Please vote for the McChaos-Failin' ticket

 

What's wrong with McCain? He tries to create chaos every time his poll numbers dip.
  
First, he picked Ms. Palin, the most stupid way to create a stir. It was the day after Obama's mega-speech and he wanted to drown out any sensation it may cause. This is really an affront to women; there are much more qualified Republican women candidates who could have been chosen. But he wanted a chaos.
  
Then, as if Ms. Palin had not caused enough of a distraction to help his campaign, he proposed to delay the GOP convention as hurricane Ike was hammering the Gulf coast. Cooler heads prevailed, and only some activities were curtailed. But the Senator would have preferred to create a chaos.
  
Finally, when he saw Obama had surged ahead by 9% points in the Washington Post/ABC News poll and a host of new polls from Fox News, Marist and CNN/Time, each with numbers closer to Post/ABC than not, he declared that he is suspending his campaign and asked Obama to do the same. He also asked that the debates be postponed in wake of this financial crisis this country is facing.

The same day he called Dave Letterman at 3:00 pm to say that he cannot appear on his showthat day as he is suspending his campaign and heading to Washington to ensure the solution to the financial crisis has been reached. Instead, he went to give an interview to Katie Couric, also of CBS. He departed to Washington not until next day, and only after addressing the Clinton Global Initiative.


Four things become clear from his recent actions.

For one, he wants to create chaos and then ride into town like a White Knight and take credit for rescuing the country from a catastrophe. He has taken this page from Bush's play book; and the Iraq war is a good example. 

At first, he acted like an arsonist by fully supporting the president to attack Iraq, and agreeing with Rumsfeld and other neo-cons that this war will be short, that we will be greeted as liberators, that there is no Shia-Sunni animus and that we will be departing the country in short order after leaving behind a model democracy in the Middle-East region.

When that didn't happen, he put on his maverick armor, and rode on the high horse of surge as if try to extinguish the fire he had helped start. It is a no-brainer that violence will go down whenever you put more troops on the ground; the test is if this tactic would usher in a the larger strategic goal, which in this case was political reconciliation. The surge was successful only because this tactic had other symbiotic forces at work as well, like the Anbar Awakening and the standing down of the Mukhtadar Army, but even then the full goals have not been met.

Another example is when he parachuted into Washington to make sure the bail-out plan works. This was receiving a bipartisan support in Congress, and that of the President. It was going smoothly this the Senator decided to become a part of it, when it quickly unraveled. He only succeeded in creating further chaos.

  
Then, there is his tendency focus at one thing at a time. Why couldn't the campaign go on while he visited D.C.? Why did the convention and/or the debates have to be postponed? Can't he deal with two or more crises at the same time?


In addition, he made all these decisions, in addition to countless others throughout the years, rather hastily and rashly. It doesn't seem that he put much thought in any of these, as is becoming evident of his vetting of Ms. Palin. As she goes around and talks to the nation via the press, a picture is emerging that she is most unqualified person that could have been picked.
  
And lastly, his cancellation of his appearance on The David Letterman Show was very telling of his character.

Why did he lie to Dave? Probably because the Palin interview with Couric had been a disaster, and he wanted his interview to share space with that of his VP pick on the evening news. But why couldn't he have been candid with Letterman? I'm sure Dave would have understood.

  
  
In none of these actions did the Senator seems to put "Country First", as he'd like us to believe. They were all driven by personal ambition to be the President, even if the country suffers from the actions he has to take to win.



So, please vote for McCain if you'd like a person who will have his hand on the nuclear button if you don't mind that he makes rash decisions, embellishes in creating chaos, cannot multi-task and is prone to mislead you if things get hot and uncomfortable. By voting for him you'd also put in office someone to be a heart-beat away from an aged person with recurrent cancer, and I'd assume that you are comfortable with her in that position. 

And afer you do, say a little prayer for our country. Gov Palin is a strong believer that prayers work, and Sen McCain is also a recent convert.