What the hell is going on?

Watching this election unfold has been a rollercoaster - (sorry, too lazy to find a less worn metaphor). A few days ago I was sure it was over. Now I am back to wondering and being unsure again. My gut checks are almost inexplicable at this point. The latest ABC WAPO poll has McCain gaining 5 points since the debate. Is that why? Maybe.

This whole year does not sit well with me. And not because my candidate was shown the door. Though, that did not help. It started well before June. Clinton fought hard, but never with the best ammo she had. This is not "Clintonian"...she did not fight like the "Clintons I knew". She did, however, remake her image. The Hillary of September 2007 was seen as entitled and imperial. The Hillary of September 2008 is seen as a smart, tough, fighter.

It made no sense for her to avoid using the best ammunition if she "will do anything" to win. Anything except take down the most fragile candidate since McGovern??? Any number of readers here could have (given what the Clinton's surely knew and about 500,000 dollars)- taken Obama down in January with ads featuring Ayres and Wright. McCain ran ads for two weeks in July and leveled the field - readying it for what I thought would be the knock out in August or September.

Again: NOT HARD. The depth of BHO's deceits are available for all to see. NoQuarter has compiled a great data base of Ayes/Obama ties that goes back generations. and Ayres is just one element in the Obama charade.

McCain is being pushed to the wall...yet again...the info on Obama is out there waiting to be put in concise, irrefutable 30 second spots. And yet his punches are glancing blows in, ads and in the 1st debate. It feels intentional.

It is as if we are being gamed. I've felt this since Iowa.

Today it seems the game is still on. Pelosi's behavior yesterday is BIZARRE if she wants BHO to win. She made a jackass of herself and reminded Independents why they don't like or trust Democrats. An ad with Pelosi/Reid/Obama's faces asking: Is this who you want in charge of your money for the next 4 years? Is a GOP no brainer. Then again 2 years of these 3 in charge, with Bush back in Crawford, and the GOP brand comes roaring back and no conservatives have to stomach a President McCain. All the while, they have a field day eviscerating Carter 2 and setting up President Gingrich in 2012. Not a good trade. But not an awful one either.

Whatever mercy the GOP is showing BHO in 2008 will not be shown Pelosi in 2010. Pelosi is Speaker for 4 years if McCain wins. She is Speaker for 2 more years if Obama wins.

I don't know what the game is. But I still believe much of it is unseen and unexplained, and going on like gangbusters behind the scenes. McCain does not seem RESIGNED to me. He seems like a man not all that worried. Biden, on the other hand, is not wearing the VEEP collar with any joy. And frankly, Palin is just fine. She's going on Right wing radio and kicking ass. Screeching about CBS/Couric is all well and good - but guess what - the voters she's "in charge of" don't watch Katie Couric. I am sure Gwne Iffle will do her best to trip her up Thursday. We shall see...

That's it for now.