My guess at the Republican strategy.

[JDPriestly]

McCain cannot be attacked because he is a POW.

Palin cannot be attacked because she is a woman, mother of 5 one of whom has Downs Syndrome.

That frees the Swift-Boating Republicans to attack Obama and Biden endlessly and mercilessly in the certainty that the Democrats cannot attack back without meeting the responses: I was a POW. AND My youngest son Tric has Downs Syndrome.

It's a perfect Rovian twist.

Fortunately, every life has its challenges and tragedies. Obama's supporters need to say: How dare you attack the son of a woman who raised him without a father. How dare you attack a man whose first wife died so tragically and who takes Amtrack home every night that he possibly can?

Obama and Biden are going to have to imitate the Republican defense tactic, as embarrassed as they may be to do it.

[kwolf68]

1. If Palin can not handle being

Legitimately attacked then she has no business being VP. I want her and McCain out to pasture come Novemeber...this will be the EXACT same thing as what we've had. They are putting lipstick on a pig. Conservative policies are the failure here and having a good looking women leading that charge won't change that fact.

ATTACK HER

[madaboutharry]

2. I think Obama and Biden are going to treat her

exactly the way they treated Hillary Clinton, like an equal. She will either sink or swim.

[Merlot]

3. Don't attack the person, attack the policies

Problem solved!

[JaneQPublic]

4. Excuse me, don't you mean "strategery"?

:silly:

[Wickerman]

5. lol

I opened this thread to type simply that.

:rofl: If this don't describe strategery...

[JDPriestly]

7. Well, it's probably a little bit of the real reason: Who can attack such

pretty young woman with so many children especially if one of them is Downs Syndrome. It's kind of an insurance policy against blowback otherwise know as karma, or if you prefer, the wages of sin. How can you doubt it???

I'm a teeny bit serious.

[ooga booga]

6. I see this as high stakes poker.

Barak Obama has thrown down challenge after challenge to McCain forcing him to try to match each one.

As I see it, there isn't a Republican out there who matches up with Joe Biden and both Obama and McCain know it. McCain was forced into a "Hail Mary Pass" with his choice of Sarah Palin. It's a transparent pander to Hillary's disaffected supporters. Hoping that they'll got to the ticket because of her gender and conveniently ignoring that the two oldest Supreme Court justices are Stevens (88) and Ginsberg (70+) and that who choses their successors decides the fate of Roe v. Wade. It appears that Sarah Palin is much less enthusiastic about the VP slot than Joe Biden is. A VP debate with Mitt Romney would have been more fun, but I am comfortable with Joe versus Sarah Palin.

Another throwdown challenge was that nomination acceptable spectacle in the football stadium. Obama is saying, "Hey, McCain. Let's see YOU in front of 80,000 people." Remember the photo of Obama in Berlin where the crowd seemed to stretch to the horizon? Look for Obama to appear again and again in front of HUGE crowds. He can draw them just about wherever and whenever he wants, and every time it sends the message that he's hugely popular. I live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in the biggest most reliably Red State on the map, and we saw him draw a very big crowd here during the Texas primary. I think he could do it again tomorrow. All he's gotta do in tell people when and where he'll be.

Try to spot those challenges as they come along. Barak Obama will continue to up the ante on McCain right up to November.