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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (432754)11/4/2008 3:05:16 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 1571765
 
"I don't even want to get inside his head on that one."

I can't leave it alone. I have to assume that his advisers aren't complete morons. I don't see how she could seriously have been on any list. But, when you consider that at the time, McCain was sinking fast and the obvious reason was he was so closely tied to unpopular Bush policies. And it was brutally clear that he couldn't change that because his only solid base would leave him. The only thing that Palin could bring to the table was that very same base. Which is what puzzled me at the time. But, it makes sense if he was going to use that to go all mavericky.

However, it looks like he got lulled into complacency when she became a superstar. In addition, resources were devoted to bring her up to speed and McCain was left to hang. So he started to drift instead of revamping his approach.

So he didn't shift when he should have.
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