Republican optimists in short supply...

[blue-kite]

Jewish right (very) of center magazine has been (despite poll evidence of last week) repeatedly talking up McCain (and occasionally, can you imagine, even Palin)... but doom and gloom has finally set in.

Check out http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/33811?cp=6#comments - ignore the garbage about elitist Obama and look at paragraph five...

“Inside baseball, plus McCain has shot all his bullets when it comes to negativity. He is one more stunt, and one more angry lecture, away from a real landslide. His only hope now is to smile and try to mitigate the damage to come. Come on, prepare the spin: ‘It wasn’t as big as FDR’s victory in 1932, so we really won!’”