Is Jeremiah Wright McCain's last gasp?

Davis (left) writes his strategy on the ball for Hewitt (right)

John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis, who famously attempted and missed a between the legs dunk when he played for the Celtics, told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that McCain might bring up Barack Obama's relationship with Jeremiah Wright. But why would McCain do this when his campaign already said that Wright would be off limits? Because Rep. John Lewis has forced their hand, I guess. When the Georgia congressman compared the hate-filled crowds at recent McCain/Palin rallies to hate-filled crowds at George Wallace rallies, he crossed the line.

"Look, John McCain has told us a long time ago before this campaign ever got started, back in May, I think, that from his perspective, he was not going to have his campaign actively involved in using Jeremiah Wright as a wedge in this campaign," he said late last week. "Now since then, I must say, when Congressman Lewis calls John McCain and Sarah Palin and his entire group of supporters, fifty million people strong around this country, that we're all racists and we should be compared to George Wallace and the kind of horrible segregation and evil and horrible politics that was played at that time, you know, that you've got to rethink all these things. And so I think we're in the process of looking at how we're going to close this campaign. We've got 19 days, and we're taking serious all these issues."

So the goal is to refute the charges of coded racism by . . . attacking the angry black man that knows the other black man? I see. I don't know what this would even accomplish. No one cared when McCain finally mentioned Bill Ayers, and he was a lot worse than Wright. Besides, what could they possibly say about Wright that wasn't already said during the Democratic primaries, which Obama also won?