Final Debate Thoughts
McCain was aggressive but unfocused. Time after time, he flailed away at Obama, usually lurching from subject to subject within the same two-minute response. His proposals were one part GOP orthodoxy and two parts half-assed populist claptrap.
Then, when he did attack, he failed to seal the deal.
Obama preempted him on Ayers, mentioning it first and forcing McCain to remind everyone of his own contradiction: He doesn't care about some washed-up old terrorist, yet made him the centerpiece of his attacks on Obama's character. And his ACORN comment was just plain bizarre: "Greatest election fraud ever?" Good grief.
Tell you what: If 12 different "Tony Romo"s show up to vote and are allowed to cast ballots, then I'll believe something shady happened. If some guy flashes a voter card identifying himself as "Mickey Mouse" and isn't immediately disqualified, then I might accept some of these histrionics.
Voter registration fraud is one thing: It's bad, the individuals who did it were deservedly fired and, if prosecuted, should be punished. But that's a far cry from election fraud. Aside from that, it's demonstrably true that for every ACORN-submitted form that was flagged as suspicious, more than a dozen valid registrations from real voters have been accepted all over the country.