GOP insiders starting to get upset with McCain's "aimless" campaign

[Stranger in a strange land]

The election has been about Obama so far. If you look at this board on a given day, there will be 9 or 10 threads about Obama for every one about McCain. In fact, I'd wager that many low information voters don't even know who McCain is. If McCain has to run as the anti-Obama he's likely to lose for the same reason that Kerry lost running as the anti-Bush: you have to be FOR something; it's not enough to be AGAINST something.

[Stranger in a strange land]

McCain's campaign has stunk. McCain had a big chance to hit Obama on Wrightgate, Bittergate, his previous comments on Iran and now slumlordgate. However, he has allowed Obama to rebrand himself as a centrist. In the hands on a Morris or a Carville Slumlordgate alone would have sunk Obama - instead it has got next to no coverage. McCain has also allowed the Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney wing of the GOP to act like they won the primary.

I'm not too pessimistic because the fact that McCain is only 6% behind given his dismal campaign gives one hope for when his campaign does get its ass into gear but Rick Davis' ass should have been grass a long time ago.

Slumlordgate just another manufactured smear against Obama is it? I'm optimistic that the fearmongering, smearmongering tactics of the Right won't work in 2008

Dave

Hillary tried to bring up the Rezko scandal a number of times and it failed to excite the media or the public. If Americans don't care that Karl Rove gave away the name of a CIA agent, they won't care about or understand the Rezko scandal. It will be a non-issue because it doesn't involve oral sex.