Cross-posted at Eclectablog.
I knew that the McCain campaign was getting desperate but, holy shit, I had no idea he'd go this far off the deep end.
There's no question that he had a bad day last week with the whole "fundamentals are strong/the financial world is ending" flip-flop. And the whole "no fucking way we're bailing out AIG/we totally need to bail out AIG" flip-flop. And the whole "I'm fundamentally a deregulator/by God, we need more goddamn regulation" flip-flop. And the whole "Barack Obama has never done anything of consequence in Congress/this is all Barack Obama's fault" flip-flop. And the whole impulsive "we need to fire the SEC head" gaffe. And the Wall Street Journal is calling him an idiot. And George Will is calling him an idiot.
And then there's the media completely turning on him and Sarah Palin because he hasn't had a press conference or press "availability" in over a month and she has been on the ticket for over three weeks and hasn't had a single unscripted encounter with the press pool on the campaign trail.
But it actually gets worse after the jump...
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