Reply #19: IMHO this is the fatal flaw that is killing McCain .... [View All]

McCain not only cannot speak extemporaneously, his hands are tied as to what he can and should say. He, John McCain, at this late date, has no clear idea of what his campaign strategy might be. Because he is unsure, he is paralyzed to strike out on a path that forgoes other possibilities.

Campaigns live and breath with internal polling to decide what works and what does not work. Howver, you cannot craft a winning campaign based on responding only to the next news cycle. At some point you have to 'put down roots' and branch out in policy positions from there.

McCain does not have that anchor position from which to wage his campaign. Further, the attempt to 'hold' the social conservative, fundamentalist, and moderate wings of the Republican Party has served to alienate the all crucial independents and unaffiliated voters.

Listen ... that is the sound of a campaign in crisis. Campaign officials going on the personal attack 24/7 .... and the public pronoucements of long-time Republicans distancing themselves from Palin as unqualified and the McCain Campaign as a disaster.

So tonight, McCain goes into the fight of his life with no steady ground under his feet, and no hope of uniting the warring factions he must garner to win.

He will be lucky to remain standing when the 12th round bell ending the fight is rung.