According to our own Peter Lawler , McCain’s increasingly slim prospects depend not on going negative, as the Weekly Standard has suggested, but in making a strong case that he’s the most competent steward of our domestic agenda. He has real substantive advantages on central issues like health care, energy policy, abortion and judicial activism, and even the current economic crisis. If, as Lawler points out in characteristically astute fashion, McCain IS simply more competent on these issues then why has he clearly failed to communicate his superiority? Is the electoral tide, so hungry for frenetic, youthful, and therapeutically softened change, just too powerful for McCain to turn back? Or has Obama simply run a vastly superior political campaign?
