Onward!

I can't say I didn't feel that Sen. Clinton was the better candidate and, if elected president, would be better for the country as a whole. Clearly I disagree with her on a lot of things, but she does have consistent logic about many things we disagree on that Sen. Obama lacks. Her experience, particularly with foreign policy, put her ahead for me. I do feel Obama is easier to beat in November.

Where McCain needs to go now is to prevent the nebulous change rhetoric from continuing ad nauseum.

1) Take on Obama's earmarks (specifically things like hundreds of thousands to buddy Pfleger, or $1 million to his wife's employer) Compare this to McCain's track record against pork and earmarks and how this stance differs from Bush and the republicans who have lost their seats because of their reckless spending. Think highway bill - fun fact, not a single democrat voted against that gem of spending.

2) McCain suggested the surge before the White House came around, he needs to continue to hit up how this was different from the Bush lack of plan and suggest how his direction is different than Bush's current plans. Obama is simply regurgitating the same argument since the beginning and not dealing with the realities on the ground. You break it, you buy it.

3) I'd love to see a good list of the billions of handouts Obama is using to buy votes. Sure, "free" college, "free" health care, $1000 tax cuts, "cheap" hybrid cars all sound wonderful... but a good job adding up those costs as well as other expansions of government (including 70k more troops) could do well to show the utopian pipe dream he has created.

4) McCain desperately needs to make his health care case more succinctly and in terms Americans can connect to. Mindless democrats will continue to suck up the feel goods by trying to do something for the little guy while ignoring facts and continuing to assume anything but throwing money at an issue is simply evil and greedy. Many will incorrectly assume that McCain wont do anything about health care, whereas Obama is making this a cornerstone of his campaign. McCain needs to do a better job of making it the cornerstone of his - it's in my opinion the issue this campaign and why I'm not considering a third party vote.

Here's hoping Clinton doesn't end up VP and the moderate end of their party has hope for some real change by voting McCain. I like listening to Obama speak about as much as I like listening to Bush speak if that says anything, so I hope McCain gets on the offensive so I can stop watching rewinds of Obama's same speech again and again.