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Wake up John McCain ! Sarah Palin did her job.

He needs to come out firing tomorrow night. You need to have an economic plan that connects with the American people.

It is now or never time.

I got an email with a link to the whacko daily kos site. I don't know their methods in polling, but if their daily tracking poll is anywhere near have accurate, Sarah Palin got about a two day bounce from the debate. McCain continues to slide while Biden has tied Obama's popularity. Go figure,

http://www.dailykos.com/trendlines

Here's what my take is... what I believe the conversation between Palin's team and McCain's team sounded like...

Palin - we really need to fight hard, hit him on these associations, FHLMC/FNMA, etc...

MCCain- I'm not gonna get my hands dirty... If I lose, then I need to go back to the Senate and work with these guys... If I strike hard and lose, the MSM will blast me for the rest of my days... If I don't bring out these negative charges and still lose, I will be revered by the media, for running a positive campaign, AND helping make history...

Palin- but John- we owe it to America... I'm on the team to fight, you're a fighter...

McCain... let's try this... you go on the stump and see if you can move the dial, get us some points... I'm not getting my hands dirty... IF it's effective, and we'll see the polls shortly after, I'll consider it... If it's not, there's NOTHING I'm going to do differently at the next debate, except take the high road, and speak to the facts...

Again, that's my opinion, could be way off.

IMO, McCain made a big mistake in voting for the Bush-Pelosi-Reid giveaway and not having an alternative of his own.

Showing leadership on this issue by pushing hard for a better plan could have saved his plan. It also would have been a very concrete example of him being a “maverick” and fighting for improvement... and not just “change”.

Instead he went along with Bush, Pelosi and Reid. He didn’t even shine the light of truth on all the crud added to that bill.

Combine that with his withdrawal from Michigan and he may have guaranteed an Obama victory.