McCain is Flailin', Is Palin Bailin'?

Hoo boy. McCain must be having flashbacks: " I'm hit! We're going down! NOOOOooooooo...."

His campaign is approaching terminal velocity on the way to auguring in. And now his choice of Sarah Palin as the Wing Person (no, too easy, not going to make any hardware references...) is going to be showcased on Thursday.

And her flight training is not going well. In aviator terms, she is washing out. Apparently her debate training went so poorly that a mock debate left a senior campaign staffer saying, " My God...what are we going to do?"

Given the response to Friday's debate, it is intriguing to note that with only 6 Sundays left before the election, Palin and McCain had no events scheduled yesterday. None. No talk shows, no rallies, no public appearances whatsoever.

What were they doing? What were they talking about? Were they even in the same place?

Here is my suspicion: They are planning the Hail Mary of the Week: Palin bails on the debate because of a "family issue" of some kind, or she bails on the campaign altogether, again because of family concerns.

An alternate possibility is that they are working on a plan to lower expectations so much that if she doesn't soil herself on camera, she appears to have won the debate.

One suggestion: emergency dental surgery, so that her replies to Gwen Ifill consist of "Errr...glurgh ufh ghaa sheesh Putin hufh hurfh prijj ta nohair nunh unh".

Which will make Joe Biden look like a beast for even responding with teeth in his head.

It's their only hope.