09/25/2008
What’s the deal with McCain suspending his campaign?
Greg Cochran suggests, in the mode of Robert Heinlein’s Double Star, it’s because the actor who will serve as his double on the campaign trail until McCain gets over some undisclosed medical problem hasn’t quite recovered from his appearance-altering plastic surgery yet. Of course, in Double Star the elderly politician never recovers, so the 40-something ham actor winds up living an extra 30 years of the statesman’s life for him as Prime Minister of the Solar System.
Perhaps when the surprisingly spry UN General Secretary John McCain celebrates his 100th birthday in office, historians will begin to wonder why Kevin Spacey’s film career ended so abruptly in the fall of 2008.
But here’s my favorite, from david in the comments section:
"Or he’s having second thoughts: who wants to be president of a bankrupt country that’s soon to disintegrate?
"'I have seen the future, and I quit.'"
To be serious, though, I could imagine that McCain might have had some medical bad news and might want a few days to get second opinions and consider his options. That happened to me a dozen years ago and it doesn’t leave you in the mood for public dispay. If so, I wish him all the luck in the world.
Does anybody know what the Republican Party’s contingency plan is if a nominee has to drop out late in the race?
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