McCain's Campaign Is Giving Up. They are now just going through the motions to get through this.

[berni_mccoy]

Look and listen to their pundits today. They are not excited. Maybe they are just tired, but I doubt it. The Obama team is tired too. Both campaigns have exerted a great effort. But the internal polls have apparently destroyed their morale. Listening to their staff just two weeks ago and they were angry. They had energy, even if it was negative. Now when I hear them talk, it's like they are too relaxed. But not in a good way. There is a negative tone behind the exhausted speech.

Even McCain is sounding demoralized. I think they realize how bad they screwed up in picking Palin. They can't educate her on how to fill the role. She's just not ready. And they are realizing they can no longer keep that simple truth away from the American people.

Listen carefully next time you hear one of their staff speaking. There is no hope in their voice. It's as if they've already given up and now are just trying to finish the race with a shred of dignity, not knowing if that is even possible anymore.

[tblue]

1. Then let's keep pounding them into the dirt. No mercy. None.

[Wapsie B]

2. That's right. No mercy at all.

[mikeargo]

5. Great line from Paul Newman...

In "The Color of Money": "That's the problem with mercy, kid. It just ain't professional."

[tekisui]

3. Hit 'em again!

And Again!
And Again!
And Again!
And Again!
And Again!
And Again!
And Again!
And Again!

[alsame]

8. Yes, I would like to see the end of the neo-cons in my lifetime.

[UK populist]

12. You will never see the end of the Neo-cons because

They are Hawks and they can claim victory in any outcome. Look at Russia-Georgia they instigated that conflict by pushing Georgia to invade the separatist enclaves either thinking Russia wouldn't invade or they new they would invade. Now if you say they thought Russia wouldn't invade they could have said that see the pressure on Russia is paying off and we were right. Now the reality is that Russia did invade and now they are saying look we told you Russia is a serious threat and now you need to listen to us more. Hence as long as they have a mouth piece they will always be part of the overall picture.

[KansDem]

15. Let's all adopt Joe's strategy for debating Repubs till November 5th!!!

Hell, even after that!

Joe's strategy for debating Repubs

I've had it with neo-con Repubs!

[DCBob]

19. As Carville has famously said "when your opponent is sinking, throw him an anvil"

[TwilightGardener]

4. Oh, no, they're going to rally, try to bring the race closer, try to regain

the momentum through a gaffe, a hissyfit, an international crisis, or just plain Wright/Rezko/Ayers/Muslim crap. McLame-ass will sell his mother to the circus to be Preznit, he's already proven that. He's just coming up with his next barrage of attacks or his next hail-mary stunt.

[C_U_L8R]

6. McCain's compass is still up his ass

[Submariner]

7. Let's not get cocky friends

I just saw a cheap shot McNuts ad claiming "Obama not ready" while showing Iraq scene and soldier armored up carrying his rifle. McNuts will probably go for the macho white guy vote and sling this crap for the rest of the month. McNuts has nowhere to go but the gutter now.

[jkshaw]

9. I agree that we can't afford to become cocky,

Submariner. But I also remember,in my many readings about the Franklin Delano Roosevelt campaign against Herbert Hoover, that toward the end of Hoover's trips across the country, Hoover simply gave up. He'd come out on the train platform or sit in the back of the car, and wave at the few people waiting to greet him. No speeches. He'd stopped trying and was just going through the motions. Every time I read a story about McCain looking tired, acting tired, his drooping left eye, his many gaffes, I think of Hoover during the last days of that 1932 campaign.

McCain's campaign, though, will get uglier and uglier, dirtier and dirtier. And the Obama campaign has to counter every jab or some of the muck might easily stick.

[Submariner]

18. That's an uplifting campaign anecdote

Didn't know that about Hoover. I also see McCain running out of gas on the road, where Obama is a young energizer bunny who will probably sprint to the finish line.

Tomorrow's Palin performance will set the tone for the next month.

Our greatest nervousness now is an orchestrated October surprise by Bushco to scare voters toward McCain.

[jkshaw]

10. I agree that we can't afford to become cocky,

Submariner. But I also remember,in my many readings about the Franklin Delano Roosevelt campaign against Herbert Hoover, that toward the end of Hoover's trips across the country, Hoover simply gave up. He'd come out on the train platform or sit in the back of the car, and wave at the few people waiting to greet him. No speeches. He'd stopped trying and was just going through the motions. Every time I read a story about McCain looking tired, acting tired, his drooping left eye, his many gaffes, I think of Hoover during the last days of that 1932 campaign.

McCain's campaign, though, will get uglier and uglier, dirtier and dirtier. And the Obama campaign has to counter every jab or some of the muck might easily stick.

[orwell]

16. And Hoover still got 40% of the vote...n/t

[Faygo Kid]

11. I heard Hannity today. He lives in a parallel universe now. Bizarre.

In Hannityworld, the Republicans are the passionate regulators who are stopped from regulating by the free-enterprise, anything-goes Democrats.

It was ridiculous. He's just playing to his audience now; even Hannity has given up trying to convert sane America.

[Marsala]

14. When Obama wins, let's destroy the portal and strand Hannity there

He can stay in that other dimension spouting nonsense and becoming increasingly irrelevant.

[Peacetrain]

17. He thinks the republicans were the regulators???

:wow: delusional does not even cover it

[cyr330]

13. It's NOT possible

for them to finish the campaign with even a hint of dignity. They have NO dignity. They have lied and have smeared Obama the entire time, and McCain picked the most unqualified moron possible while claiming to put "country first." What a load of horse shit.