Scared Yet?

No? That's because you haven't seen today's national polls (which I've told you time and again to ignore) nor heard the whining from your favorite broadcasters about McCain's ascent and Obama's descent.
The Palin effect? Possibly some of that, and an expected post-convention bounce that always happens. Happened for Obama, too.

But if you want to be really scared, you can always fall in line with the folk who think Obama's fatal mistake was not choosing Hillary to run with.

"That is why McCain will win in November, and by a landslide, barring some unforeseen event. Obama is the most talented and persuasive politician of his generation, the intellectual superior of all his competitors, but a fatally insecure personality. American voters are not intellectual, but they are shrewd, like animals. They can smell insecurity, and the convention stank of it. Obama's prospective defeat is entirely of its own making. No one is more surprised than Republican strategists, who were convinced just weeks ago that a weakening economy ensured a Democratic victory.

Here's where the analysis breaks down, although whether voters will know it is not mine to guess.

He picked the available candidate most like himself: a maverick with impeccable reform credentials, a risk-seeking commercial fisherwoman and huntress married to a marathon snowmobile racer who carries a steelworkers union card.

Ignore the fisherwoman and huntress stuff. Neither of these people are mavericks, it's the campaign mythology and whether it holds for much longer is up to the Obama campaign. Todd carries a steelworkers card because he has to. Ewww! This is all such crap, and yet there it is. The Narrative.
Without the baby blankets. Must have been written by a man. I feel better now.

Somebody named Spengler wrote this for Asian Times and I don't have a link because I stole it from a comment.