When I was a kid, a lot of the movies were about kids "putting on a show" as an answer to their problems. Seems like the McCain campaign thinks along the same lines.
When the Dems had a successful and uplifting convention, he pulled Sara Palin out of a hat -TA DA! He she got lots of attention which began to lag as the economy took center stage.
Let's put on a show! I'm going to run back to Washington and save the day - forget that pesky debate. And even better - I'll pretend that this effort to work out a new economic plan was MY idea, when, in fact, Obama called me first." (Twisting his handlebar mustache and chuckling.) McCain turned up a couple of days later and the negotiations immediately fell apart. Bravo!
Then he added to the suspense of the third act by pretending he may not go to the debate - oooh. What will happen next? It appears he went in for some off-off-Broadway interpretation of a debate. His acting method was to pretend he was ALONE on the stage.
Now, like an frustrated, aging Margo Channing - his campaign has admitted that they can't win on the issues, so they will attack his younger rival's character. We need to fasten our seat belts, we're in for a bumpy 29 days.
I admit, I am not the only person to see the melodrama here, conservative columnist George F. Will wrote:
McCain's approach to politics is "always operatic, pitting people who agree with him against those who are 'corrupt' or 'betray the public trust,' two categories that seem to be exhaustive -- there are no other people."
Operatic!! Wow, the next debate should be a really, really big show.
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