A George Divided Against Itself...

McCain continues to be abandoned by his own party.

Bill Kristol recommends McCain fire his campaign staff (no, that wouldn't seem unstable would it?). So, the McC campaign fires back with how Kristol is now in the tank for Obama. This is Bill Kristol they're talking about:

"Well, you know Bill is entitled to his perspective. And I used to work for Bill. And I can tell you personally sometimes he's brilliant and sometimes he's not. And this is one where it's the latter category. You know, I think unfortunately he has bought into the Obama campaign's party line."

Peggy Noonan had this to say at a summit on the 2008 election yesterday: "Obama seems older in a way," said the former Ronald Reagan speechwriter. "McCain has seemed herky-jerky. Obama has seemed like the older, steadier fellow since the economic crisis began." More juicy tidbits here.

And from the McCain team itself, the beginnings of a concession speech.

Oh, and to top it all off, the McCain team is totally losing it. Obama has them running in circles.
From TPM:

Now McCain Campaign Says He Will Offer Economic Proposals Tomorrow

By Greg Sargent and Eric Kleefeld - October 13, 2008, 4:51PM

Despite a top surrogate's suggestion over the weekend that McCain would be unveiling new economic proposals, we learned this morning that in fact John McCain wasn't planning to announce anything of this kind. Instead, in a big speech today, McCain revealed that the new change to his campaign was that he'd more aggressively take the fight to Obama.

Now it turns out the whole plan all along was for McCain to offer new proposals. And he'll be offering them tomorrow.

That's what the McCain campaign just announced on a conference call with reporters moments ago, a few hours -- coincidentally, we're sure -- after Obama made headlines with proposals of his own.

"John McCain has consistently talked about the actions necessary to preserve their financial and economic futures, as we've gone through this terrible crisis, and he'll continue to do so tomorrow," said economic adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin. "And that's the plan, it's always been the plan, and he will lay it out, and we should look forward to hearing from him."

Late Update: Holtz-Eakin said on the call that specific proposals would be forthcoming. "He will both sketch out a vision that has been in the process of being fully depicted since the beginning of the campaign, and also be offering new specific measures," he said on the call. I've edited the above to reflect that.

Late Late Update: If the plan all along was for McCain to announce "new specific measures" tomorrow, it seems odd that McCain spokesperson Tucker Bounds said this just yesterday:

"We do not have any immediate plans to announce any policy proposals outside of the proposals that John McCain has announced, and the certain proposals that would result as economic news continues to come our way."