I raise a very good question for the McCain/Palin Campaign. Before the two months are up, it needs to be answered.

McCain supporters have always considered this election the Dems’ to lose. Obama supporters have always considered it theirs to win as almost a religious prophecy.

Makes for a much better game as the underdogs while McCain being up in the polls generally for the first time since the Spring has them demoralized.

Will it last? Probably not. But we expect the roller coaster heading towards november and hope to be at the top when the deciding day hits. Meanwhile every dip they hit will be crushing since it shows fallibility in the Messiah who could do no loss.

How do they respond? They make fun of old people and issue another ad that has Obama staring sternly, almost angrily, into the camera saying he is the one for real change.

McCain doesn’t haven’t it won by any means yet. But the Dem habit of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is once again a bad campaign plan as it was for Iraq.

The Battle of the Bulge.

Iwo Jima.

Okinawa.

Things can get tough towards the end. Fortunately, I think both McCain and Palin are the kind to keep their powder dry.

I summarized Obama’s ACORN ties here if anyone’s interested:

http://www.fightbarack.com/articles/2008/09/12/will-obamas-acorn-investment-net-him-several-stolen-states/

Half of me wants ro go dancing in the streets that we are doing so well.
The other half is too damn pragmatic and is waiting for the other shoe to drop.
We had better not let our guard down or they will come in like a flood
I do not know if I can make it till November 5th….and if we win…YES…I will dance in the streets then

Half of me wants ro go dancing in the streets that we are doing so well.
The other half is too damn pragmatic and is waiting for the other shoe to drop.
We had better not let our guard down or they will come in like a flood
I do not know if I can make it till November 5th….and if we win…YES…I will dance in the streets then

Loved the Cryptonomicon, what a great book. Highly recommend it.

Can’t do it without our support…and not just by blogging.

As we move forward into this contest, I think donations and phone calls will be needed even more.

is a very big if, naturally.

However, can you envision Obama suddenly righting his ship? The guy is reeling, off balance, back on his heels and flailing away at phantoms. He got used to the deferential treatment from the media and his Democratic opponents (including Hillary, who was gentle with the virgin campaigner), and clearly doesn’t like being hit.

In the meantime, his base in the media and the nutroots grow ever more shrill and ridiculous as their hackneyed attempts at smearing McCain and Palin come up empty.

Simultaneously, he must raise about $2 million a day to keep up with McCain’s money (big mistake not taking the public financing, too, as he promised – he thought the well would never dry up), and all accounts show it isn’t going all that well. He’s lost the idealists who thought he was “different” (the morons), and the leftists are feeling betrayed by his tacks to the center, even as he fails to make significant inroads with Hillary’s fund-raising machine.

No, it seems rather too much for poor Barry. As the late humorist H. Allen Smith once vulgarly described a man similarly in a hopeless state of confusion, “He didn’t know whether to fart, or wind his watch.”

If just running for President is too tough for him, it’s a good thing he won’t have to find out how really hard the actual job can be. Don’t worry, Barry: there’s always high demand for a good, experienced community organizer.

Theme; Obama’s out of touch

Fade from black to footage of Vietnam War protests with Bill Ayers statements about bombing the Pentagon, et al.

Bring in statements Obama has made about Ayers and photos of Ayers house where Obama commenced his career.
Narrator voiceover: “Obama may have forgotten the terrorist acts of the Vietnam era; or has he?”

Fade in absentees’ footage of Code Pink protests, et al over text of Obama stating there are “57 states”, 10,000 people were killed by tornadoes in Kansas, he was born as the result of the Selma march (4 years after he was born), Afghan translators were all in Iraq, Iran doesn’t pose a threat to us, etc., etc.

Fade in confused picture of Obama with audio of him stammering (which is most of the time without a teleprompter and never seems to make the MSM footage)

Narrator: “Barack Obama does know how to use a computer. But what else does he know? Can we really trust our future to a man that thinks OBL is text shorthand for Obama Big Lothario?”
(ok so perhaps the last bit was over the top. I suspect lothario would get a million Google hits after that.)

