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“What are we going to do?”

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Implosion:

Breaking News from Big Eddie:
McCain Camp insiders say Palin “clueless”
Capitol Hill sources are telling me that senior McCain people are more than concerned about Palin. The campaign has held a mock debate and a mock press conference; both are being described as “disastrous.” One senior McCain aide was quoted as saying, “What are we going to do?” The McCain people want to move this first debate to some later, undetermined date, possibly never. People on the inside are saying the Alaska Governor is “clueless.”

Awesome!
Popcorn, anyone?
Need a bailout strategy, Senator?

Update: Gonna add the Rumormongering category to this post. It’s not like we have anything to go on by Shultz here.

Update II:

An Ohio farmer would like to invite you to get lost inside the head of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Appropriate, since everything else seems to have gotten lost in there.

Update III: Even if Sarah Palin can’t win a debate, McCain can. In fact, he’s already won tonight’s debate!!

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  2. 2.

    Comrade Zifnab

    And he’ll still be getting a solid 40+% of the vote. The Republican Party could nominate a rolled-up newspaper and a hard-boiled egg against a Democratic ticket of George Washington / Jesus, and it would still be a relatively close race in this country.

  4. 4.

    Rome Again

    Of course she is.

    I’m so looking forward to watching them freak out throughout the rest of the campaign.

    And since McCain is supposedly leaving soon for Mississippi, I guess that means Palin has to face the scary debate monster next. :)

  7. 7.

    kid bitzer

    yup. nyt says mccain agrees to be at the debate.

    i’d say senator john blinked. he bluffed, and got his bluff called.

    could be good tonight.

  9. 9.

    fuddmain

    Heard someone say yesterday that Palin suffers from Magnetic Poetry Speech Syndrome. Heh.

    Two words for these panicking McCain people: Vetting Process.

  10. 10.

    Rome Again

    Ummm, if McCain never actually says “time in” is he still on time out and what happens if he does anything that looks like campaigning?

    Does he ever actually go on tv and say “I no longer suspend my campaign”? I’m just trying to get the official lowdown because I don’t think I’ve ever seen a suspended campaign before.

  12. 12.

    CountryFirst

    McCain has put the country first.

    That’s why he picked a nice country girl to be his running mate. A woman of the people, a plain spoken, simple girl who will apply commonsense judgment to our problems.

  13. 13.

    Sock Puppet of the Great Satan

    “The Republican Party could nominate a rolled-up newspaper and a hard-boiled egg”

    That’d be a distinct improvement, actually. You could read the newspaper. Although the egg would be a dilemma for the GOP factions: use it in a potato salad (theocon), or eat it on its own with salt (moneycon), or use it in a toasted egg salad sandwich (paleocon), or load it into an ICBM and launch it at Iran (neocon).

  14. 14.

    Lie baby, lie!

    Well, duh! We could have told McInsane she was clueless within a few days after he announced her as his pick. Sure proves he’s not up to the task. Imagine him running the White House the way he runs his campaign? If he wins, America and the world is screwed.

  15. 15.

    CountryFirst

    I don’t think I’ve ever seen a suspended campaign before.

    By suspended, he meant that he would leave it hanging while he makes sure that the people are properly represented in the rush to bail out the money changers.

  16. 16.

    Mary

    McCain has a bullshit statement out.

    John McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign was made in the hopes that politics could be set aside to address our economic crisis. …

    The difference between Barack Obama and John McCain was apparent during the White House meeting yesterday where Barack Obama’s priority was political posturing in his opening monologue defending the package as it stands. John McCain listened to all sides so he could help focus the debate on finding a bipartisan resolution that is in the interest of taxpayers and homeowners. The Democratic interests stood together in opposition to an agreement that would accommodate additional taxpayer protections.

    I know how you can raise the money to get out of this hole. Offer the populace a chance to literally kick John McCain’s ass for $10 a go. Hell, give the entire world a chance to join in. We foreigners can’t officially contribute to political campaigns, but I think we can get away with calling his black-and-blue heinie a tourist attraction. Deal?

  18. 18.

    TheFountainHead

    So does Obama open up with: “Thank you Jim, and I’d like to thank the University of Mississippi for graciously hosting us tonight. I’m also grateful to Senator McCain for making time in his busy pander-schedule for our little Presidential debate.”

  19. 19.

    Comrade The Moar You Know

    People on the inside are saying the Alaska Governor is “clueless.”

    No one could have predicted that a Generation X beauty contest winner runner-up of the Pentecostal persuasion would prove to be “clueless”.

    I’m only two years younger that Sarah. I went to high school with people like her, insuffrable Young Lifers who spent all their time undercutting each other and who never grew up after graduation day. Most of them today are existing one step above welfare and cannot comprehend why they are not rich and beautiful. They are largely unemployable, vote Republican no matter what, and are some of the stupidest people in existence.

    I’ll say this for Ms. Palin; unlike most of her Jesus-freak contemporaries, she managed somehow to avoid getting grotesquely fat, although she did successfully follow the rest of the template perfectly, what with getting knocked up at seventeen.

    GG, McCain.

  21. 21.

    gbear

    i’d say senator john blinked. he bluffed, and got his bluff called.

    When life calls your bluff, declare victory. I win!

    That’s his story, and he’s sticking to it. For now. Until it needs to change. And I never said those things.

  22. 22.

    patrick

    How do you know this wasn’t strategically leaked? maybe they’re trying to set the bar so artificially low that even a poor to mediocre performance by her in the debate will then be touted as exceptional?

  23. 23.

