The Tennessee ConserVOLiance

Bill Kristol has a great op/ed demonstrating why non-Obama-fans should take heart (”Can They Catch Up?”). He writes about the kind of “offensive” necessary to prevail on November 4th:

The positive component is pretty straightforward: McCain and Palin are common sense conservatives and proven reformers. The record of reform can be emphasized and contrasted with Obama’s and Biden’s record of conventional, go-along, get-along liberalism. And implicitly: If McCain and Palin are reformers and outsiders, it’s not Bush’s third term. More important is the negative message. The McCain campaign has to convince 51 percent of the voters they can’t trust Barack Obama to be our next president. This has an ideological component and a character component.

I encourage you to read the rest of the article . . .

And Dan Cleary has a thoughtful post up regarding how Conservatives should interpret the current polling data. I liked the comment from an Obama person earnestly arguing, no, he really should accept that Obama has this thing in the bag. Sorry, Libs, if I am going to choose not to ensure–by throwing in the towel, that Obama wins the race.