For stocks to rise?  For the asteroid?  For the inevitable collapse of capitalism as we know it?

No, I’m waiting for the McCain/Palin ticket to use common sense.

The actions of the McCain/Palin team as of late seem like the last ditch efforts of a desperate ticket.  So desperate, in fact, that they aren’t really thinking through the claims they are making… and how they may backfire on themselves.

1.  Calling out “Who is Obama?” This is just another method of pulling the “inexperience” label back out and giving it a healthy dose of fear.  But Obama’s been majorly in the public light since 2004. 

Before September of this year, when had ANY of us ever heard of Sarah Palin? Was she properly vetted? 

Did the McCain/Palin ticket ever consider that people might turn around and think: but we barely know Sarah…if knowing a person mattered so much, why did McCain choose her?

2.  “Palling around with terrorists.”  Sarah’s able to string words together a little more coherently, but apparently still not able to really think about the fact that by calling for a review of people’s connections to “questionnable” groups, she’s asking for a load of her own trouble.  As an article in the Huffington Post says:

But if McCarthy-era guilt-by-association is once again a valid political consideration, Palin, it would seem, has more to lose than Obama.

Palin’s husband only recently cancelled his membership in the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP), a group that is just as volatile as Ayer’s Weathermen.  The difference?  Obama was 8 when the Weathermen were active, and Ayers is now a recognized community contributor and professor.  The AIP is still active, and her husband is an adult, choosing to associate with these people. Obama has denounced the actions of the Weathermen.  Palin hasn’t denounced anything.

Let’s add in Palin’s freaky religious affiliations are much more current and concerning than any Reverend Wright connection. 

McCain and Keating is another area they stand to lose, and it’s a much more powerful connection today as the economic crises continues to barrel towards depression-era memories.  McCain’s campaign advisor connected with Fannie and Freddie as much as up to a few weeks before they fell, and McCain’s constant “palling around” with George Bush do NOT paint a great picture.

If you’re going to start going down the aisle of accusation merely by being in the same room with “questionnable people”, McCain and Palin have a LOT to lose. 

3. Angry Mob Rousing.  Have you seen clips of these gatherings?  The only thing McCain/Palin haven’t yet started was handing out pitchforks and torches.  I live in a battleground state.  This is NOT what we look like, and the only people going to those rallies are people who already are planning on voting for McCain/Palin.  It looks like they are trying to stirr up trouble, not voters.

4. We’re Gonna Get ‘Em.  We’re going to make those who brought us to this low economic predicament PAY.  Oops…except that McCain is one of them.  People point to the Democrats as the group that allowed Fannie and Freddie to make subprime loans, but the Republicans supported it too.  And the people giving the mega tax breaks to the corporations are the Republicans - including McCain.  He might want to be careful how much he points the finger at himself.

5. John’s Got the Answers.  If you watched Tuesday’s debates, McCain repeated, over and over again, that he knew how to solve the problems.  Not just one problem, but all of them.  Social Security, Medicare, Iraq, Economic Meltdown - he’s got all the answers, and…if you vote for him, he’ll put them in action. 

What kind of bribery is this?  If you’ve got the answers, McCain, then friggin’ suggest them.  TELL US.  TELL SOMEONE!  Tell Congress.  Behave like a leader and do what is best for your country.  Take your straight talk express and put your country first!

6. New York Times Booing.  What is this?  First you don’t let anyone interview you.  Then you say that it’s because the media won’t interview you.  Then you ask for them to be fair and report accuracy, consistently saying they are one sided and liberal.  Then you point to them as a resource for information in the SAME BREATH as booing that resource?  Consistency much?

Add in that this comes from Sarah “I like to censor books, and can’t put a sentence together correctly” Palin.  Perhaps the writing of the New York Times is beyond her comprehension.  It at least has subject-verb agreement, which we already know Palin has issues with. 

These are reasons the rallies of McCain/Palin carry the stink of fear and desperation - because they are afraid and desperate to do whatever Swift-Boat politics they can eek out before the big day comes.