Bill Kristol, conservative columnist, has criticized McCain's campaign. Kristol's one of those who's more aligned with Palin. Here's his latest column in the NYT:
He has nothing to lose. His campaign is totally overmatched by Obama’s. The Obama team is well organized, flush with resources, and the candidate and the campaign are in sync. The McCain campaign, once merely problematic, is now close to being out-and-out dysfunctional. Its combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has become toxic. If the race continues over the next three weeks to be a conventional one, McCain is doomed.But now the McCain campaign is eating (video) their own, saying Kristol is just buying the Obama line.
Here's what I think is happening. Some conservatives don't have much joy in their hearts for McCain. They think he's holding back the campaign, or at least that's the excuse for the sad state of the campaign. But they're hot for Palin and her un-Christian like and unpatriotic tactics of using hate language to rally the base.