DRILL, BABY, DRILL!

With eight weeks to go until Election Day, McCain-Palin supporters need to get out the message and drill it home to the American voter: Barack Obama is an empty promise of change while John McCain brings experience in service of reform, backed up by a record of service that courageously puts country first, and principle above partisan politics. For all his lofty rhetoric promising "change you can believe in," Barack Obama has written two memoirs, but not a single piece of major legistlation, while McCain's senate record -- which includes campaign finance reform, fighting against pork barrel spending, taking on the tobacco industry, never accepting earmarks, HMO reform, climate change, immigration reform -- provides an outstanding contrast against the Obama record, which consists exclusively of pretty speeches and false claims.

Barack Obama gets the most traction out of presenting a fase dichotomy against John McCain. Obama cannot run against the real McCain record, because McCain is the real McCoy and Barack is just bereft of ideas. So, Obama presents a straw man argument: he says McCain wants to stay in Iraq for a 100 years, and pretends that his distortion really is McCain's position. He has done this again and again, and the media refuses to call him on it. We saw this when John McCain joked that he would define rich as making over five million dollars, immediately predicting that the joke would be distorted. Despite the fact that John McCain made it clear that it was a joke, Obama went on to campaign on the basis that it was McCain's actual position, saying that it proved McCain was "out of touch" with the economic reality. Most recently, Obama has distorted a statement by McCain's campaign manager on the dynamics of the campaign, falsely paraphrasing Rick Davis as saying that the campaign would be about personalities and not the issues, then running against the false interpretation of his actual words. That's Obama: a sham, a mirage, a distortion.

This blog will drill home that point, calling out the falsehoods being put out by the Obama campaign and pointing to the 900 pound gorilla in this election: McCain's long-standing "maverick" rep, Gov. Palin's undeniable role as a change agent the likes of which has not been seen in Washington in many years, and the restoration of the Republican brand to its Grand Old roots laid down by Honest Abe, T.R., and the Gipper. We will drill that message home day in and day out, week in and week out, and expose the smoke and mirrors offered by the other side. We're going to drill till we drop: drill, baby, drill!