As McCain huddles in Sedona with his Roveianite advisers the word the media is reporting:
McCain plans fiercer strategy against Obama.
GOP plans to focus on the Democrat's judgment, honesty and personal ties
Will this strategy work? In a word - NO!
With just a month to go until Election Day, McCain's team has decided that its emphasis on the senator's biography as a war hero, experienced lawmaker and straight-talking maverick is insufficient to close a growing gap with Obama.
Focus on Judgement - Honesty and Personal Ties?
Let's look at them one by one:
Judgement: Barack Obama chose as his running mate Joe Biden. John McCain chose as his running mate Sarah Pailin. John McCain's campaign is erratically bouncing from one crisis to the next. Barack Obama's organization is running with precision, effectiveness that has never before been seen in a Presidential campaign. In contrast McCain's organization (excuse the oxymoron) has been a slow motion train wreck. "High drama" would be the best way to describe McCain's out of control campaign.
Obama is cool in a crisis. McCain has a hair trigger.
Honesty: Barack Obama is probably the most transparent politician to arrive on the scene in the last 200 years. He has written two best selling biographies. Note here: Obama wrote his books himself. McCain used a ghost writer. Obama has already survived the scrutiny of a protracted primary campaign against one of the most powerful political organizations ever. John McCain hides his medical records, his wife's tax returns and continually distorts his voting record.
Personal Ties: There are no personal ties that Obama has that have not been scrutinized and responded to (thank you Hillary!) Most of them are foolish anyway. McCain's personal ties are still a ticking time bomb. Phil Graham and the architects of this mess of an economy we find ourselves in. They are McCain's "personal ties" not Obama's.
But more than all that, going NEGATIVE will no longer work. America has seen the "leaders" brought to us by Atwater and Rove and their NEGATIVE campaigns and they are are SICK of it. America is HUNGRY for positive leaders and see that possibility with Barack Obama. All the Mud and Smears that McCain and his cronies are going to throw at Obama will in the old schoolyard saying ... Bounce off Obama and take McCain down.
Better take a hard look in the mirror John McCain before bringing up: Judgement, Honesty and Personal Ties.