Last week wasn't John McCain's best week. A market meltdown exposed the shortcomings of McCain's ideology of deregulation and set him back on his heels. With 83 Wall Street lobbyists working on his campaign, McCain not only found himself in the position of being a Washington insider running against the Washington establishment, but as a Wall Street insider running against Wall Street. That didn't work so well. It was a gaffe-filled week for McCain-Palin, with both the candidate and running mate scrambling to find some sort of footing in the new political landscape.In fact, the week was so bad for McCain that conservative columnist George Will took him out to the woodshed on ABC's This Week Sunday, telling the panel that he blew it on the economy.
"I suppose the McCain campaign's hope is that when there's a big crisis, people will go for age and experience," George Will said. "The question is who in this crisis looked more presidential, calm and unflustered. It wasn't John McCain, who, as usual, substituting vehemence for coherence said let's fire somebody and picked one of the most experienced and conservative people in the administration."
On the same show, Sam Donaldson wondered if there wasn't something wrong with McCain's head, asking if McCain wasn't "getting his talking points confused" and saying that "I think the question of McCain’s age is back on the table."...
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