I love McCain for his antics. There’s never a dull moment in the campaign because of McCain (or his campaign strategists – whatever).
McCain has given us wonderful moments to cherish: not remembering how many houses he owns and defining “rich” as someone who earns more than $5 million a year.
The Sarah Palin move was brilliant. Here’s proof: she had 10 times as many searches and news volume as Biden. If this was high school, Biden would be called Boring Biden.
Another politically smart move was to complain about CEO compensation in the context of the Wall St bailout. There is something surreal about a Republican complaining about CEO compensation (and about a Republican administration bailing companies out left, right and center). But it was populist – and good political strategy.
And today McCain said he’d like to suspend campaigning, cancel the first presidential debate and go to Washington to build consensus on the bailout package. This is the second time that McCain has suspended the campaign. It supposedly makes him look like some action-taking, decisive, consensus-building, powerful person.
Update on 9/29: Chadwick Matlin calls McCain a brilliant game theorist for this move.
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