This is the problem with PR guys running political campaigns. Voters want to know the candidates. They can’t get to know the candidates if they hide behind your press releases and talking points. They then become nothing more than walking billboards. That’s not real personal and it’s not real clever. The fact that the McCain campaign billed these two faux “mavericks” as maverick was a big surprise to begin with. Now one of them acts like a maverick and the party wants to act like she’s throwing the election.
The fact is, McCain and Palin are going to lose. I think they know it. I think they’ve given up. And now they are looking for someone to blame. They will likely blame each other. Or the McCain aides will blame Palin and Palin will blame the campaign aides. Either way, the Party loses. It’ll serve them right.
You can’t put two mavericks on the same ticket. If you do, one of them is going to bust out and outshine the other. Like Patton against his rivals during WWII. Sure enough, one of them did.
I’ve been hoping throughout this election cycle that John McCain would break out and say what he’s really wanting to be saying so that I could have a reason to vote for him. Instead, he’s been a wuss and his running mate, the female moose hunter from Alaska, is the one who broke out. Only it wasn’t her place to do so. She should have stayed in her position and supported her man. That’s what she was there for. Now she will go down in history as the one who drove the steak into the heart of the McCain campaign. Serves ‘em all right. Mavericks my ass.
