McCain Gaining Speed But Never An Ego

It's time to push as much as we can!

With Senator McCain's "blitz" in full swing... can Obama guess what he needs to do now? Obama assumed that everything was good for him and that he could "run down the clock" until the election is over. Obviously, it didn't work. Senator McCain is now gaining in every poll and leading in a few. States that Obama's camp thought were a done deal like Ohio are now showing him at an average of only 0.5% ahead in recent polls. Obama is no longer ahead here in Florida (I admit, Senator McCain's lead is within the margin of error still) and is showing problems with the youth and female votes he needs.

Senator McCain's campaign has made great improvements over the past few months. Coalitions like this one and better coordination are leading the way towards a victory. But, unlike the Obama camp... we must never get cocky. This is still a 50/50 race and we must do everything possible to help elect Senator McCain as the next President of the United States. Check out the article below.

How’d This Happen?

Jennifer Rubin - 08.06.2008 - 12:08 PM

The debate over energy is going full tilt. Somehow Barack Obama is now reduced to arguing that tire inflation is a substitute for domestic energy development. I am not sure how calling your opponent “ignorant” qualifies as “the high road,” but I do agree with this take from the Left that “Obama will lose this exchange and wind up sounding like a Dukakisian know-it-all.”

Obama does have a few problems on the subject of energy: he is flip-flopping (or maybe not) on drilling and on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), he is saddled with his recalcitrant Democratic Congressional colleagues who fled rather than vote on drilling, public opinion is overwhelmingly against him, and he has his facts wrong (at least on oil savings from inflated tires). Mainstream media outlets frown at his windfall profits tax and SPR flip-flop which are seen as ham-handed, very old school gimmicks.

This episode is classic Obama: he was slow to recognize he had a problem, he looks alternately recalcitrant and then irresolute (as with the surge) as be bobs and weaves between his base and political reality, and he condescends to voters. And then he doesn’t have a good answer for his own voting record. But it is really a failure of common sense: why not include domestic drilling as a significant part of our energy approach? (After several weeks someone seems to have explained this to The One.)

The haphazard and delinquent effort to catch up to McCain’s energy policy blitz (which has been going on for weeks now) also tells us something else: Obama thinks he can ignore whatever McCain is doing. It is not surprising for the candidate who considers himself already President to disregard what his opponent is up to. The temptation is great to try to run out the clock and get by on pablum and pretty pictures.

But Obama does it at his peril . He is now struggling to find a way to counteract the McCain energy offensive. You have the feeling that each day will bring a new challenge/gambit from the McCain camp (What’s next? Jiffy Lube tune-ups for the entire press corps?) and the rest of the day will be spent watching Obama and his media allies trying to swat away the incoming fire. It is what happens when you take a victory lap months before the first votes are cast.

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