It's high noon; no one showed up

This is what is wrong with John McCain's campaign.
He has played the POW card too often.
He has played the warrior card too seldom, if he has played it at all.
While Democrats and their cheerleaders in the media were tryng to kneecap Sarah Palin, McCain was singing Kumbaya.
That is not how a warrior behaves.
If he had told the kneecappers to mind their manners, many voters would have risen to their feet. If he had shaken his clenched fist, the election would be all-but-over now.
That's how starved America is for the manly spirit. There is a void in politics where manhood used to be.
This is especially true for the conservative blue collar Democrats who voted for Hillary Clinton and now have no one to admire. They voted for Ronald Reagan in the 1980s and for Clinton in 2008. Now they are footloose. They will not be captured by a candidate who sings Kumbaya or talks about his POW years as a defining experience. The P in POW stands for prisoner. That is not an image that a leader should embrace.
The time has come to stoke the fire, if there is any fire left in John McCain.
Tell war stories, not POW stories.
Tell us about your father and grandfather, both admirals who served during interesting times and undoubtedly had many stories to tell.
Too much has been made about what McCain can't do. The Democrats have cleverly figured out what to say and do that will provoke the McCain campaign to talk explicitly about what he can't do.
Here are some options:
1. Set a beer can on a fence post, hand McCain a rifle or a pistol and see if he can knock it off. Keep filming until he hits. Throw away the misses.
2. Show McCain driving off-road in an off-road vehicle. If he's never done it before, so what?
3. Show old family films of McCain at play, preferably football but baseball will do. Table tennis? Croquet? Golf?

Bear in mind that during Franklin Roosevelt's long tenure in the White House we knew he had a strong mind and a stout and good heart; we didn't know he had useless legs. His handlers carried out a deception that I, for one, deeply admire.

We have recently seen too much of the corruptocrats of Washington. They played the compassion card to defeat standards and get special treatment for their clients. Now we are all paying the hidden costs of their compassion, while they blame the people who tried to stop their thuggery.

Their compassion was not a sign of character, but rather the opposite.
Because of that, it's about character now. Show us McCain's. The warrior character, not the POW character.
When Americans look at footage of the White House, they want to see John Wayne ready for the draw, not Woody Allen exploring his inadequacies on still another psychiatrist's couch.
Winston Churchill wrote movingly about how happy he was when he heard about Pearl Harbor. He had been terribly afraid that England was going to lose the war. When Japan attacked at Pearl Harbor, America was in the fight. Churchill went to sleep that night knowing that his side was going to win.