Blink

It’s High Noon, and Steely-Eyed Maverick John McCain blinks, big time.

MORE: On HuffPo, Sam Stein quotes GOP Consultant Craig Shirley:

“It just proves his campaign is governed by tactics and not ideology,” said Republican consultant Craig Shirley, who advised McCain earlier in this cycle. “In the end, he blinked and Obama did not. The ’steady hand in a storm’ argument looks now to more favor Obama, not McCain.”

This is funny: NotAssmissile from Power Tools opines:

Did McCain “blink?”

That’s how Obama supporters and some of Obama’s MSM cheerleaders are spinning John McCain’s decision to participate in tonight’s debate. It’s possible, I suppose, that undecided voters might view it that way.

On the other hand, I suspect that McCain has acted precisely the way most of these voters would want a prospective president to act.

Yeah, I’m sure most voters wanted McCain to pledge to stay in Washington eschew the debate until a bipartisan deal is reached, and then back out of his promise a dozen or so hours after he arrives in Washington and accomplishes nothing, because Obama calls his bluff and says “no deal” to postponing the debate to preempt Palin’s scheduled debacle.

After all, nothing says “presidential” like making a poorly conceived but unequivocal commitment to do something, and then backing out of it, looking like an ass.