Someone has to hold Barack Obama accountable, and if McCain doesn't do it this election is going to slip through his fingers.
Tonight we're due for our second Presidential debate, this time in a "townhall" format with the venerable Tom Brokaw moderating. It's John McCain's preferred format - he's better with the honest ad lib and the quick retort than he is with a set speech - and it's only 30 days out from election day. It seems like a critical moment of decision for the McCain campaign, and discouraged conservatives are shouting that it's time for McCain to "take the gloves off" and take the fight to the enemy, leaving Obama bloodied and broken. If such an outcome is possible and if the McCain campaign has any hope of victory, this seems to be the most opportune time to hit Obama and hit him as hard as possible.…
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226 - Cindy D
For posterity, I think it's worth it to put Bobby Kennedy Jr.'s words here:
Governor Palin's Reading List
Fascist writer Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist who Sarah Palin approvingly quoted in her acceptance speech for the moral superiority of small town values, expressed his fervent hope about my father, Robert F. Kennedy, as he contemplated his own run for the presidency in 1965, that "some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies."
It might be worth asking Governor Palin for a tally of the other favorites from her reading list.
227 - bliffle
"Will McCain Take the Gloves Off Tonight?"
Answer: McCain never had gloves on. He's always been bare-knuckle. The problem with McCain is that he has no punch. Even when he has a good punch available he pulls it, as he did in the confrontation with W in 2000 after the SC primary.
He's confused and uncertain. He has no policy. He is consumed by the notion that if he just has all the power he wants that he'll do The Right Thing. But he won't.