Newt Gingrichhas a solid point here, one that I have made in the past. It is better to attack Barack Obama on his socialist policies than on anything else. He is so far left that most Americans won’t accept him. Newt concurs:
“It won’t work, it’s a mistake,” former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, appearing on CBS’s Face The Nation, said of the McCain campaign’s focus on Obama’s experience.
“The country may reject Senator Obama because of his relationship to Reverend Wright and his relationship to the hard left, to William Ayres, and because his policies include tax increases, and because there are some big decisions coming on energy, on education, on the court. And Senator Obama may turn out to represent a position so far to the left, the country won’t tolerate it.”
Gingrich discounted McCain’s recent protests that Obama is not ready for the job: “Obama is a very articulate, very intelligent, Harvard law graduate, who is extraordinarily smart, and he’s not going to come across in a debate like some guy who’s dopey. He’s going to come across as fully-prepared. He knows how to study all this stuff. He has the military advisers.”
This is solid advice, which it seems is exactly the type of thing John McCain ignores. I wouldn’t look for the McCain campaign to switch gears on this anytime soon.
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