McCain’s Executive Energy?

Today Bill Kristol makes the argument that McCain’s bold move to suspend his campaign is meant  to depict himself as a decider versus a deliberator, not only distinguishing himself from Obama, the small time community organizer, but also the feckless weaver of empty speeches. In short, the point is to transform him from a Senator to an Executive in the public eye. The danger here is that his clever play looks like craven and desperate opportunism and that even worse, if his labor fails to produce any reasonable legislative fruit, he serves up even more evidence of his economic ineptitude. At a deeper level, it should give us reason to pause that McCain’s immediate response to an economic crisis is to call for frenetic fits of massive legislation (not to mention Cuomo as SEC chair). It might be instructive to remember that Hamilton foresaw presidents having both energy and prudence . . . . . .