Contrary to a diary that I read here every couple of days, Obama isn't hammering McCain. Even today's comment about "pride in being ignorant" isn't going to harm McCain. Why? Because it's just a snarky comment that hardly anyone hears and doesn't resonate anyway. In order to not pull this punch, Obama would have to run some campaign ads not saying that Republicans take "pride in being ignorant," but that they are ignorant. Blatantly, unequivocally, call them out for being stupid. Maybe throw in a line about how Republican's can't even figure out how to lower gas prices... or keep them from quadrupling.
Even then, the ads wouldn't resonate because the GOP is not ignorant - and people know it. But people don't really know what they're up to.
Republican behavior is nothing short of atrocious. Literally - they are committing atrocities. Many atrocities all at once. On the domestic front they're trying to take our society to neofeudalism, and in foreign countries we're invading, killing, torturing, and stealing on a level that would inspire some of the worst tyrants in history. I think a lot of the problem we have in cutting into Republican popular support is that we go out of our way to be respectful to Republicans. It's hard to be respectful of Republicans and still get across your point about how awful they are.
You look like an idiot when you say:
Hey, this guy and this party lied us into a war that has cost us 4,000+ American lives, tens of thousands of American wounded, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives, and created millions of Iraqi refugees for real reasons that include stealing their oil and Bush's daddy issues. With all due respect.
There is no god damned due respect in a statement like that. Yet you still see senators and representatives from our side bantering about with their Republican colleagues. It shouldn't be this way. It should be all that our guys can do to show enough restraint not to jump over there and rip their god damned adam's apples out of their throats to stop the fucking lies. Instead our party doesn't just let them off the hook entirely for this, but we actually have assholes in our party who join in with the lies. WTF? Seriously, what the fuck? And they're not kicked out of the caucus by the leaders? WHAT, Reid voted FOR the war? Jesus H Christ. Why the fuck am I in this party, again?
But instead, Democrats show undue respect. And in turn, the American public doesn't believe the charges we claim because if they were true, we'd be a lot more pissed off.
At least that's my theory of the day...