I don't know if McCain can survive a really bad week, especially since this is convention week.  He needs a bump out of that.  Or at the very least he needs to drag Obama down.  The consensus is now universal: Obama is in the very high 40s and may be headed into the fifties, while McCain's numbers are incredibly volatile and only getting into the mid-40s in Rasmussen's Likely Voter model.

He needs a good week.

If he has to throw Palin under the bus, he may well be dead.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin