McCain Doesn't Deserve to Win

McCain has run a dreadful campaign but perhaps the worst thing he's done is assault Obama's character so much, that his supporters bought all the lies coming out of the republican party. They've become a mob.

Now it seems every McCain supporter says Obama is a communist, which is totally absurd. We've seen masses of people get suckered before our very eyes. We've seen their mob mentality building. This shouldn't be underestimated.

Both candidates have been engaged in negative campaigning but there's a difference between Obama's negative ads and McCain's negative ads.

McCain's exploit people's fears to assault Obama's character. Obama's assaults McCain's policies. See the difference. One is saying the other is a secret Muslim who hangs with terrorists and is going to usher in communism. The other says the other guy is going to be bad for the economy.

McCain should be embarrassed of his campaign. But perhaps, like George Bush, he's in a bubble and doesn't know what's become of it. Maybe he hasn't seen the rage of his supporters.

Now it seems Palin's ego is so inflated that she's spinning off. She is not fit or worthy to be president. Heck, she's not even fit to be governor of Alaska:

Politico: Even as John McCain and Sarah Palin scramble to close the gap in the final days of the 2008 election, stirrings of a Palin insurgency are complicating the campaign's already-tense internal dynamics.

Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them. Those Palin supporters, inside the campaign and out, said Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image — even as others in McCain's camp blame the pick of the relatively inexperienced Alaska governor, and her public performance, for McCain's decline.

"She's lost confidence in most of the people on the plane," said a senior Republican who speaks to Palin, referring to her campaign jet. He said Palin had begun to "go rogue" in some of her public pronouncements and decisions.

"I think she'd like to go more rogue," he said. Read more about the divisions within the campaign.

I'd also like to add that McCain Palin supporters ought to be considering an Obama win and they ought to figure out how they'll behave if he does win and they ought to choose to let it go.

McCain's Brother Lashes out at Campaign

This is kind of reminding me of Hillary's primary campaign.
Joe McCain called Virginia suburbs "communist country," so now you know what kind of guy he is.

Swamp: Joe McCain, portraying himself as a sailor ringing a warning bell, describes the campaign team "poring over plans and maps and high-minded thoughts" while his brother's presidential ship steams toward treacherous waters.

Joe is particularly critical of top campaign officials (unnamed) who "so tightly 'control the message'" that they have cut the press off from those who know the candidate best (presumably including his brother). Joe McCain, who notes that he once was a reporter and has worked in campaign press shops, calls these news-management efforts "counter-intuitive, counter-experiential, and counter-productive."

Joe goes on to say that the decision to clamp down on press contact with intimates of the Arizona senator is "causing gangrene. It has gradually bled away all the good will that this great man had from the press, for he alone among politicians would talk to them openly, without finesse, without guile."

Reporters, he notes, once returned the affection "regardless of their political lean . . . they loved him nonetheless."

Part of his email:

This portrayal of John McCain as a scrapper, as an alley fighter so far in these debates and these TV ads misses a much higher calling that he has - to a distant hill where he will put behind him the scrap yards and the greed and will lead this land to a higher plane. For of all of John's many qualities - fighter, scholar, communer, reflector - the highest is vision and hope and ethics and a pull to the light, for John McCain knows where we came from, where we stumbled, where we were confused , and where we lit beacons to all other people who dream of sweeter things and a better place.

Let John McCain be John McCain, a Great Warrior and Leader of Men and Women, who sees a distant shore where the best of this land can gather and put behind them the scrapping and the greed and the disingenuous to pick up the markers left for us by the great men of our history, from Henry, Paine, Jefferson, Washington, Madison to Lincoln, the first Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Reagan. Men immune from the petty temptations to acquire wealth from the citizens for they saw a much brighter reward - to lead and to uplift. Full email here.

Yikes.