McCain Returns To His Natural Habitat, For A Couple Hours

He doesn't deserve to return to NH.

McCain made his choice: personal ambition over his country. It's obvious the man doesn't care if he wins he will precide over a bitterly divided country due to his nasty attacks on Dems.

Calling Dems Marxist, communisits and socialists is not the way to start a new day of bipartisanship.

Jed Lewison swats drudge fixednoise and McCain all at once.
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http://www.jedreport.com/2008/11/ohios-gop-senator-mccain-will.html

Ah yes, McCain returns to New Hampshire, which has given him so much politically and waxes on about how wonderful the state is. But then he will just pop up somewhere else, probably Florida, cursing the East coast and the north eastern U.S. in general (which presumably includes New Hampshire) as not being the "real" America.
Memo to camp McCain: all of America is the REAL America. Even the parts that disagree with you or don't vote for you.

"To witness the real McCain ..."

Which one?

He can return to NH all he wants as long as he knows he doesn't get to rewind the campaign and forget how low he was willing to go to satisfy his naked ambition. I know the media's apologist rhetoric has already begun with applauding McCain's decision not to go racial -- as if code doesn't count.

Obama is up by 7 in New Hamphsire, according to Rasmussen, and the lead goes up from there.
So tell McCain to just go nuts in that there town hall.

Michael,
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Why is McCain still drawing small crowds if the race is so close?
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TAMPA, Florida (CNN) – Barack Obama may lead John McCain by just 2 points in the latest CNN Florida poll of polls, but the enthusiasm gap appears a bit wider.
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John McCain's first rally of the day, in Tampa outside Raymond James Stadium, only drew about 1,100 people. Local reporters noting that at almost the same spot just before the 2004 election, President Bush drew about 15,000 people. Two weeks ago, Obama drew an estimated 8,000.
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Republican Gov. Crist, who had previously agreed to do interviews with CNN and various local affiliates, bolted right after the rally with no explanation.
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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/03/mccain-draws-small-florida-crowd-on-race%e2%80%99s-final-day/

Michael,
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McCain drew a crowd of 1,100 today in Tampa and Crist bolted on the after rally interviews? What's going on?
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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/03/mccain-draws-small-florida-crowd-on-race%e2%80%99s-final-day/

CNN and Huffington Post are reporting McCain drew 1,100 in Tampa this morning. Would post a link, but I when I do post disappears.

This is the political equivalent of calling your old girlfriend and hanging up. New Hampshire is seeing other people, Senator.

Imagine my surprise!
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Micheal Scherer calmly informs us that the real McCain is the bipartisan straight-shooter we always knew and that the OTHER McCain is a contrivance forced on him by his campaign.
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I'm absolutely stunned.
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I couldn't have in a million years imagined Micheal writing a story like that.

Hey, Michael – 
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How about some real reporting, like on McCain's Big Lie on coal? Last chance to Do the Right Thing

What happens with the media love for McCain post-election? Will they finally confront that the iconoclastic Maverick they loved had devolved into a cranky, self-deluding boor who was willing to say anything in the hope of getting elected. And when those statements were shown to be lies and innuendo, continued to say them over and over again.

Or is it back to fond memories barbecue and laughter on the tire swing?

Will they finally confront [..] Or is it back to fond memories.

Didn't you read the article? It's all fond memories all the time. The 2008 campaign was all just a bad dream.....

Oh, sure, Paul, Michael's heart is true. That's a given. But overall, will the myth of McCain the Bold wither away now that more and more media folk who maybe just 'liked' McCain got a peak behind the mask?

LOL, Pourmecoffee. Ah, leave him be, we're moving into the nostalgia period -- to be expected. But while this McCain may well be "the McCain" that the real McCain wants to be or wants to believe he is or wants us to believe he is -- it's not the REAL McCain. If this were the real McCain, he would not have run this campaign. Q.E.D.

Michael this is way past denialhood and hovering over delusionalville. "John McCain is still a lousy faker" How do you know that McCain is faking his way through his campaign? Produce the videotape that definitively proves that McCain did not willingly, with malice and forethought, enter into his Faustian bargain. Give me a break!
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You ask me to believe that he is a great leader who would always put America first...

1-Cynically chose Palin (risking the country) to keep his base.
2-Said he wanted to run a issue campaign -- oops focused solely on personal destruction (with the same people that did him in in 2000).
3- Wouldn't use Wright -- Hm oh that's right he is head of the GOP but has no sway with the RNC running despicable ads featuring Wright in PA and VA.
4-Obama wants to bankrupt the coal idustry-- a story that is stunning in its crapulocity.

Didn't New Hampshire kind of fall off the map, literally, for McCain? Is there anything he has ever said that even New Hampshire conservatives really care about? They have their generators, snowplows, tourists, and very few "city folk". They only want to be left alone and I don't think they see Obama making cramping their New Hampshire style Priority One in the first 100 Days... or even 1000 after that.

Is this another one of those town halls where only supporters are allowed to attend?
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The only real John McCain is the one who hears nothing but praise at his awesomeness.

I live in Peterborough and swung by the McCain Town Hall. A couple of things. Large predominance of out of state folks in attendance for the McCain side. And the Obama crowd was almost as large outside.

This is a pretty standard curtain-closer article that, in my estimation, lacks the depth and nuance to make it stand out or even generate much more than a blip amid all the political content out there.

It would have been interesting to probe or reflect on whether McCain regrets the vast gap he has created between the McCain who stomped there in 1999 and the one who was just there. Unfortunately, Michael leaves so much unsaid in this article that, well, way too much is unsaid.

I can't believe you are still pimping the story that McCain 2008 is not the "real" McCain.
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I thought theirs was the party of personal responsibility. Poor mishandled McCain. How much he must have wanted to run a decent, substantive campaign. If only his advisors had let him. Cry me a river.

"The Borgen Project has some good info on the cost of addressing global poverty.
$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
$540 billion: Annual U.S. Defense Budget."

I don't know, Michael. Seems to me that McCain is perfectly comfortable faking, if that's what he's doing. He's never been the man you want him to be. Winning matters most to him, and the ironical thing is-- it's exactly that attitude that led him to run a stupid, disorganized, and venal -- and losing campaign.

But you go head, sweetie. You go head and believe that you got him back. "We'll always have Town Hall," you can murmur to him now.

Wow, what a dishonest piece of fluff. Didn't you feel like you had to take a shower after writing that? I would have.