Posted by Jed Lewison on Mon Sep 22, 2008 at 2:52 AM Pacific

This Is Going To Require Some Explaining

Alright, I admit -- I'm totally confused. (Must be talking about McCain.)

  • On Sunday, Ben Smith reports: "John McCain will distance himself from Hank Paulson's bailout plan" on Monday.
  • On Saturday, Jonathan Martin reports: McCain "isn't yet offering his support to the administration's expensive plan to buy up the bad debt that threatens to choke credit markets."
  • But in a 60 Minutes interview taped on Thursday, McCain seemed to endorse the bailout plan, which was pitched to Congress on Thursday and announced to the public on Friday. Update: According to AP, McCain did in fact endorse the bailout.

In other news, the top of the GOP ticket (that'd be Sarah Palin) continues to upstage John McCain, this time drawing a crowd of 60,000 in The Villages, Florida. I travel to that part of Florida each year to visit my grandpa and step-grandma, and I may never look at the area the same way again.

Update (3:31AM): I am officially an idiot. Palin did not draw 60K. Maybe 25K is more like it. And as noted in the commonets, Palin went to one of the easiest places in Florida for a Republican to generate a crowd. Obama meanwhile went into GOP country in Florida and still drew over 20K.

This Is Going To Require Some Explaining

Alright, I admit -- I'm totally confused. (Must be talking about McCain.)

  • On Sunday, Ben Smith reports: "John McCain will distance himself from Hank Paulson's bailout plan" on Monday.
  • On Saturday, Jonathan Martin reports: McCain "isn't yet offering his support to the administration's expensive plan to buy up the bad debt that threatens to choke credit markets."
  • But in a 60 Minutes interview taped on Thursday, McCain seemed to endorse the bailout plan, which was pitched to Congress on Thursday and announced to the public on Friday. Update: According to AP, McCain did in fact endorse the bailout.

In other news, the top of the GOP ticket (that'd be Sarah Palin) continues to upstage John McCain, this time drawing a crowd of 60,000 in The Villages, Florida. I travel to that part of Florida each year to visit my grandpa and step-grandma, and I may never look at the area the same way again.

Update (3:31AM): I am officially an idiot. Palin did not draw 60K. Maybe 25K is more like it. And as noted in the commonets, Palin went to one of the easiest places in Florida for a Republican to generate a crowd. Obama meanwhile went into GOP country in Florida and still drew over 20K.

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