To the writer, I disagree. Dangling Palin as bait highlights the issue of experience. It doesn’t diminish it. That issue has been front and center, until the financial crisis came along. The more the Dems and media flailed at her, the worse they looked. The more McCain responded with ads that got into Obama’s head, the more the Dems flailed. If the crisis hadn’t happened, McCain could’ve ridden that game all the way into the Whitehouse.
In a way, you’re right, but one can’t go at it directly. The truth is too simple compared to slick propaganda. If we had an honest media, then sure, that would work. As it is, it won’t, thus, the Palin lightning rod gambit.
The gambit today of “suspending the campaign to help solve the crisis” will be doing more of the same. The media can’t fail to show his actions. Even if it’s a push with Obama, it stops the bleeding and shows the experience. Again, indirect. It’s Jiu-Jitsu, not Karate.
The two things McCain has to learn is: that he doesn’t have to answer every question, nor respond to every attack; And to end his ads on a positive note (Obama’s a so-and-so, and I’m gonna do X.)
