Imagery is everything they say, and as the final week of campaigning unwinds, so to it seems does the McCain/Palin campaign.
Tuesday's developments provided the most delightful of scenarios of not one but two bus metaphors to work with, the straight talk express (SUV edition) forced to the side of the road by a flat tire and the Palin media Bus to somewhere sitting on the side of the road, stopped by mechanical problems (or a wish to shoot the messengers we suspect).
Perhaps symbolic as to how far off the road the Republican election campaign has deviated from the centre lanes and taken to wandering off in any old direction, hoping against hope to find a way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue at the end of the day.
Clearly they're not using a GPS, or even an updated AAA road map in their quest for high office, in fact like many a trip with far too many back seat drivers, the McCain/Palin tour de America (those parts that are really America, the Good America if you will ) has had a few diversions along the way.
First there was the inability to decide on how best to label the opponent, so far in just the last few weeks Barack Obama has wandered the roads as a friend of terrorists, taken the path of Socialism, apparently in the opiniono of a TV reporter with ties to the Republican party he's since moved on to Communism and today, became some kind of King of warehouse distributorship (The Big Box of wealth spreading), where he will re-distrubte all the money he can find.
As troublesome as all that has been for the Republicans to decide upon, even more worrisome for the McCain/Palin ticket (more so for the Palin end of it we think) have been the flurry of commentary about the VP candidate.
After her boost for the base of the post St. Paul convention, it's been a bit of lost highway for the Governor of Alaska. From those heady days as a fresh face and a game changer, the one time Maverick has in the last fourteen days, morphed into a rogue, a diva and today's nom du jour a "whack job".
This coming from inside the Republican campaign, apparently from upper echelon staffers punching out the missives from the McCain blackberry's. Not exactly the kind of promotion that you would think would result in a confident electorate ready to pick the McCain/Palin vision for the next four years.
The buses went off the road for a bit again today, not the first time this has happened and probably not the last as these final six days play out.
Kind of appropriate one guesses for a candidate that jumped to her fame trumpeting her opposition to a Bridge to nowhere, judging by the comments of her own party handlers, that's a destination this campaign is now aiming the bus for.
The tour to obscurity is nearing its final destination, a road that's leading to Nowhere...
Tuesday's developments provided the most delightful of scenarios of not one but two bus metaphors to work with, the straight talk express (SUV edition) forced to the side of the road by a flat tire and the Palin media Bus to somewhere sitting on the side of the road, stopped by mechanical problems (or a wish to shoot the messengers we suspect).
Perhaps symbolic as to how far off the road the Republican election campaign has deviated from the centre lanes and taken to wandering off in any old direction, hoping against hope to find a way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue at the end of the day.
Clearly they're not using a GPS, or even an updated AAA road map in their quest for high office, in fact like many a trip with far too many back seat drivers, the McCain/Palin tour de America (those parts that are really America, the Good America if you will ) has had a few diversions along the way.
First there was the inability to decide on how best to label the opponent, so far in just the last few weeks Barack Obama has wandered the roads as a friend of terrorists, taken the path of Socialism, apparently in the opiniono of a TV reporter with ties to the Republican party he's since moved on to Communism and today, became some kind of King of warehouse distributorship (The Big Box of wealth spreading), where he will re-distrubte all the money he can find.
As troublesome as all that has been for the Republicans to decide upon, even more worrisome for the McCain/Palin ticket (more so for the Palin end of it we think) have been the flurry of commentary about the VP candidate.
After her boost for the base of the post St. Paul convention, it's been a bit of lost highway for the Governor of Alaska. From those heady days as a fresh face and a game changer, the one time Maverick has in the last fourteen days, morphed into a rogue, a diva and today's nom du jour a "whack job".
This coming from inside the Republican campaign, apparently from upper echelon staffers punching out the missives from the McCain blackberry's. Not exactly the kind of promotion that you would think would result in a confident electorate ready to pick the McCain/Palin vision for the next four years.
The buses went off the road for a bit again today, not the first time this has happened and probably not the last as these final six days play out.
Kind of appropriate one guesses for a candidate that jumped to her fame trumpeting her opposition to a Bridge to nowhere, judging by the comments of her own party handlers, that's a destination this campaign is now aiming the bus for.
The tour to obscurity is nearing its final destination, a road that's leading to Nowhere...
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