McCain is going all out for the base, and channeling his bff Jerry Falwell

McCain is going all out for the base. Think about it, in just the past few days we've heard from the McCain campaign that:

- Obama's health care plan is "socialism."
- Sarah Palin suddenly is speaking out in favor of banning gays in the US Constitution.
- McCain thinks "the feminist left" is behind the public perception of Sarah Palin as a blithering idiot (yes, Peggy Noonan, Mike Murphy, Colin Powell, Chris Buckley, and Ken Adelman are lefty feminists).
- Obama wants to kill babies.
- Relligion is somehow being denigrated in this campaign.

Gays, God, socialists, feminists and the secularization of America are the enemy. Where have we heard this before? Why, none other than John McCain's dearly-departed best friend Jerry Falwell! You remember the time he blamed God, and all of us for, September 11:

"I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'"

The thing is, this race isn't going to be won by turn-out on the right. It's going to be won by turn-out on the left combined with a mass defection of woman and independents from McCain to Obama. McCain can veer as far to the right as he wants, he's never going to get to 51% by wooing the 23% of Americans who still think George Bush is doing a good job.