McCain-Palin Maybe Not Suited for the White House... Says the Media?

Have you felt a strange feeling recently? A good feeling, like an angel is getting his wings? Or, more accurately, like the so-called "liberal" media is getting their brains (or at the very least, some eyes and ears)? It's starting to appear that the media is starting to notice that something isn't quite right about the candidacy of John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Flip onto This Week with George Stephanopoulos (and I thought our governor's last time was hard to spell) on ABC on a Sunday morning, and probably the most neoconservative guy you'll see in there will be one George F. Will. So imagine my surprise today to see George Will claim that McCain is losing his head:

Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama.

Conservatives who insist that electing McCain is crucial usually start, and increasingly end, by saying he would make excellent judicial selections. But the more one sees of his impulsive, intensely personal reactions to people and events, the less confidence one has that he would select judges by calm reflection and clear principles, having neither patience nor aptitude for either.

It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed?

George Will's article came to this conclusion after pointing out McCain's remark that he would fire the head of the Securities Exchange Commission, and goes to show that when it comes to the economy, McCain really doesn't know any more about the economy than Obama knows, if even that much. At least Obama is willing to say that he won't comment until he's had time to study the issues, unlike John "the fundamentals of our economy are strong" McCain.

Meanwhile, Sarah Palin is in New York meeting with world leaders for her first time. And how fitting, since she has all of that "executive experience" that the Republicans said (back in St. Paul) that Senators Obama and Biden had none of. (Incidentally, neither does John McCain, but forgive me for using your own argument against you.) But for all of that executive experience, the GOP campaign sure doesn't seem to want the media to see her in action, as they banned reporters from the start of the meeting so that they wouldn't have chance to ask Palin a single question. Amazingly enough, CNN completely pulled its camera crew from the meeting in response. If she is as qualified to be viee president as the Republicans keep saying she is, why is it that they have been hiding her from the media this way?

At the rate this is going, I'd say that the GOP campaign is going to keep rolling downhill unless they've got one heck of an October Surprise planned...