Sarah Palin is the future of the Republican Party says Phyllis Schlafly (see my blog for 3 min. video: http://www.thetruthaboutterror.org/blog/election-2008/the-pathetic-public-pimping-of-palin/)

Karl Rove is raising the red alert signal. He said if the election was held today, Barack Obama would win the presidency based upon the electoral votes needed (270). Virtually every poll has Obama leading and nearing, if not passed, the "magic" number of 270 necessary to be elected president.

Of course that could be just a tactic by Rove to motivate the GOP to show up at the polls in force.
But John McCain seems to take a more lax attitude toward the whole thing. Since choosing Palin as his running mate, he's decided to kick back and let her do most of the heavy lifting. On most every weekend sicne the GOP Convention, McCain has taken weekends off.
Of course, I'm the only person in the nation who believes that McCain deliberately chose a secret VP like Palin in order to sabotage his own campaign.
But now McCain's making folks in his own party think like me! The GOP has announced that McCain's campaign is pulling out of Michigan. But they hope the consituency there will continue working on his behalf ... apparently so it doesn't look like the toss towel that it is! The folks in Michigan aren't too happy about it and Republicans in that state are wondering why the heck they should keep on fighting when the "war hero" is waving the white flag!
Falling like dominoes in a financial crisis, traditional GOP states, like Virginia, are worried that McCain doesn't really care about winning the White House (like I said weeks ago). He's only held ONE campaign rally in Virginia since he hid behind Sarah Palin's skirt and he's pulled his advertising off the Washington D.C. airwaves, which covers Virginia.
McCain's bumbling blunder leading up to his first debate with Obama has escalated into the notion that he has an "erratic" approach to leadership in the face of a crisis. If you will recall, McCain excused himself from the debate and even "suspended" his campaign, presumably to fly to Washington and sit in a room and make a few phone calls.
Nothing McCain did amounted to anything significant in progressing Bush's bailout bill. And if it had, he would've had to explain why he was a willing patsy to quit his campaign and rush to help his buddy Dubya pitch a softball-sized boondoggle to the American public in the waning moments of the Bush administration.
Now, McCain isn't so much seen as a Maverick as a Shetland Pony trotting around giving free rides to Bush's White House advisors that populate his campaign, much to his chagrin.
GOP conservatives have turned against him. Eagle Forum leader, Phyllis Schlafly emphatically denied that McCain was leading the party. She said he is being led by GOP conservatives who fervently believe that Sarah Palin is the future of the GOP while McCain is part of the past ... a past riddled with "mistakes" as she refers to the Bush administration, thus linking old McCain with his buddy Dubya.
So, where is the mainstream media's in-depth analysis of how the McCain campaign is deserting its duty, dividing the party, being led rather than leading, pulling up stakes where McCain ought to be pounding the pavement and taking time off to rest while Palin carries the load?
Can Palin provide enough push to propel a pathetic old man across the finish line? Her own pitiful performance in the vice presidential debates suggests not a chance. But given the GOP's raucous reception of this unknown woman, and its dismissal of her family values toward her own wayward daughter and special needs son, it appears that all she has to do is keep winking at everyone and flashing those bright teeth (and a little leg) and she'll harvest every GOP vote from here to Alaska.
But will it be enough to save John McCain? He fallen way behind ... and I don't think he can get up.
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