but now he s opened the door so maybe she might want to create a little daylight there and please the right wingers. on the mccain campaign, a five-spiral crash. i think what s fascinating with this is so much of what else seems now in retrospect to be fairly solid political judgment, mr. bush seems to have sort of subtracted his impact from whatever happened. wasn t mccain s campaign largely a crash because the bush economy crashed? yeah, and there s a reason, i think, the mccain folks did not want him to campaign for them, nor any other republicans. i wonder how he wrestles with that? i think we have here another sense of character trait which was denial, and sometimes the truth is so awful, you have got to be in denial or you go insane. well, okay. we ll just leave that right there. i m not going to make a choice of those two. craig crawford of cqpolitics.com and also msnbc. good to be here. that countdown for 3,229th day since that aforementioned previous pres