Hit 'em back where it hurts.  Keating 5.  Come on, Obama campaign, let's see some vicious Keating 5 ads in OH, PA and FL.  Fight fire with fire.  Link the K5 to the current financial collapse.

GOOD! Polls I've seen say that around 48% of people voting for Obama have made up their minds. All that this full-court press of attacks on Obama will do is just take the people who already aren't voting for McCain and remind them why.

Good thing, too, because the whole socialist thing was starting to take hold a little. They'll keep pushing it until Election day and will beat that one into the ground, too.

But I have been saying this for the last two months: The Rev Wright ads run the last week only, no time for a long term backlash, no time for McCain and Palin to be hounded about them.

This again proves the point of the diary I wrote, that McCain's legacy WILL be that of perhaps the last of the Republican Race-Baiters, joining the WIlly Horton Ad and all the code words from State Rights to Caddilac Drivin Welfare Mothers from Nixon uptill now.

Didn't that poor demented child Ashley Todd wake them up?  

Do they really want the blood on their hands if this is how they chose to win?

How do you lead a country, when you sold you soul to get there.

The longest serving Republican Senator is now a convicted felon.

But, Rev Wright, THAT'S THE KEY to it all.

Republicans are so pathetic, there is not even a level for them to sink below anymore.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/100 8/14988.html

Must be some Sarah Palin fans, eh?

(yeah, come beat me up for going over the top...then go watch the tapes of her rallies and tell me I'm over the top again...)

This will backfire.

The reason Swiftboating Kerry worked is that people either didn't really know anything about him or they already had their minds made up that they didn't like him but had no reason not to.  Basically, Karl Rove gave these people a justification for their blind aversion.  This country was a very different place in 2004.  

There was a sizable chunk of the population that wanted to believe George Bush.  I'm not going to pretend to know why they supported him, but they did.  People basically still liked or at least wanted to believe the Republicans and they were literally looking for an excuse to vote against Kerry.

This year is totally different.  People either know too much about Obama at this point or at least are comfortable thinking about him being the President.  I realize McCain's base doesn't like Obama and maybe this is just a way of getting the base to turn out in hopes of cutting the losses.  But overall, this isn't going to change people's minds the way it did in 2004.

In some ways, this was the brilliance of Karl Rove.  He knew how to attack people in a way that the population sorta wanted them to be attacked, but didn't want to be the first ones to say it.  Karl Rove also got very lucky to have a decent Republican tailwind in those years.

People don't care about Jeremiah Wright this year.  They like Obama and they'll recoil at the thought of someone dredging up this crap again.

people who were affected by the Wright revelation are already not voting for Obama. This late into the game, and with the economy in the crapper, I don't know that it will change much.

Muthee

Those in glass houses.....