Over the weekend NPR ran a ridiculous piece on the candidate’s attempts at reaching the hispanic voters; they gave some spokesman for evangelical latino churches endless airtime to point out how Obama couldn’t quite do this or that, while McCain had once said something nice about a guy from Mexico. It achieved the intended effect: muddy the waters, make McCain appear moderate and Obama appear to have random shortcomings (“he’s not old enough”… “his smile is way too sincere…” “he doesn’t have a policy plan for dealing with the Boldurian secessionists…”). Meanwhile, apparently, Krusty McCain just has to tweak his image as a senile old fart with a bad temper and an addiction to rich women, and he’ll be a shoe-in for the job. Riiight.

In other words, the more people get to know Krusty, the less they like him.

Kristol repeated this observation on Fox, one more indication that McCain’s MSM “base,” in response his pathetic campaign, is eventually going to turn on him.

By October the election will look like a scene out of “The Old Man And The Sea” — with Mike Murphy playing the Old Man, and McCain playing the fish.

McCain knows McCain’s campaign sucks. But Mike Murphy will save him. Of course, everyone else in the McCain campaign and the GOP establishment will hate that, since Murphy is the maverick’s maverick. But things will work out. Now, I have a bridge to Brooklyn I just bought last week for sale, cheap.

Tbogg, your’s much better — selling shit as shinola is the essence of Brand GOP, no?

More like: the plane has one engine on fire, the other sputtering. Control authority weak, and he’s barely keeping out of a flat spin. The ground is coming up fast. The pilot would love to blame it on an enemy SAM, but the truth is that he skimped on the pre-flight.

The ejector handle just broke off.

Other than that, everything is looking great! Want some BBQ?

McCain is frustrated. He thinks he can beat Obama (politicians are pretty confident in their own abilities). But he isn’t convinced his campaign can beat Obama’s campaign. He knows that his three-month general election head start was largely frittered away. He understands that his campaign has failed to develop an overarching message. Above all, McCain is painfully aware that he is being diminished by his own campaign.

So, the War Hero is some sort of helpless bystander in his own campaign? He just stands there biting his lip and twisting his hankie while the campaign is frittering, failing and diminishing? Just the kind of take-charge Commander-in-Chief America needs in these troubled times!