Mickey Kaus channels Dick Morris, circa 1988

Mickey Kaus in Slate.com http://www.slate.com/id/2195914/?from=rss#nopivot

Maybe we should pay more attention to the issues on which Obama hasn't noticeably shifted to the center. For example, 1) health care and 2) tax increases. In each case, the relevant question would seem to be: Is he sticking to his guns because a) that's what he really believes his presidency should be about, or b) the issue is so central to his coalition that changing his position would disrupt his election strategy? .

This is a good strategy for McCain as it forces Barack on defend on a fixed front, instead of bobbing and weaving and using the press to cover his flank as he wobbles across the political spectrum.

Dick Morris, who had worked with anti-Dukakis MA Democrats, made the same suggestion to Lee Atwater. He suggested that by forcing Dukakis to defend those liberal institutions he was proud of (like the ACLU) that moderate support would be run off by Dukakis's defense and Duke wouldn;t have time to get moderate on issues he wanted to. Worked in 40 states. 

I would suggest Kaus omitted two rather powerful issues here which Team Mac seems hesitant to exploit: where Obama has ptiched his tent to the Left , and is staying there: 

a) immigration http://www.barackobama.com/issues/pdf/ImmigrationFactSheet.pdf

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BZprtPat1Vk

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=4233535&page=1

b) gay marriage http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/1051404.html

I donlt know why McCain doesn't aggressively get to Obama's right on these issues. It's not like he is going to get worse press, now is he?