After watching John McCain try to calm down his crowds yesterday, I ended up having some reservations. I’m not saying McCain isn’t serious about what he is saying, but I am now wondering if he is in control of his campaign. His campaign aides were out just a couple hours before supporting the violent calls from McCain/Palin crowds and Palin herself continued the attacks yesterday. The top of the ticket is in charge of the campaign, which is John McCain. So is he saying he doesn’t have control of his campaign? If so that sounds an awful lot like Bush and his administration.
There is a chance though that McCain was just trying to save face yesterday and has no intention of calming the fires. Perhaps McCain did this because he is so much like George Bush now in the sense that Republican incumbents up for re-election are refusing to be seen on the trail with him now.
The next few days should be interesting to watch and see how all this takes hold. I’m sure a lot of hard core Republicans are pissed with McCain, so he will have to stop that bleeding. I also don’t see what McCain did helping him with Independents, so the polls could quickly open up more in Obama’s favor, in which case we would probably see McCain trying to reignite the fires.