my take on McCain's withdrawal

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. McCain is having mental health issues. His decline is obvious to those close to him, and they need time to recharge his meds.

2. the poll numbers are bad, their internals are worse, they needed to throw a wrench into the works to change the expectations game.

3. He's running short of money, - this saves 3 WHOLE DAYS of cash.

4. All of the above.

5. The last desperate act of a senile old man.

6. All of the above with #5.

[Kerrytravelers]

1. I think #2 is the main reason, with #3 a nice additive for the McCain campaign if they pull this off

[tekisui]

2. I thought he had a horrible week last week.

This week made him suspend his campaign!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. actually, this week was as bad as last week.

until this stunt.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. Maybe also trying to save face if Obama wins by landslide

McCain has a fragile ego. He can always blame the devastation this election will have for the GOP on his supposed "sacrifice" on behalf of America by suspending his campaign. Always playing the victim.

[ErinBerin84]

5. maybe

the McCain staffers really DID think that McCain was going to blow his top at a debate this Friday...McCain obviously needs to jet off to a spa, not Warshington.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. ah yes, the eternal state of WARshington.

[Parker CA]

7. After watching all of the news for the past few hours,

I think it is becoming clear that McLiar is going to go to Washington, talk with all of the pukes, get them in line, vote for this bill, and then fly to Miss in time for the debate on Friday night at which time he will proclaim that his actions of putting country first have resulted in the bill being passed, the crisis being resolved, and he will then debate Obama as planned. He will claim this type of scrambling is what a real president does, as opposed to Obama whom he will claim stayed on the campaign trail during a time of national crisis. He will come out of this shiny and clean, the media will eat it up because he will be viewed as thr reformer who came to DC to unite the pukes and get this bill passed.

I believe they did this all quite intentionally.

[islandmkl]

8. so...tell me how this all comes to a vote on friday??

among other things, harry (and i hate having to rely on him) could put all this off till 'some time later' when things are 'ironed out'...

[Parker CA]

11. I'm hoping you're correct.

Rushing this bill to a decision would be a massive failure, but I have no doubt that McLiar is attempting to do just that, and with Chimpy's speech tonight, he will have behind him the description of the looming "crisis" that needs to be attended to.

Like with a hail mary pass, you can get lucky or you can throw the ball right into your opponent's hands.

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. Step #1: Paint some event as very good for McCain, very bad for Obama

Step #2: When disputed, say "I hope you're right."

:rofl:

That's on p. 6 of the manual, right?

[Parker CA]

15. If you're suggesting I'm offering RW points, you've got your head in the sand deeper than McLiar.

I know I haven't been here long enough to have hundreds of posts, but a quick look at my posted content would show you that I'm as much behind Obama as one can be.

Get your head out of the sand and don't base your opinions on one post that suggests a legitimate idea of why McLiar would be going about things in the way he is.

[krkaufman]

12. Which fits with the "GOP revolt against Cheney" storyline.

But it's still a Hail Mary pass, that may well backfire.

[Raschel]

14. Totally agree

They will say he's not all talk, like Obama, but action.

We need to get out the points that McCain just said the fundamentals of the economy are stong.

We need to keep asking,"why would the good old boys listen to McCain if he's such an "outsider"? He's a good old boy and tied in with this administation.

We need to point out, he's the King of Deregulation and was instrumental in the economic mess.

[monmouth]

16. The only problem with that is his republican cohorts hate his guts

for the most part. You don't hear too many coming out for him.

[Raschel]

9. McCain ends the stalemate on the bailout

That's what this is all about. Palin said on her Couric interview that they "need" grandpa to solve this crisis.

His poll numbers suck so bad that they're pulling this crap.

[natrat]

10. he's so fucking old and stupid he's scared to debate

[Orsino]

17. Possibly just an attempt to break Obamentum.

Whether or not it halts his downward spiral, it might somehow slow it for a while.