John McCain tried to hit it out of the park tonight. It was a bunt. A pop out. A forced out perhaps. In the paraphrased words of Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, he's acting like an angry old man in his bathrobe and slippers, trying to keep kids off the lawn. In tonight's debate, he continued to be erratic, bringing up topics unrelated to the question, reminiscent of one "Caribou Barbie" running mate. Did anyone tell him Palin's son doesn't have autism? For real! He brought up the "no preconditions" argument again, this time talking about Chavez of Venezuela in a debate that had nothing to do with foreign policy. Things he didn't mention surprisingly: POW, Rev. Wright, experience, judgment. Lots of: blinking, scribbling, jaw clenches. I'm no body language expert, but the cool and collected Obama seemed a lot more confident, and the losing McCain was fighting. Always fighting.
When asked about Palin as President, God forbid, he didn't answer the question. Would she be better than Jokin' Joe? His spiel went like this: she's a reformer. She's a maverick, yada, yada, yada. She'll be my partner. We'll fight to make this country great... or whatever. What he didn't say is how she'd stand alone. Because she couldn't possibly! How could he be expected to answer that?! Great question, dumbass answer.
I agree with Chris Matthews about something tonight. You can't belittle the inclusion of the "health of the mother" in the abortion agrument. McCain made some awkward little joke about it, not even well understood by the pundits. Or me. What the hell did he mean by that? Only when death is iminent can you perform abortion? Not her health, only death. Great timing. Maybe when you're coding Mom or watching her seize. Maybe when you're hanging the 10th unit of blood? Maybe not until the 15th? When Senator?!
I'm astounded that the pundits, even on MSNBC :), think McCain wins these things. Pat Buchanan even said tonight, usually the public disagrees with him after all is said and done. Andrea Mitchell: clearly the stongest debate for him by far. What? People see through him. The public knows that he is behind. He needed a one-liner like "I'm not George Bush" and got it out tonight. Fact is though, he is 94% of the time. As Obama pointed out, on the policies that matter now, energy, taxes, the economy, he's voted with Bush and the elephants. It's great to be a maverick on issues like torture and immigration. He prides himself on this idea of breaking from party lines on issues, but when neither side agrees with you, how are you going to get anything done? Joe Lieberman only gives you one vote! (And he's going to be out the next go-round.)
Bring on Keith and Rachel.
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