Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt Are You Listening? Reprise

Flap is NOT reassured with Steve Schmidt’s comments today.

John McCain’s chief strategist Steve Schmidt said Monday that the campaign is “well within striking distance” of Barack Obama.

“We are running in a very difficult political environment, that’s not a secret to anybody that’s out there,” Schmidt said during an interview on National Public Radio. “I believe in this race we are approximately six points behind. There’s a lot of the media right now that is writing Senator McCain off for the third or fourth time this year. That means we have ‘em just where we want ‘em in this race.”

“We have an ability to close that distance in the final weeks of the campaign and we’ll be working hard to do that,” Schmidt added. “We feel good about the possibilities of winning the race.”

Schmidt blamed the financial crisis for the campaign’s current state, pointing out that before the crisis McCain was running ahead of Obama.

“We understand that the day of the beginning of the financial crisis we were ahead in this race. With the financial crisis we have fallen slightly behind in the race and we have some ground to make up,” Schmidt said.

It has been the economy for over three weeks now and Team McCain continues to struggle with a coherent message while Obama really has said nothing.

The ONLY historical note that is optimistic for the McCain-Palin ticket is that Obama has had trouble closing out
his campaign against Hillary Clinton. In fact, he LIMPED into the nomination.

So, Steve, get Mac on a consistent, coherent economic message – and run with it.

You are running out of time – IT IS NOW OR NEVER.

Update:

This doesn’t help.