When I saw this bit of news earlier today…
John McCain’s election night watch party might be missing John McCain. Instead of appearing before a throng of supporters at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix on the evening of Nov. 4, the Republican presidential nominee plans to deliver postelection remarks to a small group of reporters and guests on the hotel’s lawn.
Aides said Thursday that the arrangement was due to space limitations and that McCain might drop by the election watch party at some other point.
…I had the same thought that Daily Kos does here: he’s throwing in the towel. Since my vote went to Obama, I can’t say that I’m disappointed…but how must his campaign staffers, who still have twelve days to go before the election, feel about this?
McCain knows he’s going down, we get that. But there are supporters of his that are still busting their ass, and he’s basically telling them that he doesn’t give a flying fuck. It’s a breathtaking insult to his staff, to his volunteers, to his party, and even to America. It doesn’t matter if the bulk of his audience will be watching him on the television, he owes his people (and even the nation), one last rally.
So this is how the cowardly McCain wishes to go out — not with a bang, but with a whimper.