It just keeps getting better and better, II

Ex-adviser of McCraven campaign can't imagine a bigger tool right now than his former boss. Unless its his former boss's VP pick.

After days of saying that [Nutso McDramaQueen] would not attend Friday's presidential debate unless an agreement on a bailout package for the markets was "locked-down," the McCain campaign has gone back on its word.

On Friday, it announced that the Senator would head down to Mississippi even though, as they readily admit, much work remained needed on the bailout agreement.

The whole episode left even conservatives admitting that the McCain campaign looked erratic and a bit foolish with no apparent direction or guiding principle.

"It just proves his campaign is governed by tactics and not ideology," said Republican consultant Craig Shirley, who advised McCain earlier in this cycle. "In the end, he blinked and Obama did not. The 'steady hand in a storm' argument looks now to more favor Obama, not McCain."

Shirley added, "My guess is that plasma units are rushing to the McCain campaign as we speak to replace the blood flowing there from the fights among the staff."

Surely he can't be serious!

Sorry. This is hysterical What bold leadership! What bold mavericknitude! What a querulous, confused old coot! McSenile's left eye isn't the only part of him that blinked today.

Update: the WaComPo says "McCain blinked." Though -- spoiler alert! -- it seems he DID win tonight's debate. Change we can believe in.