Nancy has a good post up today at Conservative Insights. She starts off by explaining what McCain needs to do to win this debate, assuming the MSM will ever admit that Obama loses.
Tonight the candidates are going to face the voters and take questions directly, much like actors who finally must leave the stage and face the throng... it is important that McCain have a strong night tonight. Despite other defeatist conservative bloggers, I believe McCain has plenty of time to turn this election around and he can start by winning this debate. Many of my fellow conservative bloggers, I believe, will have egg on their face come Election Day. But I will get into the topic of disgraceful defeatism by bloggers in a moment, right now, here is what McCain needs to accomplish tonight:
Inflict Death By 10,000 Paper Cuts- McCain needs to sharply attack Obama tonight, but he must use wit to do it. In order to avoid being labeled as “mean” or “arrogant”, he needs to get the audience on his side. The best way for McCain to do this it to cut away at his opponent Barack Obama, not deeply, just often using sharp wit and attacks. The goal tonight should be to expose Obama, marginalize him, and make him look small. McCain must accomplish all of this with a smile, keeping the crowd and the audience at home on his side. This is no small task, but if he can master it, he will win this debate.
She then goes on to attack certain conservative bloggers for their defeatism.
On a quick final note, I have a message for some of the bigger conservative blogs, what happened to you? Success is something we all strive for, and I am happy for those conservative bloggers who have found that success. Many of my colleagues, however, have become sponges for the MSM spin of the day and allow the media’s bias to influence their blogs.
Instead of unique reporting, many bloggers are now posting polls followed by short frightened responses about how the sky is falling. It isn’t. I believe and have faith in the American people to choose wisely and that ultimately McCain will be elected. The fight isn’t over until November 5th, fellow bloggers, so stop waving the white flag prematurely.
While she doesn't call out anyone in particular, I have reason to believe that one of them is Ace from Ace os Spades. Note this comment from a much-read post there yesterday. (Language warning on the link.)
I agree the McCain camp has done quite a bit wrong, but not to sound like a member of the "happy talk brigade" I think the polls are garbage. They are oversampled with democrats and "independents" by an insane and irresponsible amount. There are things McCain can be doing better, but excuse me if I don't get myself in a curse laden panic. Have you seen Palin's crowds? Have you read the stories about life long democrats in Pennsylvania and Virginia who wont vote for Obama? No, you are taking the spoon fed doom and gloom bs from the media. Let me tell you something Ace, if a poll doesnt show Obama ahead in a state by 10 or more points, guess what, hes behind. Polls for Obama are ALWAYS higher then the votes he gets. Not to sound like the brigade, but excuse me for having some independent thought and thinking the conventional wisodom that has Obama way ahead is garbage.
Posted by: Nancy at October 06, 2008 06:31 PM
Personally, I agreed with what Ace was saying, if not the manner in which he said it. And at the same time I agree with Nancy's points. The two are not mutually exclusive. I have tried not to note the polls too often, and did the same when McCain was ahead, because to me polls are how the MSM attempts to suppress Republican voter turnout. At the same time, negative polls are news to some extent, so they do need to be noted. I fight the battle to stay optimistic everyday. Some days I do so successfully, other days, not so much.
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