tonight because I’ve got this Clinton Global Warming thing to attend tomorrow. He’s still going according to Mark Levin over an NRO.

Does that makes sense? He wants it passed as soon as possible, is willing to cancel a national debate on the chance it won’t pass when he says he want it done by, but won’t skip Clinton’s Global Warming thing tomorrow to get to DC tonight and start working? I’m sorry, but WTF. At least be consistent. How can I not interpret that to mean attending that meeting trumps the economic crisis that McCain is will to suspend campaigning and a national debate for. Especially since it happens tomorrow when he’s hoping to have this thing passed by Friday.

All he had to do was cancel tomorrow’s appearance to not look like a fool and a politician. I presume somebody is telling him now that the optics look bad but if his plane isn’t on the way to DC in a few hours this will look worse tomorrow when people figure out where he is.

Many of you are history buffs, so I apologize if this is review for you.

In 1946, the Republican Party won control of both houses of Congress after 14 years of Democratic domination. President Truman had low approval ratings and appeared weak. He was old, he had a reputation for being angry and losing his temper (sound familiar?) The GOP, along with the media, were convinced that they would obliterate Truman in 1948.

Many Democrats were lukewarm about Truman and he faced schisms in his own party, losing many on the left to Henry Wallace and Southern “Dixiecrats” to Strom Thurmond. The GOP nominated a much younger man in Thomas Dewey who beat the mantra of bringing change to Washington. The media almost unanimously declared Truman DOA going into the fall campaign.

And then, Truman made an unexpected move. After the GOP Convention, he called Congress into special session; he challenged them to enact some of the promises they made at their convention. The GOP Congressional leaders failed to respond, preferring to wait until Dewey took office (again, it was a given). Dewey himself remained aloof. Truman then labeled Congress “Do Nothing” and ran a boisterous fall campaign against them. Truman won comfortably, shocking the media and the Republicans; an upset political junkies still wax about today.

What McCain did today seems awfully similar to Truman’s move. There are contextual differences, of course. McCain is not the incumbent and Obama is no Tom Dewey (who had no personality and inspired virtually no one). Nevertheless, I can see where this is going. If McCain plays this move well and if Obama reacts as he has so far (giving a bunch of indecisive comments before finally responding), I firmly believe that McCain will finally have a clear advantage.

Consider the imagery of today. McCain says “Let’s work together on this problem, now”. Obama says “No, let’s have a debate first”. The former is an act of a leader; the latter is an act of a candidate. The former is trying to “do”; the latter wants more “talk”. This dichotomy might not matter terribly much if Obama had a long record of legislative accomplishment under his belt. But, McCain has been fairly successful in framing him as not much but soaring speeches. Today’s events only underscore this framing.

At worst, the voters won’t respond at all. McCain loses nothing. Few swing voters will care if a largely canned debate is postponed (or even canceled); there are two more on the horizon as it is. At best, this strategy might, just might, make McCain the 44th President.

Good job, Mac. Whatever you’re paying Steve Schmidt, double it.

Boys, I don’t see too much downside here, since McCain was sliding in the polls anyway. I think his motives are sincere; after all, we are paying him to be a US Senator. But netting it out politically, I could see McCain helping come up with some type of compromise bailout, then go down to the debate and absolutely cleaningg Barry’s clock. Obama – “just call me if you need me.” A Hall of Fame political ad from the 2008 campaign.

I think I understand why McCain is doing this, but I do have reservations. McCain is doing this for the same reason that he does almost everything else in his professional life. His own rigid concept of honor (service to country, above all else) requires that he sacrifice his own interests for the sake of the country. When Harry Reid suggested that a deal would be impossible without McCain’s support, he probably didn’t mean that McCain should drop everything and come back to Washington to help craft a compromise.

But that’s how McCain took it. In his mind, he couldn’t support a compromise plan if he didn’t participate in putting it together. And if Reid says that no compromise is possible without his support, well then in McCain’s mind that means he has to come back. He has to do that for the good of the country. Once you frame the question in those terms there is only one possible course of action for John McCain.

That said, it probably would have been enough for McCain to simply endorse whatever bailout package the Democrats in Congress and the Bush Administration put together. I doubt either the White House or the Democratic Leadership expected Senator McCain to make this move, and they probably don’t know how to react to it. Could his presence help move a bailout package through Congress? Yes, since it would put the Republican nominee’s stamp of approval on any compromise plan. In that case, McCain could benefit from being seen as a competent deal-maker.

Could it backfire? Absolutely, because the very idea of a bailout seems very unpopular with Republicans in Congress right now, and the GOP base in general. It could cause trouble between McCain and his base that the Palin pick had ameliorated up to this point. Moreover, having suspended his campaign it will be very hard for John McCain to justify re-starting it until a bailout package has been put together. If Reid and company wanted to do so (and I’m not sure they’ve even thought of this yet) they could keep John McCain in Washington and off the campaign trail for as long as they want simply by dragging their feet on the negotiations. In the meantime, Barack Obama has pointedly not suspended his campaign, which means that McCain has ceded the airwaves, the speaking circuit, and all the campaign momentum to his opponent. That’s a huge advantage unless the public decides that Obama is taking advantage of bad situation and shirking his senatorial duties. Right now, they don’t appear to be of that opinion.

