Most of us (liberals) think you're smart enough, but in any case ...

D O N ' T T A K E T H E B A I T

McCain wants you to "suspend" your campaign right along with him. It's a trap. Keep registering voters, and for the love of God, make sure they check their registration. Keep running ads. Keep making speeches. Keep touring. It's the 4th quarter with 10 minutes left to go and McCain wants to suspend the game. Not because it's raining, but because you have the ball and are up by 10 points.

This, of course, belies the fact that McCain's desire to suspend the campaign is in all likelyhood horseshit.

McCain will continue his campaign, but in a different way. It's a twist on the Karl Rove strategy to turn the enemy's greatest strength into a liability, as the original swiftboaters did with John Kerry's decorated military service as compared to George W. Bush's rich-kid version of draft-dodging.

If Obama is an inspiring speaker, then turn it against him by insinuating that he thinks of himself as a Messiah.

If Obama is popular, then turn it against him by casting him as a Hollywood celebrity.

And now, McCain's strategy appears to turn your superior poll numbers into yet another gambit to turn the tables on you.

Expect this: "While Obama is out politicking and increasing his poll numbers, John McCain is soberly working on our economic crisis like a true leader should."

This would, of course, be a press release and not a statement at a press conference. As is obvious by now, McCain and Palin have been hiding in a bubble because every time they appear in an unscripted venue they make total asses of themselves. And so instead of grabbing some backbone and doing the best he can in the debates, he wants to put them off until, who knows, forever?

Call him out. Say that this is no time to run from responsibilities, and no time to hide from the American people. In other words, insinuate that he is cowering in the face of conflict. That's right, the "war hero" - cowering. His greatest strength nullified. It's an effective strategy I hear, and this time is has the benefit of being true.