Diane, on Linda Chavez:

By the way, I sense that the tide is changing in the MSM. Now that their darling is the frontrunner and McCain seems powerless to defeat him, their defensive crouch is turning into something else – a genuine curiosity to discover how Obama will govern.

This is the best thing that could happen for McCain. It will expose Obama’s true colors, whatever they may be, at a time when voters are taking a final look – and asking themselves, emotions and resentments aside, “do I really want Obama to be my president?”

The less McCain attacks at this point, the more explaining Obama will have to do. Instead of crying “foul, divisive, racist” he will need to talk about what exactly he means by “change.” And when he does, I think that American centrists will get a nervous feeling in the pit of their stomachs.

Thought everyone is writing McCain’s political obituary, let’s not forget that the margin of victory is 4 percentage points. Perhaps the only way to beat a phenomenon like Obama is to capitulate. Let him preen and pontificate and measure the curtains. That’s the most powerful negative campaign I can imagine!