Perusing the various threads offering commentary re last night, I've read many posts speculating as to what the coming debates might hold in store. Specifically, will McCain finally reach his bursting point and simply lose it - on national television, in front of tens of millions of viewers??

That got me to thinking about a novel I read about a decade ago (penned by Jim Lehrer, ironically enough) entitled, The Last Debate. It covers a scenario not very dissimilar to the one being discussed in aforementioned threads - lone caveats being that the candidate is a Palin-like Rapture Freak, and that the blow-up is engendered and precipitated by the panel of journalist-moderators, after secretly colluding that that candidate simply HAD to be taken down.

Interesting, though, how times change - as does what one considers normal and politically viable...

At any rate, it's certainly worth a few bucks, should you be a political junkie (yeah, like anybody at TPM fails to meet that description <g>).

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Debate-Jim-Lehrer/dp/1586480049