Who needs surrogates and a press operation when you’ve got the other candidate doing their work for them?
(CNN) — John McCain predicted Sunday he would beat Barack Obama at the final presidential debate this week.
“After I whip his you-know-what in this debate, we’re going to be going out 24/7,” the Republican nominee told volunteers at his campaign headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, sparking laughter and applause from the group. McCain immediately added: “I want to emphasize again, I respect Senator Obama. We will conduct a respectful race, and we will make sure that everybody else does, too.”
McCain has effectively raised the bar for himself for the last debate. The pressure was already on him to begin with after losing the first two debates. Now, anything less than a thorough drubbing will be painted as a failure. How much do you want to bet we’ll be hearing “John McCain failed to whip Senator Obama’s you-know-what in the debate,” ad nauseam from Obama’s surrogates in the spin room after the debate? If you make a drinking game out of every time that phrase is quoted by Democratic operatives between now and Wednesday night, you won’t have much of a liver or kidneys left by Thursday morning.
Icepicks and Nukes 