Most people seem to think that choosing Palin was crazier, but I disagree. It is a cliche that VP picks have little influence on campaigns. It is not a cliche that presidential campaigns are not affected by not campaigning. That being said, the suspension is actually much less crazy, because they aren’t actually doing it, in much the same way that picking Palin would have been a lot less crazy if they’d actually picked Huckabee.
Tags: McCain gambit, Palin
September 26, 2008 at 4:38 am
[...] I’m going to have to disagree with my colleague and say that even if McCain had actually suspended his campaign for a few days in some meaningful [...]