I see where you are coming from. But McCain has been almost nonexistant in this campaign to this point. I say that for once in this campaign that he needs to take the initiative and actually do something big without waiting for a cue from Obama. His campaign thus far has been nonexistant and if it continues this way until the convention it may very well be too late to generate any excitement.
I think he’s withstood a week of Obamamania fairly well, and I’d rather have him save his veep thunder (hoping there’ll be some thunder!) for the end of the summer when people pay more attention.
My biggest issue is that I want to see Obama painted as the laughably and frighteningly far-leftist that he is. That should be the base to the Obama jokes and that should really get put across while McCain simultaneously comes out proactively with a strong energy and economy issue. (I’m with you on the proactive bit!)
I think McCain had to ding Obama on his supposedly heroic trip, and he’s done that. I don’t even really mind that he was seen dowdily tooling about a supermarket while he was at it. But I really want to see a double-barreled message than contrasts McCain’s strong energy and economic solutions with the whacked out radical socialism of Obama.
Just a little arm-chair campaign managing here, but it’s somehow therapeutic!