What Wasn't Said

On a Fox News segment today, McCain flack Tucker Bounds took issue with comments made by Bill Kristol on Fox News Sunday and in today's column which basically suggested that McCain's campaign is a complete mess and that everyone ought to be fired and the campaign rebooted. Video of Bounds here (second video on page).

Predictably, Bounds criticized Kristol for simply "saying what comes to the top of [his] mind" and for saying something that "wasn't very intelligent." But the clip ended with this:

We're going to carry through to Election Day, and I look forward to talking to Bill after Election Day when we can talk about, uh, you know, some of the more foolish things that made print.

This is not the super-confident McCain flack I have seen on numerous shows in previous weeks. Perhaps getting served by Campbell Brown and others about his outrageous remarks has tempered his hubris. But what I think the McCain campaign should be expected to say is "I look forward to talking to Bill after Election Day as we prepare our transition team ahead of inauguration, when we can talk about, etc."

They know they're in trouble. But they've got him right where they want him!