They’re paying attention now

In today’s Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan, in an opinion piece entitled “They’re paying attention now” explains why John McCain has suddenly surged ahead of Barack Obama in the polls;

There are many answers, but here I think is an essential one: The American people have begun paying attention.

Despite the year-and-a-half of the media showing us snippets of Obama from his carefully scripted and directed speeches, Americans really didn’t care – certainly not as much as the rest of us who tear apart every word spoken by any politician.

Ms. Noonan boils down the whole Democrat vs. Republican debate to a paragraph;

During the primary campaigns Republicans were always saying, “This is what I’ll do.” Mr. Obama has a greater tendency to say, “This is how we’ll feel.” Republicans talk to their base with, “If we pass this bill, which the Democrats irresponsibly oppose, we’ll solve this problem.” Democrats are more inclined toward, “If we bring a new attitude of hopefulness and respect for the world, we’ll make the seas higher and the fish more numerous.”

Yeah, that stuff worked fine among Democrats voting for Democrats, but I don’t think it’ll fly among Independents…and those folks that watch their paychecks dwindle because Democrats are more interested in how they feel rather than how food we get to eat.

I’m reminded of the MoveOn crowd I talked to a few weeks ago who are convinced that the world will end in fifty years (just for the record, they expected the world to end by the year 2000, too) unless we stop using oil and use some new, as yet undiscovered alternative fuel. So instead of drilling our own resources, becoming independent from Middle East oil barons and making that area less strategically important, they want us to remain dependent on that region while some magic fuel alternative is discovered…because it makes them feel good.

If I invented an alternate fuel source yesterday and developed a vehicle powered by this amazing new source this morning, how long would it be before everyone in the country had one as well as the infrastructure to produce enough of the fuel and distribute it through out the country? Oh, and no one could make any money from it (or we’d be the new “fat cats”). The Left acts like it’d take a week, maybe a month at the outside.

Mostly because no one on the Left knows how stuff works…they only know how they feel. And that’s where Democrats failed picking their candidates over the last forty years – the rest of us aren’t gullible or intellectually stunted. The rest of us can think for ourselves.

So, in the interest of the Fairness Doctrine, I offer as an opposing view of the world, Eugene Robinson, resident hack of the Washington Post who tries to counter his candiate’s fall in the polls by projecting the major weakness of Obama onto McCain in his intellectually vacant “Johnny, we hardly know ye“;

There’s a candidate in this presidential race who remains a mystery — hazy, undefined, so full of contradictions that voters may see electing him as an enormous risk. I’m referring to the cipher known as John McCain.

In fact, there are some basic things about McCain that apparently even McCain doesn’t know. Asked Wednesday by reporters from Politico how many houses he and his wealthy wife, Cindy, own, McCain responded, “I think — I’ll have my staff get to you.” The correct answer seems to be in the neighborhood of seven, but who’s counting?

I don’t begrudge McCain his multiple residences or his $520 Ferragamo shoes.

Yeah, sure you don’t Eugene. Then why’d you mention it? Noonan uses actual shortcomings to disparage Obama, while Robinson makes shit up. But, someone’ll call Noonan’s a hit piece, while Robinson brings up good valid questions we should be asking about McCain.

Uh-huh.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Economy, Foreign Policy, John McCain/Sarah Palin, Liberals suck, Media