At this point, the day of the Vice Presidential debate, Barak Obama is surging in both the national tracking polls and the battleground state polls. What will it take for McCain to regain the momentum, and squeak out a win come November 4th? Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, guys and gals, I have come up with the winning formula. The final frontier. The show of shows. The shootout at the OK corral. It is, in my humble opinion, a brilliant stroke. Now if I can only get the McCain camp to buy into the straterey...
McCain needs to focus all his energy, all his attention, all his precious remaining time on the biggest prize of all. Forget Michican, ain't gonna happen. Pennsylvania, fagetta 'bout it. Wisconsin, all the cheese in the state would not tip the scales. Minnesota, might as well go jump in one of it's 10,000 lakes. Ditto, Colorado, Iowa, New Mexico, Nevada and Florida. That leaves one choice and only one.
Brothers and sisters, McCain needs to flip CALIFORNIA! OK, call me crazy, call me irresistable, call me unreliable, but this could be McCain's finest moment, the hail Mary that actually gets caught in the end zone. Think about it. As Obama tries to tie up the rust belt and Virginia, McCain can boldly strike into the heart of the deep blue Pacific coast. A campaign and media blitz like no state has ever seen before! Imagine, McCain zigzaggin up and down the golden state like a crazed gazelle; packing four, five, six events a day into every city, every town, every hamlet.
This could be huge! A giant rally at the Jellybelly factory in Fairfield, where McCain could call on the ghost of St. Ronnie to deliver him the election. A press conference in front of his beachfront condo in LaJolla, where he could remind everyone just how much he has in common with the middle class. Honorary Grand Marshall at a gay rights parade in San Francisco. Surfing the curl at San Onfre with the nuclear power plant in the background. Chopping down a giant redwood in Kings Canyon! Picking lettuce for 50 bucks in hour in Salinas. Spending a few hours as a community organizer in Watts. And on election night, watching the returns from Scotties castle in Death Valley.
This is it. This is the gamechanger. This is the gimmick of all gimmicks, the lolipalooza of all political punches. Fifty five electoral votes. Who needs Florida, or Ohio for that matter? Virginia, who cares? And the beauty of this ploy? McCain may actually be crazy enough to go for it. Damn, where did I leave that Sedona phone book...