Thanks for a little sanity on this thread. Sheesh...
1. McCain's been through a tough two weeks, the MSM has tried hard to pin the blame on him for the economic bad news that has been pouring out like never before. Yes, he voted for the bailout, but it might well have been to neutralize Barry on the issue, since he voted for it, too.
There's still a decent possibility that it will fail in the House, and then it will look like "good cop, bad cop". Even if the legislation passes, it will be better than the Rats would have written on their own, because President Bush was willing to sign ANYTHING at this point, even if it had ACORN in it. By slowing down the process, John McCain can rightfully take credit for that.
2. Sarah Palin's had a really tough two weeks, as well. She's been off the campaign trail for significant periods of time while preparing for both the debate, and for the 'gotcha' interviews that she's had to give. The MSM is only too happy to run the worst parts of those interviews over and over, they've never cited a single thing she's said when being interviewed by Sean Hannity. In the last two weeks, the very sharpest knives have come out against her, the libs are scared to death of her even more than Barry frightens us. We know that he will be a bumbler if he ever got the job of President, and they know she has a natural constituency that can be motivated to support her stands on issues even if she is only the VP.
When this debate is over, and she comes up better than the low expectations that the mushy middle have been taught to have for her, she'll be back on the campaign trail, drawing huge audiences who will respond just to defeat the media's character assassination of her.
3. Rezko is singing like a bird, even if he doesn't mention Obama, the governor is going down in Illinois, and that will focus attention on the cesspool that Barry was steeped in for his political training. The contrast with Sarah Palin's taking on Republican politicians in Alaska (the Ted Stevens case will be news, as well) will be striking.
4. We still have a month to attack, there is no reason to bring much of what we have until the mushy middle is focused firmly on the election. The Swift Boat heroes didn't fire until they saw the whites of John Kerry's eyes, I'll give McCain credit about knowing when to shoot at a target when you have a limited window to hit your objective.
5. We are conservatives because we put our faith in the people of our country, not our government, its institutions, or even its elected officials. They have been unpolled by organizations that know how to avoid calling them, they don't make a lot of noise when they worry about aligning themselves with a candidate that they're being told is stupid, but they fear the kind of people that Obama would bring into power. They will carry the day for this country. They haven't been fooled by a Northern liberal since 1960.