Well, after beating McCain down again, completing the democratic sweep of all four debates, I am going to use my daily diary celebrating the fact that we are now, officially, in the dead girl / live boy / massive terrorist attack time. McCain can't come back any more. There are no game changers his campaign can come up with. There are no Hail Mary's that will work. And it feels so good.
I think McCain's biggest problem in all three debates is that he's been around the media so much, and for the last ten years has been 'everyone's favorite Republican senator', at least in their minds, that he didn't let it sink in that Obama is more popular than him. Not on just a fad level, which is what he thought of Obama earlier in the summer with his Paris Hilton ads. McCain thought Obama was a fad, but Obama is just a far more popular, respected, and well liked politician than McCain is. And he doesn't know how to deal with that.
I watched many of the GOP primary debates this year, and McCain was the same way towards his GOP opponents as he was towards Obama. And you know what? It worked. He rolled his eyes and huffed and hawed and looked down with contempt at Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani, and Ron Paul (Thompson was his wing man most of the time). And he won debates. But that was because he was far more popular than the guys on stage with him. Now his act looks terrible.
So, now that we are in the last stages with nothing left for McCain to do, I expect while waiting for Obama to be caught with live boy/dead girl or a city to be lost to terrorism, McCain will continue to try and discredit what will be a huge and historic win for Obama by pressing the ACORN crap. He needs to pass the blame for getting blown out on to someone else. Bush is obviously the first scapegoat, but fellow Republicans will be ripping his campaign too. So he needs someone to blame for how his campaign spiraled downward. He can't blame Palin, because he picked Palin. That would boomerang back on him. So I think he'll blame evil phantom black people voting more than they should. The wingnuts will swallow that one whole.
Thoughts?