I’ve just joined RedState. This is my first blogpost. I’m a moderate conservative with an interest in political strategy, and I think I’ve got a plan for McCain. Please go easy on me, I’d love to hear your thoughts!

I think the only way McCain can grab back any significant points is something like this. Using Wright and ‘Clinging to Guns and Religion’ to present Obama as out of touch with American social/cultural values; using Obama’s alleged higher taxes (particularly in a time of recession, and focusing particularly on capital gains) and McCain’s alleged foresight on Fannie and Freddie in the past, as proof that Obama is out of touch on economic values; throw in some ‘most liberal senator’, ‘elitist’, and – riskily – ‘exotic’ and ‘unordinary’ (that is Hawaii, Chicago politics, Ivy League, Beltway etc), and you’ve got a narrative that Obama is an out of touch elitist with questionable friends and liberal views, from taxes to guns.

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