McCain's Bad Week: Sloppy Incompetence or Refreshing Lack of Overscripting?

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<p>There was a flurry of stories about this – i.e. about the fact that McCain campaign made a lot of mistakes the first week it reorganized the campaign to avoid such mistakes.</p>

<p>Here is the most glaring example:</p>

<p>[YouTube</a> - McCain Get’s Awkward About the Viagra Issue](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkQDbfF4RqA]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkQDbfF4RqA)</p>

<p>I actually find McCain’s freewheeling approach to speeches and appearances oddly refreshing – maybe just because the impression that it gives is so comically unscripted in a tightly scripted world – though I can’t say it necessarily gives me confidence or would sway me to vote for him. </p>

<p>This article says his personality may be the trouble, that he’d never really work well with be “straitjacketed” into a machine-like repetition of a focused message.</p>

<p>[McCain</a> hoped for a better week - Los Angeles Times](<a href=“A week McCain may wish to forget”>A week McCain may wish to forget)</p>

<p>Will this hurt him in November – or help him? Does it make him look approachable – or batty and kind of flaky?</p>

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<p>an awkward answer to an awkward question</p>

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<p>Hurt him. The big against him is age, and you don’t want people to think he ain’t sharp. It’s such a conundrum! </p>

<p>McCain is a dream candidate, a real fiscal conservative, yet he’s just too old. My hope is that if he is elected he has a strong vice president (like Bobby Jindal! or Newt Gingrich) who can at the very least help him focus, if not be there in case of forbid… his death.</p>

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<p>“Refreshing lack of overscripting”? Haha, what a monumental spin.</p>

<p>McCain’s just dumb as a rock. He’s outraged that the workers of today finance the retirement of the workers of yesterday? Maybe he should travel back in time and join forces with J.P. Morgan in his attempt to oust FDR and institute a fascist dictatorship in America.</p>