John McCain continues to run the most pathetic, insulting, desperate, and erratic campaign in modern history. That would be merely disappointing, but the reality is that America is sitting on numerous, Republican-created crises and McCain seems willing to roll the dice regardless of the costs.
On Wednesday, John McCain's campaign grabbed at drama to cover up their skyrocketing desperation. McCain was (and continues) tanking in the polls, Sarah Palin's second major television interview was proving wincingly embarrassing to everyone except the witchdoctor set, and John McCain and his uber-lobbyist Campaign Manager had been caught in a major lie. As with hurricane Gustav, George W. Bush's appearance at the convention and his selection of an unknown, untested governor as his running mate, McCain put it all on RED and rolled the dice. 
When McCain cut Bush out of the Convention, the bet paid off, he saved himself momentarily from playing in to the McBush meme. When McCain announced Palin as his running mate, the gamble paid off, he didn't expand his political reach, but he did rally the base. This time, however, McCain rolled snake eyes.
By claiming to suspend his campaign, which he didn't, by promising to craft a congressional deal to address the Wall Street crisis, which he destroyed, and by promising not to debate without a plan, a pledge on which he has now caved, McCain bet the farm. It wasn't only his campaign that he put on the craps table, it was the entire US economy, your future, your children's future and the future of the greatest nation in the history of the world. He lost. He lost big time. Now it's time for McCain to pay.
McCain is a loser. He bet everything on his erratic grandstand and now he's going to pay. His entire campaign has lost credibility. He is now seen as incapable of rational thought, or reasonable action. He is the most erratic candidate in the history of American politics. McCain has lost the conservative intellectuals, the independents and voters across the country. Without a grandslam victory in tonight's debate, McCain's campaign is now all over.
A time of unprecedented national instability is no time to elect a president of unprecedented instability. A shaky hand may be good for the craps table, but it's too dangerous for the ship of state.
More on McCain's addiction to craps here, here, here, and here
I'd say it's a wash.
It's not the gambling, it's the character flaw in the one addicted, like McCain, that gives me political pause. There's risk-taking and then there's risk-taking; the death-wish kind of the impulsive, addicted individual is not what I want leading my country, thank you.
I agree with you on McCain. Chancing everything on one roll of the die is ludicrous in this type of event, and downright disastrous for a country if such a man is leading it. He's not playing at the $5 table right now; he shouldn't be making these kinds of bets.
JM's
Points to Remember RE: Economy
1)Know when to hold up
2)Know when to fold up
3)Know when to walk away
4)Know when to run
Apparently he is working on point 4.
(o.k...its really lyrics from "The Gambler")