Stop the Voting - It's Over

I guess they can stop all the voter fraud in Ohio because all they're doing is padding the margin. Chuck Todd thinks it's pretty much over:

SIREN -- THE NARRATIVE IS ON FIRE – NBC NEWS POLITICAL DIRECTOR CHUCK TODD SOUNDS THE ALARM ON MSNBC’S “MORNING JOE”: “All the trend lines are pointing in Obama’s direction …. [Pointing to a series of battleground-state polls] This should really scare the McCain campaign. This thing -- it’s at a tipping point. And this debate, frankly, is coming at GOOD time for McCain because he needs something – anything – to stop this Obama momentum. … The pressure is all on Sarah Palin, not just for her own persona, but to SAVE THE McCAIN CAMPAIGN. … I think Virginia, frankly, is a trailing indicator of the national numbers. … John McCain is campaigning in Missouri later this week. That’s not a good sign. You shouldn’t have to be worrying about Missouri at this point.”

I agree that McCain needs something good to happen, but he's had opportunity after opportunity to hit hard against the Democrats and he keeps trying to run a "bipartisan" campaign. Unfortunately, this year's voters aren't interested in bipartisanship or else they would have rejected Obama long ago.

McCain has got to start making the argument that we should not elect Democrats because they're incompetent and often dishonest. He has ample evidence just from recent hearings in the mortgage fiasco in which Democrat after Democrat defended the crooks running Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and crucified the regulators who tried to rein them in. Has he used that information? No. He has instead made Republicans equally liable.

Unfortunately, his ace-in-the-hole, Sarah Palin, has proved to be disappointing. She simply hasn't performed well in her big-time media interviews. I don't know if it's because she's been overcoached and her personal style has been stifled, or if she's just not up to the job. We may know more after tonight. She needs a decisive win to try and offset some of the negative press she's gotten in the last couple of weeks. Anything less and her impact on the campaign may be negligible. If this race is left solely up to McCain, he'll lose...badly.

McCain has tried so hard to be "above-the-fray" that he's forgotten that he's in a fight for America's future. Is it really so important to be noble that it's worth turning the country over to a socialist president and a socialist Congress? Is America so desperate for "change" that they'll give the country's top job to a man we really know very little about because he's done such a good job of hiding his past? That's where we're headed and for thinking people, it's maddening.

It's not over with 4 1/2 weeks left to go, but both McCain and Palin have to step it up.