[2ndDivisionVet]

Great advice!

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Palin appears ready to take the heat to make that case. But McCain seems ambivalent to the point of being bipolar on whether he wants to take responsibility for peeling the hide off Barack Obama.

Where's the graphic of the little boy saying "That's racist!"

[nycoem]

Man up.

[allmost]

Don't know, Buchanan's endorsement is the last thing McCain Needs IMO...

[Anima Mundi]

can one imagine how the media would have reacted had they learned that a GOP presidential nominee was introduced to politics and worked in harness with a KKK bomber of black churches in the 1960s, who was quoted the morning of Oklahoma City as saying he wished he had planted more bombs?

A clever ad could be made along this line...first framing it as above, then switching it around.

[T Lady]

Well, I'd say McCain/Palin got more than a dead cat bounce from the Dow today: It closed up at 900+ points.

[AmericanInTokyo]

The more the main stream media whines about McCain and his followers being raaaaacist! the more you know you are over the target, the bombs (figuratively speaking here folks) being released over the target are hitting with ferocity, and their lead is shrinking. I saw panic in TWO Obama spokesbot's faces on live TV when McCain started to take off the gloves. Their real words and emotions were essentially "STOPPPPPITTTT!" even though they smuggly and on the surface said "this is having the opposite effect you know." These saps are not good poker players. LOL!

As Laura Ingraham said, "look, if the NYTimes on 5 Nov. praises the guy for running a very civilized, clean campaign, you will know he had lost. If they excoriate him on Nov 5 for being meanspirited and low and racist and base, THEN OBAMA LOST!!!" ;-)

[Rokke]

Hell must be a block of ice. I think I agree with Buchanen.

[Brad from Tennessee]

In 1948 most of the polls leading up to November inaccurately favored Dewey over Truman. The theory for this error was that since the polls were conducted by telephone an “affluence bias”—in Dewey's favor—existed because many U.S. households could not yet afford a telephone. Sixty years later many individuals and households don't have land lines but instead rely on cell phones. But I think the biggest problem for polls this year is the “Bradley effect.” Juan Williams, on FOX News about a week ago, said Obama’s campaign experts believe the “Bradley” bias is increasing the margin of error in polls by at least six points. Obama often over polled during the primary.

[antceecee]

I have not read a Pat B. opinion piece in a long while. He had become a symbol of conservatives gone wild to me.
This piece is thoughtful and back to the Pat B. I used to admire many years ago. I hope his rep is not so tarnished, that the McCain campaign will not even consider listening.

[allmost]

What are your favorite points?

[Kevmo]

But if John McCain cannot raise grave doubts about Obama’s agenda, his associates, his record, his character, his fitness to be President, Obama is going to win by default.
***McCain doesn’t even have to raise the doubts. All he has to do is poke his scrawny little head above the trench line long enough to point in the direction of FR and say, “over there”. Then he can go back into his dugout and we’ll close the sale for him.

[TalBlack]

“But if John McCain cannot raise grave doubts about Obama’s agenda, his associates, his record, his character, his fitness to be President, Obama is going to win by default.”

Any nation that NEEDS anyone to raise doubts about a Stalinist like Obama may be too stupid to live much longer.

[hershey]

Pat nails it.

[hershey]

Gov. Palin and Obama are both in NH today. Let’s pray her speech is a barn burner.

[dennisw]

McCain doesn’t have the cojones to say at the debate===

“I have proven I am a natural born US citizen. Obama must do the same. Where is your birth certificate?”

Then Phil Berg comes in with proof of Obama Kenyan birth and other disqualifiers

[o2bfree]

Why are we worried about being called racists by the democrats. We’re letting that fear set our campaign strategy. Especially when we’ll be hearing it for FOUR frickin’ YEARS if we fail now.

We need an ad on Odinga IMMEDIATELY.

The cry of racism can be responded to so easily its not worth worrying about.

[af_vet_rr]

As McCain is an establishment man on illegal aliens, NAFTA and Wall Street bailouts, uneasy with social issues like affirmative action and abortion, he lacks the full panoply of weapons that successful Republicans like Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Bush II used to win two terms. He seems to confine himself to the limited arsenal Gerald Ford, Bush 1 and Bob Dole employed when they went down to defeat.

I normally don't agree with Buchanan but he's nailed it - McCain is running on Bush 1's campaign platform from '92 while Obama is running on Clinton's campaign platform from '92, and we all know how that ended.

People care more about their 401ks than they do about character or what happened in the '60s or '70s. If McCain doesn't get that this election is now about the economy, he'll be a guest at the inauguration in January instead of the focal point.

[TheFourthMagi]

Great article. First and foremost, McCain needs to go after Obama's agenda while promoting a better one.

And buy Sarah big blocks of airtime to address the nation.