    Rome Again

    By suspended, he meant that he would leave it hanging while he makes sure that the people are properly represented in the rush to bail out the money changers.

    Oh, so it was hanging but not really shut down…

    Good morning, btw…

    I understand we have about 568.3 minutes before the big event.

  24. 24.

    jeffreyw

    McSame is gonna need to shake off the notion he has been grandstanding on the bail out. Perhaps he can arrive at the debate venue via parachute with a smoke and mirrors grenade tied to his boot.

  25. 25.

    Comrade The Moar You Know

    kid bitzer Says:

    yup. nyt says mccain agrees to be at the debate.

    i’d say senator john blinked. he bluffed, and got his bluff called.

    could be good tonight.

    I think they’ll both do fine tonight, but tonight is not realy the debate I’m looking forward to so much. The McCain – or rather, the Palin campaign is fucked but good now. I think all they’ve got left is to pray that no one watches the VP debate next week. Biden will serve the Ditzacuda her own ass on a platter.

  26. 26.

    liberal

    Comrade Zifnab wrote,

    And he’ll still be getting a solid 40+% of the vote. The Republican Party could nominate a rolled-up newspaper and a hard-boiled egg against a Democratic ticket of George Washington / Jesus, and it would still be a relatively close race in this country.

    I was just looking at a breakdown of Bush’s approval rating, and among Rethuglicans it was still 57% approve, 29% disapprove. (FOX News poll)

  27. 27.

    Equal Opportunity Cynic

    How do you know this wasn’t strategically leaked? maybe they’re trying to set the bar so artificially low that even a poor to mediocre performance by her in the debate will then be touted as exceptional?

    Precisely. If this comments section is representative of the left/center/sane blogosphere, it seems to be a good approach for McCain.

  28. 28.

    Margarita

    People on the inside are saying the Alaska Governor is “clueless.”

    Wait, wait. Don’t tell me.

    Now when Palin doesn’t soil herself and start sobbing right before she faints and chokes on her own vomit in a puddle of flop sweat, she will have exceeded all expectations and hence WON THE DEBATE!

    Jesus H. Christ, how many times are we going to play the same goddamn game? Talk about Lucy and the football.

  29. 29.

    mercurino

    thanks to patrick, cynic, and margarita for pointing out the obvious. this kind of leak is absolute bullshit.

    c’mon michael, get a clue.

  31. 31.

    HyperIon

    c’mon michael, get a clue.

    c’mon mercurino, get a clue.
    he’s been posting crap like this ever since his snarky Craig line got him his gig here.

  33. 33.

    DonkeyKong

    The hail mary of all hail may’s would be to replace Sarah Palin with Bristol’s fetus. I’m sure steve shmuck is polling that as we speak.

    “The New York Times is trying to abort Bristol’s fetus” will be the attack they use.

  34. 34.

    tBone

    Now when Palin doesn’t soil herself and start sobbing right before she faints and chokes on her own vomit in a puddle of flop sweat, she will have exceeded all expectations and hence WON THE DEBATE!

    Why are you assuming Palin isn’t going to soil herself and start sobbing right before she faints and chokes on her own vomit in a puddle of flop sweat? She came close in an interview with Katie Fuckin’ Couric, for God’s sake.

    I think Palin will “exceed expectations” if she doesn’t spontaneously combust the first time Biden opens his mouth. That doesn’t mean anyone is going to be hailing her performance. Even Republicans have limits to their turd-polishing abilities.

  35. 35.

    jake

    Even Republicans have limits to their turd-polishing abilities.

    Only because their arms are a bit tired after eight years of Bush.

  36. 36.

    oh really

    My concern is Biden. Palin may be so pathetic that people feel sorry for her. But Joe is rarely a sympathetic figure.
    Obama is fortunate that the collapse of our economy is diverting attention from Biden, who has more than lived up to his reputation for being a constant source of gaffes. It also helps that everyone already knew what a buffoon Biden is, so he’s just living up (down) to expectations. Palin, on the other hand, was an unknown. Anyone who has seen her interviews knows that she is an idiot with no qualifications for high office (I’d include being governor of Alaska as high office).

    It’s possible that Biden will behave and in the process reveal the naked empress for all the world to see. If so, the debate could help Obama by showing what an idiot McCain was/is to have chosen her. I’m desperately hoping for that Biden, because the other Biden — the one normally on display — could turn a huge win into, at best, a determination that neither presidential candidate exercised good judgment in choosing a running mate. A determination that would, sadly, be true.

  37. 37.

    Comrade Grumpy Code Monkey

    TBogg came up with one of the better names for Palin: “Bible Spice.”

    I still like Caribou Barbie better.

  39. 39.

    Kerry Reid

    I think that the farmer should have used a hay field for his tribute, for that beautiful symmetry between subject and medium.

  40. 40.

    Ash Can

    Sock Puppet of the Great Satan Says:

    “The Republican Party could nominate a rolled-up newspaper and a hard-boiled egg”

    That’d be a distinct improvement, actually. You could read the newspaper. Although the egg would be a dilemma for the GOP factions: use it in a potato salad (theocon), or eat it on its own with salt (moneycon), or use it in a toasted egg salad sandwich (paleocon), or load it into an ICBM and launch it at Iran (neocon).

    LOLWICHES!

  41. 41.

    Gemina13

    How do you know this wasn’t strategically leaked? maybe they’re trying to set the bar so artificially low that even a poor to mediocre performance by her in the debate will then be touted as exceptional?

    To get it any lower than Palin’s disastrous performance with Couric (another “brain trust”), they’d have to dig to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

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