It looks like John McCain is moving to the third level of desperation in his efforts to pull ahead of Barack Obama in the presidential election.
Of course, McCain's first level of desperation was launching the race-baiting "Celeb" ad back in July. Was that just two months ago? How time flies.
Unfortunately for McCain, attack ads don't have that long of a shelf life and the "Celeb" ad was pretty much forgotten during a strong Democratic convention. In response, McCain moved to the next level and nominated the unprepared Sarah Palin for vice-president. There was a certain cynical beauty to the Palin nomination as McCain came to a final decision that he realy didn't care whether his VP candidate was qualified at about the same time he was making "Country First" his big campaign theme.
Maybe patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels.
But the Palin magic only lasted a couple of weeks and now Obama's stretching out to 7 and 8 point leads in the daily tracking polls. As a result, there's some indication that McCain's going to make the second presidential debate into National "William Ayres Day" in honor of the former Weatherman who Obama sort of knows from some education projects in Chicago.
That's Desperation Level No. 3.
But there's still more than four weeks to go and McCain hasn't come close to reaching the outer edge of his desperate longing to be president.
One sign that McCain has reached the final level of desperation when he does something really off the wall. And there's lots of examples of off the wall. Right-wing conspirarcy theorists were convinced that Bill Clinton was a serial killer. Maybe the McCain campaign will start accusing Obama of being the culprit in unsolved murders around the Chicago areas. There have to be hundreds of unsolved murders since Obama moved to Chicago. Can Obama prove that he wasn't involved in any of them? What about Obama's marital fidelity? Doctored photos of Obama on Muslim prayer rugs?
The field's wide-open for hair-brained accusations and John McCain could prove to be just desperate enough and unprincipled enough to make them.
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But will it work?
Hopefully not. My idea is that McCain's 3rd level accusations will have less of a chance of working if they're seen as part of a process leading to the "final level."
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