THE COUNTDOWN – AT 7:40 A.M. ET:  The election will be held six weeks from tomorrow.  That's about three lifetimes in politics, maybe more with today's 24-hour news cycle.  Plenty can happen.  Innovative – or vicious – politicians can change history in that time.

Last week was not good for our side.  We allowed the focus to shift from the monumentally poor record of the Obama administration and its Congressional allies to the influence of the Tea Party on Republican aspirations.  Once again, the mainstream media acted as a branch of the administration, advancing the line that the GOP was increasingly being taken over by "those people."  Questions asked by Karl Rove about Christine O'Donnell became more important than the jobless numbers.

That has to stop, right now.

The job the GOP has this morning is to get the focus back on the Democrats and what they've managed to do to America in less than two years.  And Republicans must speak over the heads of the press, as Ronald Reagan learned to do.  Katie Couric is not looking for ways to be fair and balanced.  The "60 Minutes" puff interview with the CBS-resurrected Jimmah Carter told the story of how biased that network has become. 

We have said repeatedly that this election is not in the bag for the GOP.  Last week proved the point.  Time to go back on the attack.

September 20, 2010