Jude 2

This is a question for those of you who, like me, will vote McCain/Palin, but see the campaign floundering. Do you think the campaign has jumped the shark? If so, when/how?

I don't think so. Where did you see a fin in the water? Nominating a woman?

I do think they jumped the shark and it happened far faster than I was expecting. I was hoping that the Palin choice would really fire things up for many weeks, but that excitement has appeared to wane quite a bit in the last week or two. I hate to say it, but maybe showing up on SNL with Tina Fey will kick it back up again.

Nothing helps an election more than showing up on Entertainment Tonight instead of CNN for a few days.

Here's my take on the wane of McCain. "Reaching across the aisle" is unattractive and/or offensive to real Republicans. Be a Republican, please.

You NEVER hear Obama talk about reaching across the aisle. He portrays himself above that.

Be aggressive with the association angle. Every time Obama associates McCain with Bush, McCain should associate Obama with the Clintons. Far fetched? I don't think so. Names should be named regarding those responsible for the current economic crisis. Name the root cause.

In other words, stop being Mr. Nice Guy who wants to appeal to everyone. It's impossible. I'd love to hear, just once, "Here's what I stand for. Take or leave it." And an occasional reference to faith in a higher power would be greatly appreciated.

Finally, it's imperative that Palin be unleashed.

NewsFlash: McCain was always going to lose.. EXCEPT when he made the choice of Palin. That changed the entire dynamic.

NOW the media is attempting to TELL you what to believe (and many are falling for it ) and that Palin is ineffective or lost her appeal to base and that's just NONSENSE.

She is pulling in THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS at the rallies and the media just isn't reporting this. She has been unleashed and the pit bull is coming out. Her VP debate pulled tons more viewers than the last PRESIDENTIAL debate. She is the key.

The ONLY chance McCain has is Palin and her unleashed. It's a huge shame.. but it's the truth. McCain believes the race will be won in the moderates and that is whom he is reaching out to. This is what he has always done and will always do. So don't get frustrated when he continues to do this.

All I can say.. is go Sa RAH, Sa RAH. Cheer this woman on!!

Seriously... if McCain loses.. we owe her a huge debt of gratitude for even giving us a fighting chance.

This election is one I have seriously prayed about. I was not onboard with McCain until he piced Gov. Palin.

She will be the one who pulls it out, if they win. Obama knows this. At his rally yesterday in Indiana he had a bunch of white women right behind him. He knows that he has to defeat Palin. Obama's campaign is drooling and hoping for this investigative report to be released Friday that it implicates her. (Not this investigation is going to be truthful, thanks to French who is ready to nail her to a coffin)

Palin needs to come out swinging and by all means so does McCain.

KB

Obama is just doing the old "rope a dope" tactic right now.....but it will bite him soon.

He is not answering questions. He is avoiding giving any straight answers to interviewers. Even Bill O'Reilly is mesmerized by him. Stinks.....no that is his plane.....

The real Obama has not been seen so far. He will fail....just you watch.

McCain needs to (in the last debate) just ignore Bob Schiefer and do whatever he wants. It's his last opportunity. He needs to say.....okay I know you have some preconcieved notion how this should go. but here is what I am GOING to talk about....like it or not.

He needs to grab them both by the neck and go for the jugler. I have been in many debates in HS and God know s how many as a pastor....LOL

You finally have to go for it all and leave it all laying on the floor in a puddle of blood.

The problem is .....if McCain does that, he will add fuel to the fire of "he is an eratic old man"......if he doesn't then he is seen as " just not up to the task....he is old"

So, he needs to say.....guess what....this is my last hurrah!!! Here it all is ....right here ....right now....." Hey Zero, you are going to answer this question for the nation right now"

But then I get a little passionate about these things.

All this nicey-nice stuff McCain has done in the name of being honorable ... and now he's going to tepidly try and use it. I don't blame McCain so much as I do his advisers for this. I think McCain could have been convinced to be far more aggressive much sooner, and certainly more strategically so, with better handlers. But, the buck stops with him.

I'm going to hope that enough Americans have not lost their minds enough that they will, however reluctantly, vote for McCain in order to bail us out of an Obama term. (Note, I use the word "term" instead of "presidency" because he won't actually "preside" over anything. He doesn't have sense enough. But the people surrounding him do, and it's all bad.)