As always, fighter pilot moves are risky but this one is brilliant. Obama has to cram for the Friday exam since he knows nothing on foreign policy. So it’s either spend three days at Debate Camp and be AWOL in DC while McCain leads or head to DC and look stupid and of no use in the place he’s actually worked all of a 142 days while he can’t get his homework done.

Obama’s painted into a corner on this one. I’m surprised he didn’t jump at the chance to push the test out a week and at least be able to show up in Washington and lead the Dems knowing he’s got more time to study later.

Is it just me?

Or is there some Astroturfing working online in EPIC proportions tonight?

Redstate Editors -can you guys do some stats on all of the new trolls and their IPs for today? I think it would be instructive to see how many dozens of Obama-Brownshirts are registering right now to try to turn public and conservative opinion on McCain’s move.

I really think something is going on here judging by the parroting of talking points and spin in the comments on most sites – Politico, ABC, Hotair, NRO’s board, etc.

Let’s track these guys and explode this scam…

to like this, I played both McCain and Obama’s clips in my class this evening, which is full of Kos Kids. Every one of them, to a T, bought the Obama lines in full. Asking why McCain can’t multitask or do things from the road like Obama is. Of course they called McCain “scared” about the debates too. Good to see their kool-aid is still strong. Trust me, I always have an open discussion with them, but the partisan blinders are in full force, even more so than they were when I taught 4 years ago (which was my first presidential campaign as an instructor).

Overall, I’m worried about this move… but I like it. The worry is about the spin control. I think the past few weeks of “he’s mean and lying” really permeated the discussion, and cost McCain even prior to the economic crisis taking center stage. I don’t think McCain’s team handled any of the backlash versus, for instance, the sex ed ad very well. I think the media will ultimately continue their M.O. by spitting Obama’s talking points.

This move must work – I.E. a resolution must come from it, and it needs to be something McCain can/will campaign with. That will be the true demonstration of leadership, and “country first”. He needed to grab the ball with this issue, and this unprecedented move can do that, if the next moves i this chess match are played correctly.

The debate must go on, though a move to economic matters seems prudent, hold the foreign policy until later. If it comes to it, having McCain on via satellite might make sense?

Unlike my students, I was not impressed with Obama’s response, but what else could he say really? I truly hope his “call me if you need me” line comes back to haunt him.

to keep the Dems filthy socialistic hands off this bill:

Excellent article from Big Lizard:

So McCain is back in DC Thursday and most of Friday working on the bill and Congress takes its inevitable recess for the weekend. What would happen if someone with a private, high priority jet, and maybe a helicopter to boot were to make them available so that McCain could still appear at the debate because at the insistence of Obama and the MSM, the country demanded it?

This is potentially more important even than the election.

Really? McCain was already losing, and the trend was against him.

Might as well try something different, go down swinging.

Obam’s worried because he has so many of the people directly responsible for causing this crisis working for him and helping his campaign. So he’s worried that if he shows up it will be pointed out in front of all the major news media and they won’t be able to cover for him anymore like they have been.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tZc8oH–o&eurl=http://dyn.politico.com/members/forums/thread.cfm?catid=1&subcatid=2&threadid=1472311&start=61&CurrentPageiurl=http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/H5tZc8oH–o/default.jpg

Obam’s worried because he has so many of the people directly responsible for causing this crisis working for him and helping his campaign. So he’s worried that if he shows up it will be pointed out in front of all the major news media and they won’t be able to cover for him anymore like they have been.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tZc8oH–o&eurl=http://dyn.politico.com/members/forums/thread.cfm?catid=1&subcatid=2&threadid=1472311&start=61&CurrentPageiurl=http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/H5tZc8oH–o/default.jpg

…is McCain going to do when he gets to Washington? He doesn’t hold a leadership position and his party is in the minority.

Is it really helpful for him to intervene in precarious negotiations where they’re trying to get a bipartisan bill completed before our economy completely goes down the crapper? Injecting presidential politics into the situation seems like a bad move if he truly puts “country first”.

I call em like I see em, so I say this is nothing more than a political gimmick for McCain to try to make Obama look bad while delaying the debates (especially the VP debate – more cramming for Sarah) and in the end he’ll try to take all the credit when a bill goes through.

Yet another example of why all this “Bi-Partisan” crud is for the birds… Every time we “Conservatives” manage to be “Bi-Partisan” it means we “compromise” to more SOCIALISM…

Time for MORE PARTISANSHIP and Conservatives actually fighting for the right values. Being “Bi-Partisan” and willing to “compromise” (remember W ran on working with Dem’s, and unfortunately has far too many times) while in control of Congress got us ridiculous spending and being voted back out of power because we FAILED OUR PRINCIPLES. Here we go compromising them again…

say no to Obama Bin Biden ticket

Only reaching across the aisle I want to see McCain do is to SLAP THE S… OUT OF THE OTHER SIDE!

I want to see if John stands up for his red-rick as a reformer or if he ends up following the party line.