Combine his apparent inability to lead with the weird as hell interview of McCain & Palin by Curic last night where McCain blamed journalists asking legitimate questions for Palin’s (who believes humans and dinos lived at the same time — what would happen to science ed if she became prez?) gaffes and you have to wonder why anyone would vote for him. And then there’s the issues of his health no one seems to want to talk about.

With bailout, McCain reaches dead end

Republican John McCain has maneuvered himself into a political dead end and has five weeks to find his way out.

Last Wednesday, McCain suspended his presidential campaign to insert himself into a $700 billion effort to rescue America’s crumbling financial structure. In so doing, he tied himself far more tightly to the bill than did his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama.

Then, as the bailout plan appeared ready for passage Monday in the House, McCain bragged that he was an action-oriented Teddy Roosevelt Republican who did not sit on the sidelines at a moment of crisis.

The implication: that he played a critical role in building bipartisan support for the unprecedented bailout.
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Within hours, however, the measure died in the House mainly at the hands of McCain’s own Republicans.

Initially, McCain went silent, choosing instead to send his chief economic adviser out with a statement that blamed Obama, claiming that the first-term Illinois senator had put his political ambitions ahead of the good of the country.

“This bill failed because Barack Obama and the Democrats put politics ahead of country,” McCain senior policy adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin said.
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All in all, McCain might have been better served by staying out of the mess and above the fray.

If the congressional impasse leads to a credit crisis, “it’s not going to be good for McCain,” veteran Republican consultant John Feehery said.

So rather than man up and take blame for not following through with his promise to deliver, McCain blames Obama?