McCain In Free-Fall

Thanks to his running mate's incendiary remarks about Barack Obama's nonassociation with a radical terrorist living in his neighborhood and the paranoia of his own supporters, John McCain's campaign is in a free fall, having encouraged fear and paranoia over Obama and having people believing the Democratic candidate is a dangerous Muslim who should be, uh, neutralized, and that his skin color and his name make him, er, hard to relate to. When it became apparent that McCain's own campaign was inspiring such hatred, the Republican nominee tried to calm his supporters and discourage hateful rhetoric about Obama. He looked pretty ashen and shaken in trying to quell a voter in Minnesota Friday night.

McCain is now trying to right his campaign, two days ahead of his last debate with Obama, espousing as-yet undefined economic policies that he hopes will repudiate the last eight years of an administration he consistently supported in the Senate to get his party's presidential nomination. His campaign has gotten so bad, Republicans are reacting by attacking it.

Republicans.

Meanwhile, Sarah Palin is promising that she and McCain will run a reformist administration, even as revelations of corruption in her tenure as governor of Alaska are being exposed by the day.

With the Dow up by over 900 points today after massive intervention by Western governments in the global financial crisis, McCain's best hope is that the rally on Wall Street will make people think the economy is already improving and that changing to a Democratic President is unnecessary.

Not likely . . .