The surge of the McCain/Palin campaign coming out of the convention may have been effectively derailed.
In one short sound bite, Obama set up a decoy that drew all the fire from the right. All discussion of McCain's rise in the polls, the energized conservative base, the excitement over the Palin selection and the the blatantly false attempts to smear her seemed to cease. All of the valid arguments against Obama and Biden from inexperience to corruption were set aside and the right spent the day replaying and commenting over and over again on a poorly delivered joke which had plausible deniability regarding its connection to Gov. Palin. Even worse, it left the right open to the charges that they were taking comments out of context, trying to play the gender card and not concerned with real issues.
The right must find a way to regain it's momentum and avoid being distracted again, especially with the possibility of Obama changing his VP selection and having a big surge of his own.
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