You Can't Make It Up

First is a quote from McCain surrogate, Senator Lindsay Graham of South Carolina:

McCain supporter Sen. Lindsey Graham tells CNN the McCain campaign is proposing to the Presidential Debate Commission and the Obama camp that if there's no bailout deal by Friday, the first presidential debate should take the place of the VP debate, currently scheduled for next Thursday, October 2 in St. Louis.

In this scenario, the vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin would be rescheduled for a date yet to be determined, and take place in Oxford, Mississippi, currently slated to be the site of the first presidential faceoff this Friday.

Graham says the McCain camp is well aware of the position of the Obama campaign and the debate commission that the debate should go on as planned — but both he and another senior McCain adviser insist the Republican nominee will not go to the debate Friday if there's no deal on the bailout.

And this one from an unnamed McCain aide quoted on Marc Ambinder's blog:

A senior campaign official says that McCain will NOT debate -- no matter what -- if Congress hasn't reached an agreement on a bailout package.The aide said that Obama's refusal to suspend his campaign will have no bearing on McCain's decision to attend the debate.

The aide did not know whether Gov. Palin would attend Oct. 2's vice presidential debate if Congress, by that point, still hasn't reached a deal.

Sometimes, when I see something so astonishing, so unreal, so outrageous, I just shake my head, and say "you can't make it up." This is one of those times.

The McCain campaign in its infinite stupidity and desperation is now not only trying to weasel out of the first debate just 48 hours beforehand, but now we are beginning to see signals that they will try to nix the veep debate as well.

Trying to move the Friday debate to the same day that the sole veep debate is scheduled for? Why, that must be a huge coincidence! Of course they will just move it to another day! Right.

I guess after seeing the pathetic clips of Sarah Palin getting stumped by Katie Couric of all people, Team McCain is now looking to erase the one vice presidential debate. I guess that was inevitable, and my angst is probably silly.

All of this stuff speaks for itself. Besides, I do not think I can well express myself without resorting to shouting and pulling out my hair here. Instead, let me leave it to Sen. Chuck Hagel, who recently said the following in talking about Palin:

“She doesn’t have any foreign policy credentials ... You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don’t know what you can say. You can’t say anything.”

I think the same can be said about the McCain campaign in its entirety now. There's just nothing left to say.