That's certainly debatable. McCain is doing the right thing on this. What the voters perceive is TBD. We (the people in this thread and on FR) tend to have a broader view of the world than many Americans. There are many voters who think everything is just fine as long as they got a Big Mac and a Coke sitting on the table, and American Idol on the TV. As far as those people are concerned, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are the nice couple that lives down the street.
I know all that and it doesn't detract from what I said.
Senator McCain going to Washington on this is a good thing. When a politician does the correct thing, that politician has a better chance of having a political success.
With this media being the most vicious it has ever been and Obama who would sell his soul to win this election.... I dont like this move McCain made. This election may be over.
Obama is going to continue to campaign while McCain is screwing around with this Senate gains over this bailout.
Senator McCain going to Washington on this is a good thing.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions but the undecideds don't care about intentions. They care about what they see.
They see this last minute suspension of his campaign and debate.
They see his campaign backpedaling and
telling ABC tonight that they want to move the first Presidental debate back to the date of the VP debate and then push the VP debate back.
Then they see him calling up David Letterman to cancel being on Letterman's show tonight because he said he had to fly back to Washington, and Letterman's people catching McCain
going on CBS News to talk to Couric instead of being on Letterman's show.
Like I said - step back and don't look at it as a Republican or Conservative would - look at it as Karl Rove successfully did through two elections - how is this being viewed by the indepenedents, moderates, and undecideds. Rove knew something that McCain's campaign has forgotten - the base will eventually come around. You have to pay attention to the swing voters and the undecideds and the independents. You me, the others in this thread, we'll vote for McCain short of a huge scandal. It's the swing voters that matter, and that's why McCain's camp pursued Hillary's supporters, the Hispanics, etc.
It's a shame that Rove isn't running McCain's campaign, but McCain is lucky in one aspect - he's facing Obama and not Bill and Hillary.