McCain claims he’ll chase bin Laden to the “gates of Hell,” but he can’t face Rachel Maddow?

[EV_Ares]

Surrogates for Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) presidential campaign rarely shy away from the chance to put out their talking points, regularly flacking on cable news programs. However, there is at least one cable news show they are avoiding: MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show.

Discussing the lack of impact Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-AK) inclusion on the McCain ticket has had with women voters (according to the latest CBS-New York Times poll), Maddow last night noted that McCain surrogates have repeatedly declined invitations to appear on the show:

MADDOW: Might it be that women care less about a candidate’s gender and more about a candidate’s position on the issues, like reproductive health, equal pay for equal work?

One note - we hope to have someone from the McCain campaign or another Republican guest on the show tonight to talk about this issue as we have contacted them about other issues on other nights. But no matter the topics, thus far at least, they have repeatedly said no one is available.

A long list then ran on the screen of McCain surrogates who have turned Maddow down, including senior campaign advisers Carly Fiorina, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Meg Whitman, Ed O’Callaghan and others.

rest of the read @ the link: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/19/maddow-mccain/

[Jennicut]

1. Cowards! Afraid of Rachel? She has them scared

because she would call out their asses on everything!

[whistler162]

5. Not surprising I heard she is....

a doctor

[blondeatlast]

8. What? nt

[blondeatlast]

2. I was watching that and cheering Maddow out loud. They are scared of

Rachel--that speaks VOLUMES about that campaign.

[Ian David]

3. After the whooping he took on The View, his ass probably still has welt marks. n/t

[AspenRose]

4. Rush: "Has anyone EVER HEARD of Rachel....MADDOW?"

Apparently, Rush, McCain has :rofl:

[BumRushDaShow]

11. And so Rush gives Rachael a free commercial and prop himself!

:rofl:

[carpe diem]

6. interesting...

Obama can 'handle' Bill O'Reilly but McCain can't handle Rachel Maddow? Pitiful.

[blondeatlast]

7. Great compare and contrast. I gotta pass that tidbit along! nt

[ITsec]

9. What a wimp...

Can't face Rachael, but thinks he can deal with Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong Il?

Puss....

I love watching this campaign crumble.

[Stop Cornyn]

10. In all fairness, Bin Laden's an old man on dialysis and Maddow's healthy and at the top of her game

McCain is probably right to assume that Maddow would make McCain seem slow witted and confused by comparison to her.