The scurrying around on the left, to try and diagnose what's happened to the surging Barack Obama and fix it--is a sight to behold. As that reality sinks in that gasoline is $4 a gallon, that food costs at the supermarket are surging and that the Iraq War is being won, the public is seeing that Obama was wrong on all the major issues.
Obama's trying to scramble: admit that maybe the surge in Iraq did work, that maybe a little offshore drilling would be acceptable and that maybe that great environmentalist hype of ethanol from corn is driving food prices higher.
This undercuts the veracity of his whole campaign message to date. The public is finding out sooner, rather than later, that the old liberal bromides were wrong and that Obama is wrong on the major issues of the day.
Even the very minor moves by Obama to accept a little drilling, delay an Iraq pullout just a little bit--have driven the left into a frenzy, starting to feed on their own, crying the mantra that Obama is selling out.
I wish it could be said that this was the result of a brilliant McCain campaign, strategically boxing Obama in on the issues at just the right moment.
Rather, McCain is a beneficiary of good luck. There's no evidence that his campaign gets it either. He just happens to be in the right place at the right time. What happens in November will mainly be a matter of who falls apart the least.
The audacity of hope, and the maverick Republican the mass media loves--the tires are coming off both. Who will recover first?
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