an early draft of the McPalin obit . . .

This afternoon I received an email from this guy - Peter Wehner, a senior fellow at the Ethics & Public Policy center and a former speech writer for W - who today wrote an early draft of the McCain-Palin Campaign obituary that you can read here. Essentially, Wehner concludes that the only way McCain can win is if Obama "badly slips up in the last five weeks" or if McCain gets "an assist from outside events." Wow. You gotta give it to 'em. This guy is keeping it real. Talk about your "no spin zone." If you read the essay carefully, you can almost hear the tone of resignation in this guy's voice. He seems to be conceding the election - and this guy is a GOP election insider - as he notes with particular sadness the enormity of Palin's public display of incompetence and the disastrous/disturbing decisions made last week by McCain and his "America First" campaign directors.

It's one thing to read this analysis on HuffPo and Daily Kos, but when the GOP insiders start writing this stuff, it echoes a little louder.

Hey Barack, thanks for running a campaign that has many of us actually excited, even inspired, about the possibilities of a more perfect Union. Thanks for not putting us in the position that we must sit around for the next 5 weeks and hope for a McCain implosion. Thanks for giving us something positive to hope for . . . to vote for . . . to argue for. You know, it was Mother Teresa who, it is reported, was once asked if she would come out and join a march against war. She said, "No. I will not march against war, but if you have a march for peace, I will be there." We'll be there on Nov. 4, voting for change and for possibility. (yes we can)