Many in the main stream are calling tonight’s debate between John McCain and Barack Obama , McCain’s last stand. Once again they are saying that McCain needs a knockout blow or all is lost and Obama wins the Presidency. Even many who are conservatives see tonight as McCain’s Alamo and unless he blows Obama away with the so called knockout blow it’s over.

While I agree that McCain needs a good night I totally disagree that unless he scores a, “knockout,” that the election is over. Let’s look at a few facts concerning this and for that matter the other two Presidential debates.

FACT ONE : the media bias toward Obama makes it impossible for most to even consider McCain the winner in any of the debates. All Obama has to do is show up and thank the Debate Commission and everyone falls all over themselves claiming Obama the winner.

FACT TWO: knockout blows seldom happen in a debate. In fact the last real knockout blow took place in 1984 when Ronald Reagan used his marvelous sense of humor against Walter Mondale telling how he would not use Mondale’s, “youth and inexperience,” against him in the election. Ending all challenges about Reagan’s age and putting Mondale on the defensive the remainder of the election.

FACT THREE: with three liberal moderators deciding which direction the questioning will go, while they are not obviously leading the questioning to favor Obama they are posing questions that are safe for Obama. Even the, “town hall,” format where Tom Brokaw had six million Internet questions to chose from, know one can tell me that there were not questions available that could have presented a negative view of Barack Obama so Brokaw chose six safe questions and fourteen safe questions from the audience.

FACT FOUR: a debate has never decided the outcome of an election and this election is far from over regardless of what happens tonight.

So what does McCain have to do in order to score points against Obama. After all this Democrat nominee is a mystery in so many ways that he is in actuality the most vulnerable candidate to ever run for high office yet because he is so protected by the media his vulnerabilities are ignored.

McCain then in many respects should in like manner ignore much of the questioning and use the opportunity with a large viewing audience to go after Obama. Sure hitting him about Bill Ayers and other Obama associations including ACORN should be part of the attack but McCain should not dwell heavily on this otherwise it will backfire as he will be seen as only going negative.

Obama has massive vulnerabilities in policy and McCain again should ignore much of the safe line of questioning that will be posed tonight and go after Obama on substance. Obama has been touting his so called ,”tax cut,” for 95% of Americans. Fine, if that is what Obama wants to call it then McCain should in like manner call Obama on the deception and in no uncertain terms expose the lie with the facts that 44% of Americans do not pay taxes and that his entire ,”plan,” consists of tax credits that will be issued as refunds to the 44% who pay no taxes payed for by the 1% in whom Obama has indicated he will raise taxes. Also that because the credits phase down as more money is earned his ,”plan,” discourages work and creates a tax welfare state.

McCain must hit hard on Obama’s discussion with the plumber in which he said to, “spread the wealth,” is good for America and call it exactly what it is, SOCIALISM ! Outline in detail Obama’s spending plan including especially his $150 BILLION dollar health care plan that most believe will cost much more. And stress that the ONLY way it can be paid for is out of the pockets of the American people. End this illusion that Obama and the Democrats have created that Universal Health Care is free and stress the enormous cost and entitlement it would become at taxpayer expense.

Hammer Obama and the Democrats about their direct responsibility in the financial crises that we are facing today and quit being on the defensive about this main campaign issue. Name names, Dodd, Franks, Maxine Waters and others including Obama who protected Fannie and Freddie igniting the powder keg that exploded last month. Give dollar figures received by Obama and Dodd from the Fannie and Freddie PACS, to buy their protection from exposing the corruption that took place.

Regardless of the line of questioning McCain should hammer Obama’s inexperience and enforce in the minds of the American people the dangers of allowing a novice who has a questionable back ground to lead this nation and especially our armed forces.

Hammer again and again using the word Socialism in describing an Obama Presidency so that the truth about the direction this Socialist/liberal will take the country is driven home and finally the American people by the millions will hear the truth and not just the mania creating sound bites that have been played over and over by the Obamamedia.

If McCain hammers Obama tonight with the truth about what this Democrat truly believes and reveals the deception throughout his policy, his associations and his entire campaign, McCain by all the Obama backing pundits will lose the debate but he will gain the support of the majority of the people who watch the debate as the truth about Barack Obama is revealed.

Ken Taylor http://theliberalslies.blogspot.com