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There you have it. Proof positive. I've been opining for several months that the McCain campaign is entirely fixated on itself and that, when it goes on the attack, it's actually trying to cover up a deficit it recognizes in its own candidate.
For example, when the issue du jour was "executive experience" and the supposed lack thereof on the part of a candidate who'd organized more than two million voter/donors on the ground, that was clearly an effort to distract us from the fact that John McCain can't even keep track of how many houses he has--because he never pays the bills!
The same pattern held true of the "commander-in-chief" story line. The public and the press had to be distracted from the fact that John McCain's command experience in the Navy was limited to a two year stint directing a squadron (24 planes) in north Florida, after which the Navy sent him to lobby in Washington. That he pushed through a project the Pentagon didn't want (they weren't called earmarks back then) is telling, but clearly not to be talked about, either.
So many things to hide! Makes me think of the Killdeer--a bird that's well known for making a lot of noise and pretending to have a broken wing whenever a potential predator comes near its nest.
How does the announcement that the vice presidential pick is not going to speak to the press fit in to this pattern, you might ask. Well, it's not just because John McCain wants all the attention to be focused on him. More likely it's because he's deathly afraid that, as he claims about his Palin choice, "nobody cares."
And that's a fact. It's been the bane of John McCain's existence that nobody has cared enough to call him on his irresponsible behaviors--not when he was in the Naval Academy; not when he caroused with the "Bad Boys" during his early Florida days; not when he crashed four planes and watched one go up in flames; not when the Vietnamese whose country he'd been bombing fished him out of a pond; not when he cheated on his first wife and abandoned her sons; not when he suckered four Democrats into backing the Keating enterprise; not when he deep-sixed the Indian Nation scam investigation by putting tons of documentation under seal; not when he lied about the competition in the presidential race. Nobody cared enough to expose him and call a halt. How sad is that?
So now, after a week of press and blogger attention to Sarah Palin's obvious deficits (surely not as severe as McCain's own) John McCain has had enough. He proclaims that the VP candidate should be returned to the stealth position she briefly enjoyed, because nobody really cares what her positions and qualifications are. Besides, if the Palin Person doesn't speak, surely the country will care about him. Right?
Don't be surprised if the Palin presence in the McCain campaign is about as prominent as George W. Bush's. It's all about the One John this time, don't you know?
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