Not Yet

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) says Palin is not ready yet, but will be by the time she gets elected. Schwarzenegger will be campaigning for McCain in Ohio this week. I wonder if these remarks will get the Governor will get banned as a surrogate, much like Fiorina?

The Hypocrisy of McCainomics

Meredith Vieira takes McCain to task for blaming the current economic crisis on CEO "fat cats" and the corruption in Washington, when Carly Fiorina, the face of the McCain economic team got a $45 million golden parachute as her company laid off 20,000 workers.



And this was yesterday:



(H/T: Think Progress)

Who Advises

Obama "hammers" McCain on the economy in his latest. I'm not sure if it's quite that powerful but it is an improvement over most of his previous ads. Aside from the recurring characters -- John McCain and George W. Bush -- the ad also brings in Carly Fiorina and Phil Gramm.

Can't wait for FactCheck to come out with clarifications about the ad and how Fiorina only got $21 million technically or that Gramm is officially no longer a part of the McCain campaign. Yeah, only $21 million is going to make people feel a lot more empathetic towards Fiorina and with "deregulation" fast becoming as common as Michael Phelp's gold medals, (OK, maybe not that common) Gramm's not a bad choice either.

Bonus fact: Fiorina is supposedly in the dog house over her recent comments and there are reports that the McCain camp has cancelled all her pending appearances. So, she may not be able to accuse people of sexism and elitism.