Yes, we can.

[Tenigma]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I'm worried that this will happen:
The October surprise will be Palin announcing she is dropping out to spend more time with her family. McCain replaces her with someone like Mitt Romney. This reignites the McCain base and gives him the oomph to win the election.
It's Rove-ian. I wouldn't put it past them...

Too many twists and turns on this journey already. All it shows to me is that McCain is impetuous and is not ready (or is too old and flumoxed) to lead our country. He probably would've been way better than Bush had he won in 2000. But I think he's past his time.

Whether Palin drops out may really depend on how she does in the debates tomorrow. If she does relatively OK (which I predict she will), she will be bolstered enough to stay. If she is as bad as she was with Katie Couric, then I think their numbers will drop even further and it will be really embarrassing.

The thing is, Palin galvanized the Republican core, strengthened the female conservative vote. If you replace Palin with either Romney or Huckabee, McCain will alienate that very core, and it will be total chaos. I don't know that he will be able to recover.

I really blame McCain in all this. It reminds me a lot of Team Hillary in the last months leading up to the last primary elections... she got thrown a curve ball after the February primaries and she never fully recovered, and she wound up with very little game plan except to mostly lob overripe tomatoes at Obama.

McCain seems to be changing and morphine every day. It's hard to keep up, and this is coming from someone who reads (or at least skims the headlines) multiple times a day. I mean, he made a HUGE deal about postponing the campaign to go and be the hero and get the bailout bill passed. He threatened to not attend the debate. Obama didn't bite. McCain finally gives in and shows up, and then McCain goes "back to Washington" but he's actually caught out of town when the vote finally came down... and it didn't pass. And then his team had the temerity to blame "Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and the other Democrats" for the failure of the bill, when in fact it was his own inability to rein in his own party members.

There are a lot of TRUE conservative Republicans in Congress and neither Bush nor McCain has their support. Forget "bipartisan," McCain is simply disliked by most in Congress, it seems; and he sounds like the inept high school principal nobody listens to while everyone's busy having a food fight in the cafeteria.

All of this makes him look b-a-d. Swapping Palin with a Huckabee or Romney is not going to help. He's quickly running out of footballs to toss for his Hail Marys.

...I wouldn't put it past him to pull ANY stunt at this point, but to me it just shows how they're completely devolving.