McCain Invites Danger By Suspending His Campaign

[maddezmom]

McCain Invites Danger By Suspending His Campaign
By Chris Coffey
Republican Consultant


Senator John McCain took a big risk by suspending his campaign this week. It was a bet on a 100 – 1 horse; a gamble with very long odds. These sorts of wagers seldom pay, but when they do, they pay big.

While the McCain campaign is to be saluted for its creative improvisation, this strategy could evolve into some very negative press. The campaign is inviting myriad threats to its brand, any one of which could cost them the election.


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McCain delivered an implicit ultimatum to Obama: suspend your campaign, cancel the debate, and high tail it to D.C. — or tempt the perception of being one who puts politics before country.

Ultimatums are delivered to defenseless foes, not to vital opponents. They are a form of intimidation intended to trigger subservience. That is why McCain now risks looking like a duplicitous bully with little interest in bipartisan cooperation, even though he has spent a lifetime cultivating the opposite image.

Whatever the case, the McCain campaign has put itself in the unique position of being unable to campaign before an election. Suspension means suspension. If one staffer shows up for work, this whole gamble turns into a media stunt.

I hope I am wrong and that this wager pays.

more:http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/09/25/ccoffey_0925/

gotta love when even the Repubs are calling him out on his stunt!!

[quiet.american]

1. As the blogger called it, McCain's gamble *has* turned out to be a media stunt.

Because more than one staffer surely has turned up for work from reports I've read.

[msongs]

2. THERE IS NO SUSPENSION - will OBAMA please call McCain on it in public?? nt

[central scrutinizer]

5. done - see this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7188631

[C_U_L8R]

3. Some risk... it is all a lie

Same old shit we've come to expect from McComatose

[izquierdista]

4. Looking more and more like '64

Arizona senator that people weren't completely sure didn't have a screw or two loose. Ended up winning only Arizona and the Deep South. What goes around comes around; where are those old bumper stickers?

In your guts, you know he's nuts.