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AFTER THE DEBATE –“SHE IS THE BRIGHT LIGHT IN THIS CAMPAIGN”! Mark Levin sums up the performance: “Governor Palin is a truly unique national figure. She is down to earth, personable, and smart as hell. That’s right. She has been on the national scene for a little over a month, she has been campaigning everywhere, she has had to bone up on all kinds of national issues, and she has shown class throughout.” Levin reminds us: “As for some of her populist views, she cannot openly campaign against the positions of her presidential running mate. She is the bright light in this campaign from my perspective.” Here is the Levin Post.

UPDATE OCTOBER 2! Andy McCarthy reports on NRO –  “I’m posting because it is indicative of the anger in lots of reader email I’m seeing: ‘Enough.  I don’t give a damn if the Fox media folk know Gwen and say she is a swell person.  I don’t care if McCain thinks the Dems in the Senate and congress are his ‘good friends’, they sure as hell aren’t my good friends.  In fact they work day in and day out to destroy all I hold dear, and tax me to pay for those in society who are too lazy and/or stupid to care for themselves….’” Read the complete McCarthy post here.

Dispiriting the base while risking the election?

We have written extensively about the White House’s indifference to conservative concerns - - most recently, about the wayward Republican Department of Justice’s plan to leave our polling places open to illegal voting next month here, and about some of the president’s expensive legacies here and here.

But senator McCain’s selection of governor Sarah Palin as his running mate brought energy and hope back to our conservative base.

Yet today, only a month from the election, many conservative voices are again losing confidence in the McCain Operation.

Peter Kirsanow writing on NRO “Ifill and Republican Wimps.”

“So many times  we see Republicans act ‘gentlemanly’ and turn the other cheek —to what end? It simply emboldens the media toward even greater bias. How does that serve the interests of the country? Democrat fingerprints are all over the current financial mess; Dodd and Frank were integral to the debacle, yet the GOP does nothing to counter the prevailing narrative that this is a  McCain—House Republican problem—and McCain’s poll numbers plummet.
 
The conclusion of McCain’s convention speech exhorting us to ‘fight, fight, fight’ has been quickly forgotten. There’s no honor in failing to challenge brazen media bias and distortion. It does the nation no good  when voters cast ballots based upon false or misleading information. Right now it looks as if the same politicians who engineered the Fannie Mae/ Freddie Mac train wreck are going to win in November. The most liberal candidate with the most radical associations of any presidential aspirant in history is poised to win because the media, with virtual GOP acquiescence, has portrayed that candidate as mainstream.
 
The GOP seems to depend on Rush Limbaugh to correct the record, and query where we’d be without him? But the GOP better start doing it’s job and forthrightly, aggressively challenge blatant media transgressions each and every time they occur. The economy’s at stake. Success in the war on terrorism is at stake. The Supreme Court is at stake. Do your duty. And part of that duty is not meekly surrendering to rank media bias.” (Underscoring Forum’s.)

Read the entire Kirsanow post here.

Patrick Ruffini in the Next Right “Is Palin Behind McCain’s Poll Drop?” declares –

“Short answer: No.
. . .

 So, to sum up, the most important impacts on recent polling were:

1. The Lehman/Merrill collapse (9/13-14)
2. The first debate and fallout (9/26-28)
3. The AIG bailout (9/18)

I don’t see Palin on the radar screen of any of this. And I’d trust these numbers more than I’d trust the op-ed elitists.”

Read the entire Ruffini post here.

“James Edmund Pennington” in the American Thinker “Is it slipping away?” urges –

“The last month has to be jacket off, fighting mad, Harry Truman and a communicated passionate desire to save our country.

If this doesn’t do it, McCain will have fought the good fight. If McCain doesn’t attempt this, and continues in his careful, polite mode, we will forever wonder whether the soldier who survived five years of torture could have brought it off, had the lion in winter possessed the eagerness for battle and the feistiness of his younger self.”

I am beginning to grieve for my country, for the West and for Israel. I hope it’s just my personal gloom. I fear it is not.” (Underscoring Forum’s.)

(”James Edmund Pennington is the pseudonym of a lawyer,” say the American Thinker.) Read the entire Pennington post here.

Yesterday, we cited Dick Morris’s article “There’s Still Time, John McCain.” Morris wrote:

“McCain needs to have the courage to free himself from the web of Washington deals and take a principled stand for the right side and stay there. Then the inevitable dynamics of the process will bring the country around to him. Otherwise, his campaign will have missed the opportunity to draw the kind of clear issue that would have gotten him elected president.

It is admirable to see a candidate of principle and conviction lose an election by standing on his beliefs. It is sickening to see one lose by abandoning them.”(Underscoring Forum’s.)

Read the entire Morris post here.

Let’s hope the senior senator from Arizona is listening to his allies.  And indeed the senator may just now be going on the offensive.  Even though the Main Stream Media will likely distort whatever the Republican candidate does, The Hill today carries this hopeful story “McCain reverses course on bailout credit” here.

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