I was flipping through the channels early this morning and happened to stop on an old Bugs Bunny cartoon. As I was watching, Elmer Fudd was pointing his shotgun at Bug’s head sticking out oh his rabbit hole. Elmer turned his head for a minute and Bugs was gone, only to see him behind Elmer, sticking a load of dynamite in pants. Obama is reminding me alot lately of Elmer Fudd, clueless and being so focused on Sarah Palin he doesn’t see John McCain behind him filling his drawers with dynamite. I think that John McCains campaign has been run brilliantly up to this point and I hope he keeps it up.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4735295.ece
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There is a yawning gulf between what the Democratic candidate says and how he has acted. That’s why the race is so close*

Worth to read and to e-mail. I’m sending a letter to my local newspaper based on it.

1. Remember the last few months of the Democrat primary? How Barry was bleeding votes? I’m with you on not getting cocky (who knows what the next 2 months hold), but this is a guy who couldn’t even right the ship when he was just about guaranteed to win.

2. My 88 year old Grandmother doesn’t know how to even turn a computer on, let alone use email. (She just got an answering machine THIS YEAR. Seriously, my dad made her use it because she kept missing calls from the doctor). She votes.

I believe we should look at the race one day at a time with confidence tempered by humility.

The Obama campaign has been fragile for the last 6 months. He may have won the nomination, but he never really closed the deal. The fact that Senator Clinton started winning primary after primary, after the press had declared him victor has shaken the democratic party. They are divided and on edge. The slightest aggitation seems to bring a seizure in response.

The McCain camp must remain focused and poised. Despite the efforts of the media to paint Palin as inexperienced and McCain as out of touch watching them interact with the press and with the people I see a different portrait.

Yesterday was a good day for the McCain campaign at ground zero. McCain connected with the ‘man on the street’ and I witnessed the thoughtful statesman lay down his rose in reverence.

Obama appeared distant and aloof. When he tossed his rose, I felt his statement was, “Do I have to do this, grandma? Can’t we just go?”.

Watch the first 45 seconds or so:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67a8BYSx2DU&eurl=http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/11/ground-zero-etiquette-a-tale-of-two-roses/

Watching the Palin interview with Gibson I saw an assured Palin confounding the veteran newsman.

The left’s post interview rhetoric attempts to build a case on policy wonk rhetoric.”Palin didn’t even know what ‘the Bush Doctrine’ was!” Gotcha! I follow current events pretty closely and I had to look up ‘the Bush Doctrine’ on the internet for a definition. I sense that the heartland responded with a yawn.

Using the philosophy of one day at a time, yesterday was a good day.

I firmly believe one of Bush’s major errors in judgment was to try to fight a politically correct war (in Iraq). Maybe he felt it would soften the blow to the media and the left, I don’t know. The thing is, there is nothing politically correct or pretty about war. Wars are ugly, nasty businesses and the way to win them is overwhelmingly. Show the enemy who is boss from day one and don’t even think about letting them think they can sneak in an advantage. The whole issue about the limiting rules of engagement (schools, mosques, etc.) left us to fight the war with one arm tied behind our back. McCain, I believe, needs to learn from this and not let up, not get over confident. There is certainly reason for hope. It also appears the enemy is sensing change is afoot, (though I’m sure not the hopechangehope they were anticipating). Let’s keep at it and keep grinding them into the ground!!!

on another pickle.

He doesn’t like Sarah’s answers.

That must mean they’re good answers. The same can’t be said of his questions.

just wondering.

Sarah missed a chance to explain just exactly why Obama’s proposal isn’t a tax cut at all.

This is my summary-

Charlie: “We all know the economy sucks big time! So what exactly are you going to do that is different from BUSHCO (since common knowledge and KnownFacts dictate that Bush’s policies are the cause of economic uncertainties)

to the earmarks accusations. Point out that the job of a mayor or governor include acquiring some federal funds for local projects. If true, point out that she didn’t ask for “earmarks,” but instead asked for funds to be granted through the existing application process, through her Senators and Congressmen. She almost said that, but wasn’t quite that specific, and she should be.

She would have not been properly representing her constituents if she had instead played the part of Federal watchdog at that time.

A great answer on guns, though.

being only the Governor of a lowly western state? A different answer would have mentioned, “I may have felt somewhat like Steven Breyer felt when he was asked to become a Supreme Court justice.”

“Troopergate” was pretty clear, though.

She gave a new car to a woman who drove her car into a flooded wash (somewhere in or near Phoenix, I guess). The driver was saved by a Good Samaritan who helped her escape via a bridge above her car.

Question: Shouldn’t Oprah have given the car to the Samaritan instead of to the dummy who almost killed herself by stupidity?