[TennTuxedo]

On the other hand, if McCain calls him on his distortion, he can do grave damage to Obama on three fronts: credibility, centrism, and experience. By catching Obama in a lie, he can undermine the effectiveness of any subsequent ads the Democrat runs. By showing that he opposed welfare reform, McCain can do much to force Obama back to the left and cast doubt on his efforts to move to the middle. And by emphasizing Obama's limited experience, he can strike at a soft spot --- made softer by Hillary's attacks in the primary.

The move is right there for McCain. Now lets see how good his campaign really is.

[Red_Devil 232]

I wont be holding my breath!

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

And they said Fred Thompson was an anemic campaigner. Where's John McCain? What's this "if he responds?"
How did this happen??

[Carley]

Lot of good all that money down the tubes did for Osama, er Obama, in Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania and assorted other places at the end of the dum primaries.

[ken21]

if mccain would just focus.

focus for example on the price of gasoline and remind people

that dems won’t drill for oil.

nancy pelosi: “oil makes us sick”. b.s.

[ken21]

if mccain picked a female vp,

he’d get the hillary dissidents.

[Mr. Mojo]

How McCain responds and whether or not he does....

B-HO has given him plenty of ammo, that's for sure. He just needs to use it.

[Dems_R_Losers]

Eh. I saw the Obama ad last night and it did nothing for me. McCain has been running ads in Pennsylvania for weeks. McCain is being smarter with his money and running ads in the battleground states where it matters, and on cable channels where he can reach his targeted audience. Obama is wastng his money on national TV ads in the dead of summer when nobody watches TV.

[TomGuy]

The move is right there for McCain. Now lets see how good his campaign really is.

Apparently, McCain isn't ready for prime time, yet.

The campaign of 2008 started on July 1 when Obama launched his first national advertising buy of the season.

It is now July 7. A week has gone by. If Team McCain is going to leave that much time before countering, his counters will have little-to-no effect.

For this one, anything now would be too-little-too-late. This opportunity has passed. Maybe Team McCain will be awake by the time of the next one.

[shortstop]

I sent this article to Bill Adair of the St. Pete Times, who runs the Political Fact Checking column, which may run nation-wide. I asked him to review the column and report his findings in his column. I told him I’ll be watching to see how “neutral” his column is. If he prints it, I’ll post it on FR.

[prairiebreeze]

Most average people won’t even be paying attention until after Labor Day. Until then, this is just one more breathless “analytical prediction” from Morris and McGunn.