I have a premonition that McCain is going to turn on Palin and slam her.

[Hepburn]

I am on the West Coast and I could not sleep. So I did the normal thing and got out of bed and checked on my fav internet spot ~~ the DU! :hi:

I have been thinking about things and Morning Dead Intern Joe came on and I was thinking about the way McCain bit into Mika the other day. He really does not like women and he seems to strike out at them.

I am happily looking at the new polling stats and am seeing that McCain-Palin seems to be tanking...and I have the distinct feeling that McCain is going to turn on Palin and start blaming her for the dive their ratings are taking...and he is gonna do something really smarmy awful.

Maybe I am asleep and dreaming...but I do have this distinct feeling that she may be the thing that causes him to blow up and have a total melt-down temper tantrum.

[Zombie2]

1. I bet McSame's going to slam on everyone...

...after he loses this election.

[Marsala]

2. He won't...

...unless her unfavorables pass her favorables and if the polls completely nosedive for him, into the mid-30%s or something. In that case, yeah, he might try swapping her for Romney in a last-ditch attempt to reinvent his ticket as economically astute.

[goclark]

5. I agree with you ~

In fact,I am on the West Coast and I woke up early thinking that Sarah would "drop out" to take care of her children and McCain would drop out too.

Something has got to give and the best thing for us would be McCain and Sarah, that is who we need to go into the debates with ~

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

8. Maybe not in public...

But I can see him having a complete meltdown in private that somehow gets leaked to the public. Remember that if the ship is going down, the fundies might try to sabotage McCain to make it appear as though none of this was Sarah's fault, keeping her viable for future elections.

[lamp_shade]

3. I think when it finally hits her that she's not Princess Diana's successor,

she'll fold up and "want to go home". Her snap decision to get into the race was irresponsibly made and she knows it. It's my opinion, and I may be wrong, but I think the whole terrorgate fiasco is being staged so that she can "step out" with dignity(?) by saying "I don't want to be a burden".

[Frumious B]

4. It was a high risk, high reward choice.

Right now it looks as though the risk is outweighing the reward. It kind of boggles the mind that McCain, in his inexplicable quest for a running mate with ovaries, overlooked the very obvious choice of Mike Huckabee. Huckabee would have had exactly the same galvanizing effect on the Republicans' religious base. However, he is also someone who can speak with a lot of empathy and compassion on the economy. He is actually the potential McCain VP that I feared the most because of this.

[goclark]

6. I agree

Let's be quiet and not let them get that idea in their heads.

Huckabee would have been a real good choice.

He has some nice qualities.

[Cosmocat]

9. Huck or Romney ...

I don't buy that the RR would not have gotten behind Romney - I saw a piece from Ohio that had fundies BEGGING for him. They don't have political conviction, it is POLITICS, and they were going to get behind the VP pick REGARDLESS of who it was. There isn't anything special about Palin, she is a freakin train wreck. They would have gotten behind Cantor, Pawlenty, Romney, GHOULIANI ...

This all comes down to McCain's ego, plain and simple. He could not bring himself to having someone on the ticket who was of equal stature.

As to the OP - things will have to get worse for him before Palin "drops out."

I have a tendency to be the Kill Joy, but I am going to say this. It seems BO weathered a fairly big convention storm - not having his convention on the back end of the R storm to equal it out. And, McCain had a running string of gaffes. And, McCain has attacked the press too much. And, Palin is a trainwreck. AND, the big Wall Street nose dives have put the focus of the race SQUARELY on the economy, which favors BO.

BUT, this is not over by a FAR sight. The media IS going to turn on BO again. AND, 50 days is a LONG time, and if the market stabilizes, the media will lose its focus on the economy and be MORE than willing to adapt whatever kitchen sink McCain/the Rs throw.

AND ... IF something big happens abroad or with a domestic terror attack, the media WILL channel ALL of its energy into saying only McCain can "keep us safe."

Looks good now, but there is TOO much time left for the media to drive the narratives back to McCain.

[Ganja Ninja]

7. He's a ticking time bomb and he's easy to piss off.

Neither of them really think things through before opening their mouths so it wouldn't surprise me if there's a blow up between now and the election.

[OneGrassRoot]

10. I only got this far: "Morning Dead Intern Joe" ...

:rofl:

Okay, back to reading...

[OneGrassRoot]

11. If he goes with her on The View, that could do it for him....

they'll take her to task and he'll be so pissed at all of them!

I didn't see the whole thing, but when he and Cindy were on GMA yesterday, he looked PISSED that Cindy was talking so much...it was about abortion, and they have conflicting views on that, and he came across as agitated with her.

He can't hold this together much longer; the more conservatives who jump ship, the faster he'll go down.

[DeeDeeNY]

12. If anyone does something awful, it will probably be Cindy

[Hepburn]

14. Have you noticed her body language lately?

It says to me: I am soooooooooooo jealous of Sarah, I am about to reach out and touch her in a VERY unfriendly way.

[Vinca]

13. I've been wondering since he was furious at Carly if he called

her any of his pet names for women. It would be hysterical if she suddenly turned on him and did an anti-McCain ad.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

15. Don't you mean "disappear" her?