McCain to be invisible soon…again

Prediction: The economic crisis will overshadow the McCain campaign.

John just cannot get a break. First, Hillary and Obama struggled for supremacy for months and that struggle kept McCain off the pages. McCain’s trip to the Mideast, the Vatican, and to the UK went unnoticed. Then Obama’s trip to the same places was covered by all the major networks. Then the  Democrat Convention kept McCain off the air and off the front pages again.

McCain strikes publicity gold with his selection of Sarah Palin and gets two weeks of attention. Then the media plays Where’s Waldo? with Sarah and her inaccessibility to interviews. Not forthcoming, Sarah’s comet begins to sputter and go dark. Then the VEEP debate takes place and Sarah and John receive about four days of attention during the beginning of the financial crisis. As the comet fades again, McCain’s campaign gets all bold and he vaults over to Washington to block the House bill. He gets a lot of press for this but his struggle to assume leadership of the Republican Party fails when he chooses the wrong crisis to leverage Bush out of Republican authority. The crisis cannot wait for McCain’s lobbying of his solution to Congress so President Bush steps in and maneuvers the Senate Republicans into approving some special earmarks to get the Senate bill passed. McCain leaves defeated but this is overlooked by the media as Palin debates Biden. The attention to the McCain-Palin campaign survived two days after the Bailout Bill was passed and will now fall flat.

Oh, I guess Palin could do something outrageous like accuse Obama of being friends with a terrorist (*cough*) but then everyone knows this is a lie and they will defend Obama. So her sparkle fades once again.

This week, if President Bush does not attack Iran, McCain’s campaign will go dark once more as the press focuses on whether the Bail Out Bill will fix the economy ( it won’t) and the press will focus on the upcoming banking hearings in the House on how the credit debacle was created.

John just cannot get a break to get his campaign moving. But he has a debate scheduled this week with Obama, so some attention may shift towards him but it will likely be short-lived ( unless he can think of something to bring attention to himself). Someone should make up words to the song ‘Unforgettable’ but call it ‘Undetectable’ and spoof the McCain campaign. 

I am feeling sorry for John McCain. Like I once felt bad for Dukakis.