A Powell-McCain Deal on Wright? TNR floats a rumor...

[jefferson_dem]

A Powell-McCain Deal on Wright?
from The Stump by Noam Scheiber

Commenter vernezze has an intriguing if somewhat conspiratorial theory for why McCain won't mention Jeremiah Wright (one that plays to one of the Stump's pet fascinations, no less):

Call me crazy (but at least wait until you read the post) but I believe that Powell has made a deal with McCain. I will not endorse Obama in this election if you do not bring up Wright. How else to explain the dog that does not bark in the face of very favorable things he has said about Obama in the past and the adumbrations from reliable sources that a Powell endorsement for Obama was on the way? ... I admit that the only evidence I can claim I get from Sherlock Holmes: when all else has been eliminated, what remains, no matter how unlikely, must be the case. Of course, events could disprove all this should either McCain start the Wright attack or Powell come out in favor of Obama. But until that point, I am sticking to my guns.

I've heard crazier things.

--Noam Scheiber

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/10/10/a-powell-mccain-deal-on-wright.aspx

[gateley]

1. I don't buy it. just my gut feeling. nt

[mikiturner]

2. Interesting conspiracy

So the question would be, does McCain think the traction he'd get with running with Wright would be washed away by a Powell announcement.

[rucky]

3. Naw. they decided to go with the Muslin thing

which can't exist side-by-side with the Wright thing.

[high density]

4. I don't see why Colin Powell cares about Rev. Wright

Or Barack Obama for that matter.

[SurfingAtWork]

5. I think the explanation is far more simple.

Back in the summer he chastised one of the states (I forget which one) GOP for using Wright. If he used it himself, at the least he'd have to admit he was wrong to do that or at most he would appear to be more of a hypocrite than he already is.

[hvn_nbr_2]

6. Sherlock Holmes, this guy decidedly ain't.

when all else has been eliminated, what remains, no matter how unlikely, must be the case.

Well, I could probably think of ten other more plausible reasons that haven't been eliminated yet. If this guy thinks that explanation is the only one left, then he has a very small imagination, and he very easily believes his own limited imagination.

[Occam Bandage]

7. I think McCain is just building up to Wright, personally. He'll try to recreate

the media frenzy Hillary was able to build.