I wrote earlier about how deep the despair of the Obama campaign must be for Obama himself to accuse publicly that McCain is a liar for calling himself a maverick. In short order, however, Senator Obama has gone even further. Tonight's Drudge Report carries a headline story in which Senator Obama, speaking of governor Palin says that you can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig. Wow!
So according to Senator Obama, Sarah Palin is a pig. Has he lost his mind? He can disagree with her policies, but to call her a pig is just nasty. Insults like that are not presidential and the public does not like them, no matter what the netroots crazies think. Does anyone remember 1992? At the end of the campaign President Bush was closing the gap quickly with Bill Clinton. Then, at a rally a few days before the election, President Bush called Clinton and Gore "bozos". The resulting upset quickly derailed the Bush momentum and Clinton won easily.
If there were a course called Campaigning 101, all of the recent Obama mistakes would be covered-- they are that obvious. One can only hope that they continue. If Obama is so upset by no longer being in the lead that he is melting down, we could see the makings of a major Republican landslide. If that happens, Senator will have no one to blame but himself.
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