So McCain is back on the economy... he looks whipped... his only energy is coming from the crowds, which really want him to get back to being mean... Nice Johnny is back... but as his own people have indicated, he can't win if the conversation is financial... and his mortgage scheme has been as discredited as the gas tax suspension.
And I must be completely honest. Obama is coasting right now. He isn't doing anything all that exciting. But he isn’t going to get in his own way either.
What snapped things? I think the combination of being unable to pretend that they weren’t inciting some horrible behavior and being called out by Obama and Biden. Once they were called out, the only way to respond was to push harder or to pull back. And pushing harder was a clear trip into Colonel Kurtz Land. And pulling back is, in reality, a surrender.
Democrats will remain paranoid until McCain makes his concession speech and Sarah Palin does Saturday Night Live just before Thanksgiving. But at this point, Osama could put a dirty bomb in McCain’s Chicago HQ, leave bread crumbs leading to Obama’s door, and the public would still be looking to the response of the candidates to determine if the needed to shift to McCain, who is one brutal commercial showing all of his shifting of positions in the last two weeks alone from being wiped out in this effort.
And don’t be surprised if we see a lot more of The Clintons next week and through the rest of the campaign. They have to know that 2012 is no longer a real issue and that it’s time to refocus on 2016, when Biden will be 74 (and Hillary just 69) and vulnerable to age attacks.
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