I wrote something Friday to the effect that I might look forward to voting for Sarah Palin for PotUS in 2012. Well, whattaya know, I might have to wait for 2016 to cast that vote. McCain ain't dead yet:

McCain leads Democrat Barack Obama by 50%-46% among registered voters, the Republican's biggest advantage since January and a turnaround from the USA TODAY poll taken just before the convention opened in St. Paul. Then, he lagged by 7 percentage points.

A post-convention bounce is to be expected. This is the exciting part:

McCain has narrowed Obama's wide advantage on handling the economy, by far the electorate's top issue. Before the GOP convention, Obama was favored by 19 points; now he's favored by 3.

Maybe people are starting to see through the Obama BS. He really hasn't got any ideas. Well, other than bad ones.

A year ago I suggested that the McCain campaign should adopt Black Flag's "Gimme Gimme Gimme", or maybe Darth Vader's "Imperial March" from Star Wars, as it's official theme song.

But I gotta admit, the old dude has impressed me. His campaign has been stronger, smarter, and more politically courageous than I'd ever have predicted. Maybe a better theme song for the McCain campaign would be Metallica's awesome new song Broken, Beat and Scarred:

"You rise, you fall, you're down, then you rise again.
What don't kill ya will make ya more strong.
Through black days, through black nights,
Through pitch-black insights.

Until the last, broken beat and scarred,
We die hard."

Oh, and hey, check this out ... I don't watch MSNBC (and you don't either, nobody does) ... but there's been some buzz among the blogs and on YouTube about what a circus their political coverage has been:

That's so funny.

Apparently MSNBC is getting tired of being a laughing stock:

NEW YORK — MSNBC said Sunday it is replacing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as co-anchors of political night coverage with David Gregory, and will use the two newsmen as commentators...

Throughout the primaries and summer, MSNBC argued that Olbermann and Matthews could serve as dispassionate anchors on political news nights and that viewers would accept them in that role, but things fell apart during the conventions...

All the drama made MSNBC a punch line when top NBC anchor Brian Williams appeared on Comedy Central's The Daily Show last week. "Is there no control?" Stewart asked him. "'Is it Lord of the Flies? "

A sheepish Williams said that every family has a dynamic of its own.

"But does MSNBC have to be the Lohans?" Stewart said.

It's not often that I agree with Jon Stewart, but he nailed it. MSNBC = Lord of the Flies.

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