Analysis of Third Presidential Debate
Posted on October 16, 2008
Filed Under 2008 Presidential Debates, Barack Obama, Campaign 2008, John McCain |
Let’s get right to the point: John McCain cleaned The Sly Socialist’s Barack Hussein Obama’s clock. Period. End of story.
McCain came out surprisingly strong on the economy by making some good points. It wasn’t great but given what we’ve heard in the past from McCain on the economy, it was good.
McCain brought up John Lewis’ comments comparing Senator McCain to former Alabama Governor Georgia Wallace. He called Obama out for not repudiating Lewis’ comparison and Obama chose to initially dodge the question but Bob Schieffer brought it back up and Obama essentially dismissed the comments. He still didn’t condemn them.
He had Obama flustered most of the night, many times forcing Obama to retreat back to the standard liberal talking points.
In my estimation, McCain’s only real setback of the night came on the following question:
Not good. First he boasts about being part of the infamous “Gang of 14″ and then he proceeds to brag about voting for the most liberal Justices on the United States Supreme Court–former ACLU lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.
I wouldn’t be bringing those items up if I were Senator McCain. I know he thinks are those are great examples of his “reaching across the aisle” mentality but they just go to remind conservatives that he isn’t one.
Other than that, McCain was as good he’s been the entire campaign.
The challenge now for McCain going forward is to retain and build on this momentum he gained from this debate. This performance won’t mean anything if he comes at over the next few days and goes back to his passive, bipartisan approach.
He still has a lot of work to do, but from my perspective, he’s back in the game.
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