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Democrats Nervous that John McCain Might Give Them a Fight

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 6th, 2008 at 05:35 AM  | 

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The Democrats are like Israelites. The Israelites wandered through the desert seeing great miracles of God. Nonetheless, when the Israelites made it to the promised land, they were fearful of the Canaanites and wanted to flee. God punished them.

The Democrats have wandered in the Presidential political wilderness for a long time. Yet Obama has shown them great wonders. He beat the Clintons. He brought in young people in a way we haven’t seen since Bobby Kennedy. He, a black man, enraptured a horde of blond Germans in Berlin.

Yet they now doubt.

Democrats are increasingly worried Barack Obama is not hitting back hard enough against rival John McCain and missing opportunities to tie the Republican candidate to the Bush administration.

The Arizona senator garnered his best reviews in some time last week after weeks of being drowned out by the intense media spotlight surrounding Obama.

McCain seemed to find his voice with the launch of two campaign ads, which received mixed reviews but helped him break through the media clutter and target the Illinois senator on the issue of offshore drilling.

Why is Obama unable to throw a hard punch? Maybe because McCain’s position today is Obama’s position tomorrow.

It’s really hard to throw a punch when you’re going to knock yourself in the face.

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  • bk

    That 2nd ad last week was timely – Didn’t Moses lead his people to the promised land but never quite make it himself?

  • streetwise

    The general election is not the Democratic nominating process, which Obama played like a master violinist.

    In the general, the voters want the candidates to show them their stuff. Obama is showing them an empty suit.

    The voters realize how dangerous this world can be. John McCain offers a pair of steady hands ready to take those 3AM phone calls. And the voters know it!

  • Erick

    That’s just a code word you dirty racist.

    ;)

  • Moe_Lane

    He’s slow to react to changes in the news cycle, his ability to speak from the heart is exaggerated, and he’s apparently never been called on even elementary rookie mistakes before, which is why he keeps making them.

    His major advantage? He’s got a ferocious money machine… which is mostly going to keep a lot of Democratic Party staffers paid, health-cared, and busy doing ever-so-vital jobs – like, say, finding the last six Democrats in Idaho and setting up a breeding program.

  • itdiehard

    I would like to see an added with the batman character ?Two Face? talking about change.. Two Face could state “I don’t support oil drill” with a camera shoot of his left side followed with a camera shot of Two Face right side then stating “I supports oil drill”. This could be done a host of Oboma issues. And then see how the lefties go nuts…

  • itdiehard

    Web browser hung and tried repost a few times…

  • bk

    Obama’s approach is to talk about McSame, third Bush term, etc. when he manages to find time to talk about something other claiming McCain does nothing but talk about Obama. (It’s all about me?)

    Anyway, this strategy is doomed to failure with the average Joe. Why? Well for once we can thank our friends in the MSM! In the past 8 years they gave McCain tons of air time every time he disagreed with Bush and ignored him when he agreed with Bush. So all the average person has seen of McCain for 8 years is that it seemed like he ALWAYS disagreed with Bush, so how is Obama now going to convince them McCain is Bush’s clone? It ain’t gonna fly….

  • Dave_in_Fla

    I didn’t see Obama play that thing like a master. I saw him limp across the goal line, after the refs awarded him an extra 10 yards.

  • GaryCook

    75% of the American people favor domestic drilling.

    So does John McCain.

    Senator Obama opposes new drilling.

    Is Senator Obama telling 75% of the American people they are wrong?

  • bk

    that a year ago, everyone figured the nomination was Hillary’s and the primaries were just a formality. Instead she was too cocky and ran a horrible campaign, while Obama figured out how the game worked and kicked Hillary’s butt in early caucuses (cauci?). Once the press decided he was the winner it didn’t matter that Hillary won almost all the primaries the last couple months – it was too late.

    So while he barely won, he did win. And it was a win that no one could have possibly predicted when this all started.

    So maybe the master violinist analogy is a bit strange, but he certainly knew how to play the strings of the Democratic nomination instrument.

  • Erick

    I deleted the duplicates without comments to them. And great idea!

  • streetwise

    He told the money-laden lefty netroots exactly what they wanted to hear, got them to mobilize against Hillary (especially in the vote-thin but delegate rich caucus states), took advantage of the proportional representation in the large primary states (even when Hillary won, she hardly got more delegates than he did), and played the race card skillfully enough to guilt the superdelegates to put him over the top.

  • Moe_Lane

    Or “power gaming:” and neither term is meant to be complimentary. Major reason why Obama spent July spinning his wheels.

  • streetwise

    Exposed at last. Damn!

  • Dan_McLaughlin

    is that Obama is the golden calf.