I like to get fired up in the morning so I watch Morning Joe to see Mr. Scarborough bob and weave as best he can to get the conservative talking points hammered home all while claiming to be impartial. It's a good time.
Joe and crew were yammering on about who started the negativity and it occurred to me that this is a perfect way to tied McCain to a loaded question.
All Obama and his spokespeople have to do is this...
Repeat again and again,
"I'm surprised by the negative tone of John's campaign. He said very clearly that this campaign was going to be different and it was at first. Then it seems like something changed. He's got some of Karl Rove's guys working for him now I'm told. I wonder if they have anything to do with it? Now, John is an honorable guy, I don't think he's behind this strategy. Heck, maybe he isn't even aware what these new Rove guys are doing. From what he said before the campaign started, he must not know. I'm sure he'll raise the level of discourse back to the issues like he said his campaign would be run once he realizes how negative and misleading the ads run on his behalf have become. I hope he'll take back control of his campaign so we can talk reasonably about how to solve this country's problems."
If they can get that into the Media's collective consciousness so it gets enough airplay McCain must either admit he's signed off on the gutter politics and agrees with all they imply and that he's broken his promise to not run a negative campaign, or admit he is not in control of his own campaign.
Win for Obama.
Maybe someone can hone this general idea, but I think it'd be good to force McCain to embrace Rovian politics or admit he can't even manage his own campaign.