The Hypocrisy Express

There he goes again!

McCain accused Obama of being 'opportunistic' because he talked about the problems on Wall Street. But it's all right for McCain to talk about those problems?

And yesterday on Morning Joe, when he didn't like being asked questions he took a swipe at Mika Brezinzki, calling her an Obama supporter; yet when she pointed out that her brother works for the McCain campaign, he called it "A cheap shot".

The McCain campaign had been quick to say Obama should be tarred because of comments made by acquaintance William Ayers, but when Palin in her acceptance speech quotes an avowed racist and anti-semite Westbrook Pegler(who wrote, among other things, it is "clearly the bounden duty of all intelligent Americans to proclaim and practice bigotry", and said about Robert Kenedy when he was running for President, that he(pegler) hoped "some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies." - no one should hold his views against Palin? I guess she hasn't read the person she quoted? Didn't bother to look him up?

And let's not talk about the way he blames Obama for the sleazy McCain adds - If he met me in town hall meetings I wouldn't run ads full of lies and distortions. Puhleeze. That's like a rapist saying, if she hadn't been a woman I wouldn't have raped her, so my behavior is her fault.

McCain has to be worried about the way some conservative columnists have dismissed Palin. Dave Brooks wrote that she "has not been engaged in national issues, does not have a repertoire of historic patterns and, like President Bush, she seems to compensate for her lack of experience with brashness and excessive decisiveness."

Roos Douthat said, "she seemed about an inch deep on every issue outside her comfort zone...there's no way to look at her performance as anything save supporting evidence for the non-hysterical critique of her candidacy - that it's just too much, too soon"

Richard Cohen had this to say about McCain, "His opportunistic and irresponsible choice of Sarah Palin as his political heir -- the person in whose hands he would leave the country -- is a form of personal treason, a betrayal of all he once stood for. Palin, no matter what her other attributes, is shockingly unprepared to become president. McCain knows that. He means to win, which is all right; he means to win at all costs, which is not."

Then supporter Carly Fiorina said Palin didn't have the ability to run a large company(a remark she later attempted to mend by including all the candidates in that category).

These critiques are coming from the right. Even Rush Limbaugh was exasperated at the way Palin failed to properly handle the Wall Street meltdown.

The Palin phenomena has run its course. I don't see her gaining any more popularity than she has now, and with all the scandals associated with her there's a good chance her popularity could come crashing down.

That means McCain will have to come out from behind her skirt and stand on his own. The old McCain might have been up to it. The new McCain is doomed.