Is someone in the GOP trying to torpedo McCain's campaign???

[Hell Hath No Fury]

McCain's nomination win was not at all popular with many in the larger GOP machine -- there were many articles that talked about the unhappiness at the time. There were also rumblings that the GOP was writing off the 2008 election and banking on the Dems crashing for 4 years, paving the way for a GOP rout in 2012.

McCain hired the same dicks who successfully took him out in 2000.

The reports are that McCain didn't want Palin, rather she was pushed on him -- and did the pusher(s) know that she was a ticking time bomb waiting to go off in McCains' face??

Is there a Iago in his camp, advising him with the intent of killing his campaign??

[HereSince1628]

1. Yes. And his name is John McCain

[corkhead]

2. his manchurian candidate programming went off too early,

He wasn't supposed to destroy everything he touches until AFTER he gets in office.

DOH!

[Brigid]

5. A candidate for the next DUzys.

:rofl:

[Native]

3. I'd say this has credence except for one really BIG thing - McCain's ego.

[AuntPatsy]

4. are you watching msnbc, there is no one there?

[MarjorieG]

6. Possible, because this decision is so bad. Read initially that Grover said okay.

[Native]

7. Second thought - you're right on most counts, except . . .

they didn't have to engineer it to the degree you mentioned, they just let McCain do what they knew he'd do. In other words, Iago is there - he just doesn't have to work as hard as one would assume.

[jberryhill]

8. Yes and No

Either he wants to be able to keep the money, but ditch the candidate foisted on him by the religious nutters.

Or some Romney and Lieberman folks are pretty sharp.

This is not the VP choice they wanted, and someone has reached for this button:

[saltpoint]

9. A convergence of lethal variables has descended on the Republicans

this cycle.

As mentioned upthread, there's McCain's ego. Too big for its britches. Far too many sunday news shows. Way too full of himself as a "war hero."

McCain has always had more ego than substance. Bad imbalance in a public servant.

I'm guessing he was under enormous pressure to choose Palin. He might have been assured that she'd been properly vetted and that he had nothing to worry about except the young folks' romance.

The Far Right likely squawked like wounded animals until they were assured the pick would be fundie-friendly. But they may have gotten more than they bargained for with Palin. Her church appears to endorse glossalalia. Dig it, Jim Dobson.

Hard-core Republican operatives didn't give McCain much of a strong chance prior to the Democratic Convention. Now, with the Democratic Convention concluded as a great triumph and the questionable pick of Sarah Palin, the same operatives are likely thinking, "Geez, this is several miles up shit's creek and not a paddle in sight."

The media are buying into the auxilliary scandals, in fragmented fashion, surrounding Palin. As the days of this week go by, that likely isn't a very good sign for the Republican ticket.

Bush and Cheney won't be there, or if they come for brief appearances, aren't likely to be lauded. They've done more than their share to make the GOP's chances of victory this fall a very steep climb.

If there is a plant in the McCain campaign trying to subvert it, there's evidence that it's work well done, since the campaign is stumbling all over itself. And said sabotage would take place as delegates stand on the convention floor defending McCain and Palin and of course unknown to Bristol and her boyfriend. The Republicans are into control, and they're especially into secret control.

It doesn't seem to me that there's very much to cheer about for Republican delegates in the Twin Cities. And these are the people who have to fly home, picking up a copy of the latest PEOPLE magazine at the airport, and then return to their respective districts to "fire up" the GOP base. The base is busy scratching their heads about the two people who wound up on their ticket.

Advantage Obama-Biden.

[thereismore]

10. God. nt