Has a bailout agreement been “locked down”?

September 26th, 2008 at 12:46pm Pat Cunningham

 

A spokesman for John McCain said yesterday that the Republican nominee would continue the suspension of  his campaign and would shun tonight’s scheduled presidential debate unless there was a “locked-down agreement” in Washington to deal with the financial crisis.

Well, at this writing, no such solid agreement has been announced. But the suspension of McCain’s campaign has been dropped, and the senator has agreed to participate in the debate.

So much for McCain’s vaunted “straight talk” and the characterization of this campaign stunt as an example of putting “country first.”

There’s more on the matter HERE, including the observation by former McCain adviser Craig Shirley that McCain’s campaign “is governed by tactics and not ideology.”

“In the end,” added Shirley, “he blinked and Obama did not. The ’steady hand in a storm’ argument looks now to more favor Obama, not McCain.”

UPDATE: WaPo pundit SAYS McCain’s stunt “did not pan out as he had hoped.”

Yeah,  just the like the choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate.

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