ON NOT COUNTING MCCAIN OUT
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SUNDAY
On not Counting McCain out
There are several reasons to think that the Arizona Senator can once again pull even with Barack Obama:
The economic picture may begin to move in a direction that tends to neutralize Obama's stance that a McCain presidency would be “Bush lite”. Credit markets may well stabilize over the next week or so. The news about similar troubles in European and Asian markets will tend to demonstrate that the problem is systemic and transcends administration.
It will become increasingly clear that the democrats own the mortgage problem – not exclusively, but substantially – by virtue of the actions of key Obama allies to promote easy home loans and to stave off regulatory scrutiny of the lenders.
Obama will eventually be forced to spend time defending and explaining his associations with far left figures like that aging pentagon bomber-sympathizer who was far, far closer to the young Obama than just some guy in the neighborhood.
McCain is nothing if not a fighter. He will not go quietly – if at all.
You can expect at least one more Obama scandal to poke through the media wall of silence before this election is over...
And please don't trust the polls that show that Governor Palin “lost” the VP Debate to Senator Biden.
Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Fellow, classicist, military history and astute observer of the current political scene, agrees that Biden won the point count in the beltway and lost the debate – in the heartland.
....as the rounds wore on, Palin lost much of her nervousness, smiled, and finally came into her own as the voice of an outsider who was not impressed by the same old, same old DC smugness. And as she did punch back, Biden began losing his composure, sighing with occasional break-ins and interruptions.
The more data he cited (much of it, again, less than factual [e.g., Biden really did, as Palin noted, rule out coal-generated power; he really did once deprecate Obama’s Iraq suggestions as ill-founded and dangerous; and he really does wish to create a trillion dollars in new spending entitlements; and senior commanders really do think the tactics in Iraq, mutatis mutandis, are of enormous advantage in Afghanistan]), the less effective he became. He’s a good debater, but he ended up out-pointing Palin and still clearly losing.
Assigned Reading:
http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson100408.html
Stay tuned,
JBG
