McCain could have placed the blame exactly where it belonged, and sent his surrogates out to reinforce the message on the Sunday Morning Talk shows, cut and run ads to that effect, placing the onus on Pelosi and Reid to swiftly pass a clean, free-market oriented bill to fix “their” mistake.

But he did not. And some of us are now blaming Hank Paulson for handing a victory to Barack Obama.

One of the worst things about the Right-wing blogosphere is that we are well-nigh incapable of understanding that the average American is not a political junkie. We watch CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC, the NYT, AP, WaPo and every other major media house pump falsehoods and misleading and often strategically incomplete information out to the public every day and the typical response is to cite some guy’s debunking of it somewhere on the net.

The only problem with this? Little more than a hundred thousand people would see it at best … while tens of millions will see Couric, Brokaw and Blitzer cite Paul Krugman in placing the blame on “deregulation” and the Bush Administration.

Honestly? With all due respect, it’s beyond frustrating to read someone like gamecock assuring everyone that America would not vote for a liberal like Obama. Yes they would, GC. How many actual swing voters know of Obama’s extremist record on abortion, the crazy person he named his mentor, the near billion in pork barrel projects, etc.?

Trust me. Not many. The coverage of these issues in the Press is no more than a flash in the pan. Independents may say they distrust the Press, but after seeing one propagandistic hagiography after another day after day, on Election Day, the choice is in no doubt.

We keep failing to comprehend that knowledge and intelligence are two different things. A highly intelligent person is just as likely to make stupid decisions as anyone else if he makes them based on ignorance.

The average American voter is far from stupid – underestimating his intelligence is always a big mistake. But, let’s be honest, the average American voter is just as far from knowledgeable about even the stuff he claims are his top priority – underestimating the ignorance of the average American voter is just as big a mistake.

Once McCain, heck, the GOP as a whole recognizes that, we’ll be in much better shape.

It is easier simply to cooperate and graduate by letting that garbage slide when we’re further up the needs hierarchy, but the closer we get to the point of defending more basic needs, the cost/benefit equation changes to favor tossing that race card garbage out the window along with its purveyors.

Anyone playing any victim card has been “the other” in my eyes for a while now, and I am not above piling-on to the extent that I can get away with it.

Now on to McCain. As Rush mentioned yesterday, when it comes to foreign policy, “he mopped the floor with Barack Obama”. Unfortunatly when it comes to the #1 issue on people’s minds, the economy, McCain had nothing to say except to lower taxes and cut spending.

McCain is right, taxes and spending DO need to be cut. But he needs to do a much better job of selling this to the American people. NOT ONCE during the debate did he hammer home the fact that he, President Bush, and others in Congress have been trying – for the past several years – to warn of the impending real estate mortgage crisis. I was practically yelling at my TV for him to say SOMETHING about who’s really at fault here and what he can do, as president, to prevent it from happening again.

The Dems are quick to blame Republicans for anything and everything that goes wrong, justified or not. This works for them, too (see “change we can believe in”). Meanwhile, we have ample evidence of just who is at fault on this issue and the only people talking about it are us bloggers and talk radio. The majority of the American people will probably never hear it. The majority of the American people probably have no idea who ACORN is and how they are tied to Obama. John McCain can change all that if he wants to. Take off the gloves, Johnny Mac!!

For real – didn’t they control both the house and senate?

I’m curious why they didn’t fix this.