Gaffs like that are priceless...

I was astounded. McSame's camp cannot be happy with their surrogate’s performance.

It was like asking a difficult question in a job interview regarding ethics or on details of someone's resume. He failed miserably to instill any sense of honesty or come close to answering the question. He couldn't put in favorable terms for McCain.

It clearly demonstrated... McCain = Bush

Meanwhile, I was flipping back and forth (I know, get a life) between Wolfee and Meet The Press.

Was it just me, or do others think Sen. (D-Mo) Claire Mccaskill kicked the "adviser to John McCain", Carly Fiorina’s, butt?

It was clear to me that when one has the high ground with regards to real issues it isn't hard to do well on behalf of your candidate.

Poor McSame surrogates.

About Mark Sanford: it is the opinion of most of the South Carolinians I know -- and I know plenty -- that Mark sometimes shoots himself in the foot, as a politician, by being a pretty straightforward guy who still has a naive fondness for telling the truth as he sees it.
So I would not read his stammering delay as a lack of preparedness, as the question he was asked today was one he surely anticipated. My guess would be that his penchant for telling the truth as he sees it, particularly under the spotlight of national TV, rendered him unable, in the moment, to go with the whopper that would have been required.

That said, Mark, though genuinely a nice person, is not necessarily the most organized or the brightest bulb in the bunch. Bright enough, of course, to already be a governor when he only entered politics in the early 90's. But not bright enough to know, during his first campaign, that my address was not part of his gerrymandered district. (I wasn't bright enough to know that either, but then I wasn't running for office.)

The net result of his oversight, and my wrong assumptions, was that I threw a Q&A fundraiser for him right before the election -- when time was increasingly precious -- for a roomfull of people who, in the end, could not vote for him.

Now here's where I give Mark credit as a good man if not a ruthless politician. His staff figured it out during the afternoon of the night in question. And told him. And called me. And so I offered to cancel the event so that he could apply his time elsewhere. But Mark said no, that if people had made a commitment to come, then he was not going to disappoint them. And so he showed up, and was gracious, and attentive and patient with people asking question after question as hours ticked by.
And maybe that sense of fair play, however unusual is why he's the governor now.
I, for one, think it's a shame he's a Republican. I disagree with a lot of his positions, but I know he has them from conviction and not expediency.

rabbit hole on C&L.com:

It should scare you shitless that someone like McCain is running for the most powerful office in the world and as president he hasn’t got a clue as to what is happening at the street level with regard to peoples financial problems. Worse, he surrounds himself with self serving, bloviating idiots like Phil Gramm who was more interested in cutting fat financial deals with foreign banks likes UBS that are teetering on insolvency. Yeah, it’s all in our heads. It’s a mental thing. Tell that to the millions that go to bed hungry every evening, or tell it to the elderly who have to decide daily whether to take medications or eat. We as Americans should be sick to our stomachs when people like McAsshole and his economic guru start blaming you for their f**k ups, their lack of oversight on their watch. More and more that old saying ” Let them eat cake” comes to mind when thinking of Rethuglican economic objectives. Too bad we don’t have use of that very effective device known as the guillotine as it might be kinda fun watching a few heads roll down Pensylvania Avenue.

and:

I mean they KNOW that Obama and the Democrats are painting him as Bush III, and they can’t get together and come up with even bullshit ways in which he is different? They have to KNOW that people are going to ask about his economic stands, and they have nothing prepared? This really is some piss poor management, and McCain wants to run the country?