McCain/Palin's "Jumping the Shark" moment of Self-Destruction (please input)

[Suji to Seoul]

Please expand on the questions below: I would love DUers attitudes on this:

1. Has it happened yet? If so what was it?

2. If it hasn't, will it and what will it look like?

3: What acts of desperation do you see coming from the McFailin ticket?


To me, the jumping the shark moment of self-destruction was nominating Sarah Palin. That was the point of no return.

The last act of desperation by the McFailin campaign will come after Obama buys his time on all four major UHF networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox). I just don't know what he will do.

[BlooInBloo]

1. His picking Palin... (and our ignoring the fucking whiny handwringers...

... and talking about Palin).

[msanthrope]

2. No jump the shark moment will ever happen for them--Why?

To quote a poster whose name I cannot recall, you first must be cool. Then you jump the shark---like Fonzie.

McCain/Palin? Pretty much Potsie from the start.

[stoge18]

3. Awesome.

Thanks for posting this and kudos to the person who came up with it. I was about to say picking Palin was the JTS moment, and then I read your post.

[Faygo Kid]

4. I think the whole "suspend my campaign" bailout thing was the end

Oh sure, Palin is a disaster. But I sense that when Americans were looking for leadership, they found it in Obama, and McCain totally lost it with his gimmicky "suspend my campaign" crap, then he played zero role in the whole bailout thing.

That was the end. The Palin pick just adds dirt over the corpse.

[NightWatcher]

5. when McSame ditched Letterman

it has been all downhill since then. Not too terribly of a campaign-crushing move, but it was at the time that began to see him fall from tied to 10-12 points down. Plus that was the first real time that someone in the spolight just ripped into him in the way that we all have wanted to see.

[alfredo]

9. If that didn't kill the campaign, it closed the lid on its casket.

[paulthompson]

6. I dunno...

But this is a good excuse for me to post these pics. :) Honestly, I feel like the entire McCain campaign has been one big "jump the shark" moment.

[norepubsin08]

7. Nope...to me...

the defining moment was the week when McCain tried to "help" with the bailout and his own party told him to butt out, and he "suspended his campaign" and flip-flopped on debating. The Tina Fey skits aren't helping his campaign either and that goes for the nightly Jon Stewart dispensation or the "news"

[qanda]

8. Palin jumped the shark when Tina Fey nailed her interview with Katie

I would say that it was the interview with Couric but more people probably saw Tina Fey than saw Palin.

[marions ghost]

10. Stocks plunge, bailout of Wall Street at taxpayer's expense....?

Fear grips everyone from the Sixpacks to the Cleavers.

People see their 401K's affected and credit drying up while Wall Street gets a bailout plan? (And they don't buy that bailing out Wall Street will help them). Seems to be when it occurred, and McCain's campaign suspend maneuver looked very suspicious and then after that he let the pork-laden bill go thru. So no cred in the economic crisis for McCain while Obama steals the ball without hardly trying. Doubtful the Rethugs can do anything before the election to change the course of the game after this little "setback."

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Headlines for September 30, 2008 (Democracy Now)
House Rejects $700 Billion Bailout

In defiance of President Bush and party leaders, the House on Monday rejected a $700 billion bailout of the financial industry. By a 228-to-205 vote, a coalition of mostly liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans joined together to block what would have been the largest corporate bailout in US history.
Dow Falls Record 778 Points; Stocks Lose $1.2 Trillion

The vote shocked many investors. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell nearly 778 points—its worst single-day point loss ever. Stocks lost $1.2 trillion in value on Monday in what is being described as Wall Street’s blackest day since the 1987 crash. Despite the setback, President Bush said a new relief package for Wall Street will be put forward.