So, I’m noticing some trends lately.  First, let me clarify this, I primarily watch the local NBC station.  I don’t watch it for fantastic journalism, or high quality programming; however, the few shows I do watch mostly fall on NBC.  Keep that in mind as I explain my trending.  I see at least 5 McCain ads per day that I watch television.  I MAY see one Obama ad.  I have a couple theories on this.

1 – The Obama campaign has no idea what to do with the Palin pick.  Politics is strategy.  To keep an old cliche alive, I’ll compare it to chess.  A chess player knows how the pieces move and can see his options on the table.  A good chess player knows a few combinations of moves or traps, and can identify when an opportunity to lay one arises.  Finally, great chess players plan out in excess of ten moves in advance.  They have a strong idea of what their opponent is likely to do and plan far enough ahead to exploit their opponent.

The Obama campaign is a good chess player aspiring for greatness.  They thought they had the McCain campaign figured out, and had planned September and October ads and activities to combat Romney, Pawlenty, or Lieberman.  Now they are scrambling, they have castled, and have sent the knights out(Go Hillary!) to buy time to rethink this strategy.  They let the pawns (bloggers and media) take pot-shots at the other player’s defense and sacrifice them to the proverbial ‘bus’ whenever they go to far.  The problem is that knights always move in a crooked line, and pawns have limited influence.  Hillary’s enthusiasm ranks up there with Ben Stein and her carefully worded support for Obama is overshadowed by supporting herself for 2012.

The McCain campaign has, on the other hand, been on top of Team BO from round one.  They baited Obama with accusations of inexperience and convinced even him that he didn’t have the foreign policy know-how to accomplish the job in Washington.  So, Dr. Changehope picks from the honor-guard of white-haired white guys.  He undermined his whole approach to a “new kind of politics.”  Then McCain grooms two cookie cutter Republicans and one ex-Democrat for a potential “old-hat” VP pick.  Barry and Joe take the bait and then get hammered when McCain pulls out the Queen to put them in check.

They’re on the run.

2 – The next reason I can think of, plays into the pawn-philosophy from point 1.  They are allowing the pawns in the blogosphere and their bishop/rook journalists to probe the lines of acceptability with ridiculous and often baseless attacks.  They’re trying to gauge opinion and find an avenue of attack that works without losing too much face. 

But they’re playing against the clock now.

3 – Their own strategy has come back to bite them, hard.  Remember the incessant hum-dum coming from the Obama camp about racism and “character over color?”  They had the minority-ploy locked down.  In light of the fact that the McCain campaign has never had an overtly racist message (and only wacky, “uppity” people can find covert ones) the Obama campaign has routinely insisted that the racist attacks will come. 

Here’s a message for you racists out there masquerading as activists.  If you spend all day looking for a message in what people say, you will eventually mime that very message with your own bumbling idiocy.  It’s evident.  You write what you read, you speak what you hear.  If all you hear is slanderous, venemous bigotry(even if it’s in your own head) guess what’s going to come out?

The Obama camp can’t think of a single way to attack Palin without sounding like a bunch of sexist man-monsters.  Obama probably weeps daily over his choice of Biden; the guy practically exudes political incorrectness.  I was going to write a witty line about what Biden might do, but that’s what they have done and I’ve criticized them for it, so I will refrain.

Let me help the Obama campaign with some fantastic advice, and this includes the mass of blabbering journalists and bloggers who have been sucked into the vacuum of BO’s platform.  Focus on Policy over plumbing.  Stop referring to Palin as a cheerleader for McCain.  Stop calling her “hot.”  Candidates’ attractiveness is often a topic on the campaign trail (I remember the level of symmetry on Bill Clinton’s face being the subject of a news story) but male candidates are referred to as “attractive,” not “hot.”  Never EVER EVER refer to a candidate’s” doability, moron.

I’m trying to help you guys out since you’ve been outgunned going into the final two months.  You have all these journalists and bloggers at your disposal; you should hand out a “how not to look like a bigot” pamphlet to them.  You are the experts on the whole bigotry subject, after all.

One final tip.  Don’t try to play the moral high-road on social issues against a conservative base who feels they have a strangle-hold on morality.  Christians tend to admit their own failings, but one thing they continually strive for is atonement.  It takes time, it takes prayer, it takes humility, but it’s truth.  Christians don’t LIKE to offend people.  You people keep forgetting the root word of that venemous group of serpents(in your eyes): Evangelicals.  In case you are missing it: Evangelic, which means belonging to or contained in the gospel. 

Let me rant for a second.  The gospels speak of acceptance, forgiveness, and servitude.  Evangelism means bringing people to Christ.  Evangelism doesn’t mean condemning the world as evil sinners and hoping they burn in hell.   Evangelicals realize that people make mistakes, they fight against policies that lead people to sin.  Read the gospels, Jesus says that people who lead people to sin are worse than the sinners.  Sure, we have a few kooks who didn’t get the memo.  However, I don’t recall hearing about any christian groups dropping bags of cement from overpasses during the RNC or the DNC.  I don’t recall hearing about christian groups breaking windows or throwing rocks at police during the RNC or DNC either. 

Both sides have their whackos.  Back on topic: don’t try to out-moral people who believe they are moral.  Your attempts appear petty, and you’ve never had a good lock-down on the morality approach.  You have no qualms about aborting over one million babies annually, but you condemn conservative leaders for troops dying in a war.  By the way, that war has improved the lives of millions of Iraqis.  Again, your message is hollow.  Social justice can never trump religious morality.  social justice is made of man, and acted out by man: imperfect.  Religious morality comes from something more than man (no matter the religion, this is why terrorists will kill themselves to spread their message) and will always hold higher power than social justice.

I’m not arguing against social justice, I’m just saying you should stop going toe to toe with an opponent you can’t beat.  You would have to completely and finally disprove God.  Good luck.  We can’t even completely and finally disprove dark matter, or gravity waves.  We have more empirical evidence of God than either of these.

After going way off topic, let me summarize.  Don’t try to discredit through gender.  You are perpetually disproving your own “high-road” stance from earlier in the election.  Fight on grounds of policy, and see what Americans really think is best for our country.

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