Quote Of The Week (With Update)

"It's a dangerous road, but we have no choice. If we keep talking about the economic crisis, we're going to lose."

-- a top McCain strategist explaining why the McCain Campaign has decided to go all negative on Obama.

I have no doubt that this statement will end up in an Obama ad. Why does Camp McCain keep saying stuff like this? If you are going on the attack, just do it, and let the other side argue that you are simply trying to change the subject. Don't announce that fact yourself.

You're a Republican, dammit!! Start acting like one.

And while I'm at it, I guess you can put this one in the McCain "oops" column as well (from Josh Marshall):

Faced with health care plan numbers that didn't add up, McCain's economics advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin has just announced that McCain will make up the difference with big cuts to Medicare. I guess they really are writing off Florida.

A good debate topic for tomorrow night perhaps?

UPDATE: Looks like the McCain Camp might have picked the wrong time to try to change the subject:

Despair about a weakening global economy is sweeping across Wall Street, propelling the Dow Jones industrials down more than 700 points. Investors around the world have been selling off stocks as they come to realize that financial systems in the United States and other countries need more than government bailouts to fix them.

The Dow is in striking distance of its biggest one-day point decline — 778, which the blue chips suffered a week ago when investors feared the bailout package might not pass Congress. * * *