Don't Go West, Old Man - Ear-Plugs Ticket Freaks Over Tough Interview

Barbara West, a reporter at WFTV in Orlando, Florida, may find herself in the gulag if her interview subject is elected VP next month. West had the temerity to ask the Plugged One some tough questions on the minds of American voters. Now, the station has been barred from ANY interviews with the Ear-Plugs Ticket and a tete-a-tete with Jill Biden was immediately cancelled. Nice.

But, more important, HAS BIDEN HAD AN EYE LIFT??? He's looked Botoxed since his ass-whooping by Gov. Sarah Palin in the VP debate, as noted by Michelle Malkin. (She calls this the best Biden interview ever.)

So, let's recap:

• hair plugs
• eye lift
• Botox
• younger wife
• obviously capped teeth in Hollywood White (an actual color, ask your dentist)
• bristles when questioned

Yup. The Plugged One has some ego. Hey, Ms. West, maybe you should have asked about his cosmetic surgery rather than his campaign's cosmetic policies.

Cash and Carry?

I don't want to cast aspersions on Neel Kashkari, our new Interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability. (Our what???) He has an impressive resume and I have no reason to believe he won't be anything but professional in his new duties overseeing our $700 billion bailout/rescue/Hail Mary.

But ...

Is the universe trying to tell us something? The man responsible for cleaning up this debacle, which was exacerbated by shocking payouts to Wall Street insiders and Fannie and Freddie executives, is named Kashkari, pronounced cash/carry, as in cash-and-carry.

Is this cosmic irony? Or are the karmic powers-that-be trying to tell us all that we need to stop using debt?

Just asking ...

No matter what, I wish Neel the best of luck.

Can McCain Pull This Off?

Yes.

If he can reach the voters directly ... Here are his challenges.

First, the polls are unreliable. When you look at a poll, you have to ask one question: what is the ratio of Democrats to Republicans? By upping the number of Dems or lowering the number of Repubs, a pollster can manipulate the results to favor Obama. I won't name names but this has happened more than once over the last few weeks.

Second, the MSM will run with these bad polls because they desperately want Obama to win. How else to explain the lack of coverage for Biden's outrageous gaffes about clean coal, who was president during the Great Depression, and his egregious debate whoppers? (I'm sure a few experts on the Middle East are scratching their heads about the "Biden-Obama Hezbollah-Lebanon" policy.) By pushing the idea that Obama's win is inevitable, they hope to sway undecideds and dispirit McCain-Palin backers.

Third, McCain has to step up to the plate. He has to make it clear to the American people that the Democrats blocked Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reform, enabling the housing bubble. He has to link Obama to the freshman senator's crazy cohorts, because, trite though it sounds, you really can judge a man by the company he keeps. And, most important, he has to give voters a reason to vote for him. What is he going to do to fix the economy? Tax cuts won't cut it.

Fourth, Americans need to realize they are being played - by the media, by the Democrats, by the Obama campaign, by George Soros, by moveon.org, by labor unions, and by Hollywood loons who make millions reading lines other people write for them. All of these groups have vested interests in presenting a candidate with no real job experience as a viable president. If McCain's campaign can't drive home the prospect of a Pelosi-Reid-Obama government, he deserves to lose.

I believe this election is closer than the polls say. Neither candidate has made the sale to voters. I'm not confident one will before November 4th, which actually favors McCain as the known commodity.

Can McCain pull this off? If he wants to.