Frum Tells GOP: Time To Cut And Run From McCain

Ahhhhhh!

It would be one thing for the GOP to stick with McCain through election day if there was nothing else at stake. But in a time of limited resources, with Democrats having a serious shot at 60 votes in the Senate, it was inevitable that there would be a public push to throw McCain under the bus.

David Frum is in the Washington Post today arguing that every dollar that the Republicans can shift to the Senate races, they should. It’s the peril McCain faces from taking public financing and thinking that he could tap the RNC’s cash at the same time (which nobody who criticizes Obama for refusing public financing ever brings up). If the RNC decides, like Frum, that Pennsylvania is a pipe dream and saving McConnell and Chambliss are paramount to the party going forward, they could pull the plug on McCain and there’s not much he can do about it.

There were already rumblings of this when the RNC decided to tap a $5 million line of credit for endangered incumbents. But Frum is also arguing that the new message going forward should be about the danger of having one party who controls both Congerss and the White House.

There were a lot of people echoing the "danger of Democrats unchecked" on the Sunday morning talking heads. Which certainly argues that they have decided McCain’s defeat is a foregone conclusion.