This is exciting! John McCain is set to name his choice for vice president, or so it is rumored. It had been suggested that he would hold off on this Big Announcement until after Obama had made his pick, but, well, according to the unreliable asshole who is passing along this gossip:
Sources close to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign are suggesting he will reveal the name of his vice presidential selection this week while Sen. Barack Obama is getting the headlines on his foreign trip.
Sure. Of course Obama is not merely "getting the headlines" -- if the Iraqis want a withdrawal, and that's the popular sentiment in America also, which it is, then the only rationale for McCain's entire campaign is gone, stupid as it always was, and he's fucked. So what the hell else is he going to do?
If he does announce his VP pick in the next week or so, or before Obama, it's a sign that he knows just how fucked he is. It'll grab headlines and maybe twits like Mark Halperin will be moved to declare McCain the Winner of the Week or some such horseshit.
Nevertheless, in the long run, it remains the case that the pool in which McCain is fishing for his sidekick contains the sort of water you'd find in the Gowanus Canal, and that none of the lifeforms he is likely to extricate from this goop is likely to sufficiently un-fuck him to the extent that "winning" a news cycle in July -- or whenever -- will do him much good in November.
My bet is Obama wins by 4-6, and the media line is that he barely squeaked out a victory. Also, by next summer the Sunday gasbags will be solemnly discussing the early warning signs of how our first black president is doomed to impeachment and how very sad that is for us as a nation.
UPDATE. K-Lo confirms the stupid, because that's her job as well as her hobby.
The Veep-Now Speculation [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
It would be the final media turn-off to McCain if he rained on the week of Obama.
Right, because the media doesn't love them some McCain and wouldn't go all gushy over a transparent mediaphiliac stunt.
Greater Wingnuttia desperately needs the doxology of Liberal Media Bias because without it they would be forced to contemplate the dark backward and abysm of how much they suck.
