Tomorrow night at 9:03 Eastern....

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

...from coast to coat, as millions tune in, after another nauseating day of polling for the McCain campaign, after another day of mediocre MSM false-equating and capitulation that still fails to portray the McCain camp as anything but in a nosedive with this country's most famous five-time crasher at the joystick, as the internals for both camps further stack and solidify in mountainous Obama support, as the 35 to 1 ground advantage for our guy makes it clear there is only one possible outcome for the man who has been running for president for ten years....

We're going to get hit. We're going to get William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, Acorn, foreign donors, Chicago politics, voter fraud, attacks on foreign policy naivete and guess who Osama bin laden wants to win and new information about terrorist threats and failing to fund the troops and Michelle hates America and you just bought a flagpin and nobody knows how to steer America through danger like a POW. And more.

It's going to be ugly, hateful, false, vengeful, spiteful, petty, grumbly, mean, and perhaps even angry. But McCain has nothing to lose, and he knows it, and his campaign knows it, and his base knows it, and anything less than throwing the whole thing into openly utter chaos can ever possibly help him.

My guess is that Barack Obama will parry away the attacks, but I think there's a reasonable chance that McCain will be so oddly combative and unrestrained that some blows will land. My guess is that Obama could well emerge stronger for it all, that McCain will come across as even more erratic and uneven. But I think it's also possible that McCain moves votes in select swing states where working class white have been waiting to plug their fury into a scapegoat.

Just my fears here....because there's one guy here with nothing to lose and he's capable, we know, of doing damn near anything.

[TheCoxwain]

1. YAAAAWNNN ... I bet the election fever is pretty much over

[WheelWalker]

5. Agreed. Voting Is. The electorate has decided.

[tblue]

2. Have you ever seen Barack really mess up?

He is so sure-footed. He'll be fine. He will hit that shit right out of the park.

[my3boyz]

3. Yes..during the last debate with Clinton where they attacked him endlessly.

I hope whoever he is practicing with are being extra hard on him. YOu never know Bob S. might try to make it all about Obama's associations.

[Phoonzang]

4. Yeah that was the only time I've seen him screw up big.

A large part of that was probably the moderators as well. Schieffer is a Repub, but hopefully he wont' descend to Charlie Gibson/Snuffaluffagus levels of bias.

[FrenchieCat]

9. He didn't screw up big even then.........

they were relentlessly insulting and condescending in their attacks.....and he still manage not to lose his cool...beyond having a hard time that what was happening to him could happen in America, in 2008, in a Nationally broadcasted debates. It was surreal for more than just him. Who knew that ABC would question the patriotism of a man simply because it was his fortune to be born Biracial. It was pretty incredible.

[Clio the Leo]

6. Brace yourself.........

... for the third installment of the most boring debate series in the history of American politics.

Mark my words.

Both of them are smart enough to know ..... yes, even McCain ...... that mud slinging wont win them any undecided voters. It's too risky.

[Clio the Leo]

7. ... and let me ad...

If John were gonna unload on him, he would have already been testing it out in his speeches this week, and he's not. He's scaled back.

The article that has been quoted here, said that he expected the Ayers issue would come up, not that HE would bring it up. I take that to mean he expects the moderator to bring it up.

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

8. I'd love to fall asleep during it.

[Vinca]

10. If McCain unloads an attack as you describe, it will result in 2 things:

the end of his political career and the destruction of whatever shred of dignity he still has. I guess it all depends on how he wants to go down in the history books.

[azmouse]

11. McCirclingthedrain is in a lose-lose situation.

If he brings up the subjects you mention, he loses. Independents are turned off by the ugliness of his campaign.
If he doesn't bring those subjects, he loses. His base wants him to get down and dirty and if Grampy refuses, he loses them.

He can't win. Just remember that... he can't win.

[RoadRage]

12. The problem for McCain is:

That not one of the issues you've mentioned is NEW.. or UN VETTED.

Thanks Hillary!

Seriously.. people know about all of the above mentioned "issues" and realize that they're all BS... the more McCain pushes them.. the more hollow they ring.

So punch away McCain.. you just look like an old guy swatting at flys.

[Born_A_Truman]

13. Obama should turn to McCain and say

"John, you're better than this. At least I thought you were. I was wrong."