McCain's latest move; brilliant or insane?

[Politico]

Brilliant.  It's his version of "I shall go to Korea."  He gets to look like a he's doing something.

If the bailout is adopted, McCain is the economic hero and a bipartisan.  If it fails, it's because Obama was too interested in his own ambitions to do the job to which he has been elected.

You seem to be under this bizarre impression that the bailout is popular.

No, but leadership and bipartisanship are.  This isn't about the economy.  McCain just transformed the issue.

McCain just transformed the issue? You're trolling on this, right? There is no way to transform this issue into something positive for Republicans.

[Politico]

Now, if McCain had picked Mitt, he'd be on every news network right now pretending to be a savvy businessman, and the media would be eating it up.

Which might have gotten us to within five points of Obama. Romney would have been a big negative from the beginning.

I disagree. If McCain is forced to drop Palin, his only hope is Romney. It's pretty much over if he has to drop Palin for some reason, but there would at least be a glimmer of hope for Republicans with Romney coming in to try and muster victory. It would at least allow Romney to run again in 2012...

[Politico]

Just play an ad of McCain saying the economy is fundamentally strong one week, and then show an ad of him the next week saying he needs to suspend his campaign to save the economy. Such an ad, on top of a face-to-face debate with the charismatic candidate of change, will make people realize that McCain is really just a tired, confused old man who does and says what his "people" tell him to do and say.