Did McCains appearance on MTP today end his chances?

[59millionmorons]

He was awful today on MTP he got caught with one contradiction after another. He wouldn't admit he blew the Kerry botched joke and only did it for political reasons, stabbing his friend in the back. Russert showed him in 2005 he said Iraq was heading in the right direction. He really looked today that he is not presidential material. Russert smacked him on sucking up to falwell. McCain was a mess. The straight talk express has CRASHED.

[Cass]

1. Wow. I didn't see this but I wish I had. Sounds like Russert did a good job. nt

[59millionmorons]

4. Not really

Russert was trying to be gentle with him. He just seemed to have no good answers and no fight in him. It was like he was stunned by his own actions.

[Poiuyt]

2. McCain has always been loved by the media

If they decide to press him a little bit and show what he's really like, then he won't stand a chance.

[fooj]

3. What HASN'T McCain compromised to further his OWN agenda?

His integrity, his honor, the military, his fellow veterans, John Kerry, his values, his reputation...

Not much left, eh?

[Island Blue]

5. In the little bit that I saw (which admittedly wasn't much)

he didn't look or sound good at all. I'm not talking content of what he was saying (which was also not good) but just that his appearance was very pale and his voice sounded weak.

[59millionmorons]

6. I noticed that too

It is coming up again at 6pm on MSNBC. I will watch it again.

[jgraz]

7. Whoa -- someone PLEASE post a clip!

[Crunchy Frog]

8. I don't believe that McCain has a shot in hell at the nomination.

He will be eaten alive by the primary process. He simply has no backbone and no convictions that he's willing to stand for. Republics simply don't go for wishy-washy.

My guess is that the party apparat has been stringing him along with promises that '08 will be "his turn" in order to extract cooperation from him wherever it's been useful to him. They've used him and they don't need him anymore. He will figure that out soon enough, I guess.

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. The interview he did on CNN late on election night was similar -

he looked like a shattered man. I don't believe he is particularly healthy - poor color, puffy, and probably completely confused from all of the BS that he has muttered during the Bush* administration. I know that he has his supporters here, but I am simply not one of them - I respect what he went through, his heroism, his service - but to me he has utterly sold out and is simply not presidential material (or congressional material, for that matter). I just wish he would go away.

[Nimrod2005]

10. Yes he did. Plus if you take a look at the voters groups...You have the extreme right

who will not support him anyway, then the extreme left who will not support him either...Then you have independent middle, so called "his voters," the people who he appeals to most.

But during this last election the independents were 80/20 against the fucking war, he still wants to send more troops and/or finish the job...He is now talking to himself...

He is too ignorant to know he has no appeal anymore, let him run and get detroyed in the primaries...I am sick of these people...

[Hav]

11. .

Maybe he is so crushed because even if he wins the nomination, even if he somehow wins the election, he will likely face Dem majorities in both houses ;). That's not so much fun anymore.
But really, I don't think he is fit to serve as the President.

And all the Dems have to do is show that picture where he hugged Bush to tie him to Bush whenever they want.

[ewagner]

12. Or, as Matt Tiabbi put it

in Rolling Stone in his election eve diary:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12400846/the_low_post_matt_taibbis_election_night_diary

snip

1:36 a.m. McCain appears on CNN, broadcasting live from his Arizona office. He's got American flags on either side of him and you can almost see his boner straining against his pants. His smile is unseemly. He's talking about Republican losses and trying to look sullen, but he's not fooling anyone. He's like the bachelor who starts trying to fuck the widow before the funeral convoy even reaches the cemetery

[AlinPA]

13. Very few 'murcan voters watch MTP. He will not have any trouble with

getting the R's nomination.

[Gogi]

14. What has ended McCain's chances is his age.

He's just too old for the job. Reagan was senile during his last two years in office and, if McCain won, he would replace Reagan as our oldest president.

[Pyrzqxgl]

15. I don't think I'm the only one who thinks this man isn't well

In spite of what he says, he just comes across as old and tired. In fact I could see that as a bumper sticker. "McLain: like his fellow Republicans, OLD & TIRED.

[Arugula Latte]

18. How old is he?

He looks younger than Reagan did when he was first elected ... Maybe because he sort of has a baby face (chubby cheeks).

[cadmium]

16. I hope not. He will be easier to beat than people think nt

[SouthernBelle82]

17. I would wait and see

what some polls are saying. Republicans still think the media is liberal so why would they care about that? I think the only person who could be the nominee now is Mitt Romney. He's horrid but he seems to be really trying to become the next George with the evangelicals. I've never thought McCain would get it. He's trying way to hard to be among the conservative evangelicals.