Barack McGovern wants to drop Eagleton from the ticket

The only problem is that he's trying to dump the GOP's wildly successful vice presidential nominee, not his lackluster one:

In memos, e-mails and phone calls this week, Obama campaign officials have urged surrogates and allies to mention Republicans who are "nervous" about the Palin pick and to link those worries to George McGovern's aborted vice presidential pick of Thomas Eagleton in 1972, according to three Democratic surrogates.

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On Wednesday, the campaign's chief surrogate wranglers distributed a three page compilation of  quotes from Republicans concerned about the Palin pick. (See the text after the jump.)  One surrogate said he had been urged to bring up the example of Eagleton in order to seed the idea that McCain might consider dropping him from the ticket.

How tin-eared does the Obama campaign have to be to think that McCain would drop Palin! after she spoke to 40 million people after being an "unknown" less than a week before?

How dumb would McCain have to be to drop a vice presidential candidate who is more popular than himself and Obama?

I love the smell of desperation in the morning...it smells like...victory. 

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