Not surprisingly, the Ayers attacks don't appear to have worked. You can argue it's because McCain wasn't comfortable enough with them, or if only he'd been more full-throated—and included Wright—it would have made a difference. I doubt it. Attacking Ayers had to be just a cog in a much larger case against Obama (we tried to outline it here). Now people like Dick Morris seem to think linking Acorn and Obama will make a huge difference. Acorn obviously deserves all the obloquy being heaped on it (see our editorial here), but I can't see many people voting on the issue. People are focused on the financial crisis, and unless/until McCain has a compelling, future-oriented message and program on the economy, nothing else is going to help him much. Check out this post from Ben Smith. A Republican consultant wrote him about a focus group where he aired an incredibly harsh anti-Obama spot that everyone in the room believed—but it still didn't matter. Here's a quote from one woman in the focus group: "Well, I don't know much about this terrorist group Barack used to be in with that Weather guy but I'm sick of paying for health insurance at work and that's why I'm supporting Barack."
Once again, I'll go back to this whole McCain approach to Obama. This election is a national referendum on Obama. There are just way too many cards in the democrats favor right now to say otherwise. If the public is comfortable with Obama, he will win. If not, he won't
The whole point for McCain is to show that Obama's unfit to be president. McCain's crew keeps attacking Obama by throwing shit against the wall and hoping some sticks. It won't work.
What McCain has to do (and it may be too late) is paint a portrait of Obama as an untrustworthy, anti-American, socialist by using each of these dots as the paint.
Wright dot
Ayers dot
Pfleger dot
Farakhan dot
Fannie Mae contributions dot
Chris Dodd and Barney Frank dot.
ACORN dot
etc etc etc etc etc etc
Wallah! now you have an entire portrait of our financial collapse in the lap of democrats and anti American radicals.
I've read that McCain doesn't want to use the Fannie Mae route because it will cast him as a racist.
HELLO!!!!! John, you became a racist the day you accepted a nomination to run against The Messiah.
Once again, McCain needs to decide A) Be a nice guy and be a loser B) Kick ass and be president. It's really that easy.
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