That should be McCain's new campaign motto after today. And if the MSM just plays the latest McCain 'hail Mary' straight, then this should about wrap it up.
Notice what Obama did and what he didn't do today. He made a behind the scenes offer to McCain to try and formulate a non-partisan agreement over the bail-out. He could have publicized this -- he could have announced "I have just done this great and magnanimous thing and placed the good of the country above my self-interest, and I challenge Senator McCain to do the same." But he didn't. What he did was private and unpublicized, in an obvious effort to act the part of a statesman rather than a mere office-seeker. Not the case with St. John.
What McCain did do is what he has been doing for 30 years -- and is the real source of his own party's amibivalence towards him. He stabbed Obama in the back. Within minutes of his belated acceptance of Obama's offer this afternoon he makes his very public announcement that he is once again placing the good of his country above his political ambitions. Oh, and by the way, he'd like an extension on that foreign policy term paper due this friday.
If anyone out there didn't already know it, this is a perfect example of why the repos have hated McCain for so long: his self-righteous posturing at the expense of others for his own purely personal political gain. He has made a career out of going along until he could spot a way to make points at someone else's expense. This is why the repo's hate him, for example, for his so-called campaign reform work. And this is also one of the real lessons of McCain's history with the Keating 5. It is pretty well documented that he threw some of his colleagues to the wolves in order to get off so light.
Let's hope that George Will really meant what he said about McCain's temperament and suitability for office. Folks like Will and David Brooks should be all over McCain for this transparent attempt to paper over his tanking poll numbers and his Alaskan albatross. To paraphrase Will, one of our presidential candidates obviously knows how to be a statesman, and it isn't John McCain. And the great Wall Street Bail-Out just became the John McCain Bail-Out.