Letterman on McCain’s campaign suspension

David Letterman just said that “you don’t suspend your campaign! McCain was to have guested on Letterman’s show tonight…now Keith Olbermann is the substitute. Good.

“If he suspends his campaign maybe in the White House he’d suspend being president.” And other similar words to that effect, including: this isn’t the way a hero acts.

He’s also asking why McCain doesn’t put Palin out to pinch hit for him. But you don’t suspend your campaign, Dave keeps repeating. You let your VP candidate carry on the campaign.

“So do you think he’ll ever come back?” Letterman asks.

“Not after the drubbing you just gave him, ” says Paul Shaeffer. (Laughter ensues.)

Dave says that this doesn’t “smell right.” It is rather odd, I agree. Suspend your campaign?

“Maybe because his poll numbers are sliding.”

Letterman is smarter than he lets on. Now it’s time for ‘Top 10 Questions’ – about the McCain campaign. If McCain has to rush back to fix the economy, Obama and Biden will have to, too, frets Dave.

Olbermann says that if one of the debates has to be cancelled (not delayed) it would be to McCain’s advantage that the VP debate is scratched from the schedule!

More from Olbermann: forget foreign policy – make Friday night’s debate “about the economy.”

Hey now – that’s way too common sensical to work for Out-of-his-depth McCain!