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Originally Posted by I'm Rich Bitch  The Republicans will run on a platform of Jeremiah Wright. Nothing else will matter to them. No other issue will be explained. No policy issue, no innovative approaches, no mention of Iraq. |
McCain may not mention Wright, but he won't have to. He can let the media and the 527s and Hannity etc do that for him.
McCain himself will outright pummel Obama as a tax-and-spend Dukakis-style liberal. Obama has at least managed to avoid looking like a Kerry-style flip-flopper on most issues besides Wright, but he hasn't had to defend the weaknesses of his liberal stances in any debates. When he's arguing with Hillary over their health-care plan, the two of them agree on certain underlying things that McCain is going to make him defend.
McCain is going to argue that he was right all along on corn-based ethanol and that he was right all along on How To Win In Iraq and he's going to have evidence to back up both of those claims. He's going to demand any evidence from Obama whatsoever that Barack took a post-partisan stance on ANY difficult issue while in the Senate, while pointing to his own leadership in the Gang of 14.
Those are real issues that all play to McCain's strengths among independents and assault the core weaknesses of Obama.