During last night's debate:

1. Obama said this campaign should not be calling the other candidate a "bad person"
I believe in evil and I believe evil should be confronted and defeated. Obama may not like it that his actions have moral consequences but the associations he has and his radically anti-life positions will and do. These are issues that DO have a right and a wrong side and it is not "negative" to bring them up.
Obama also has to take a firm stand on moral issues. He can not keep grabbing things out of the air like "I think sex is a sacred act" and turn around and say the Constitution protects the right of women to kill their unborn children.

2. Obama thinks that Government is the solution to the world's problems.
Obama thinks if we can just take money from Joe Plumber (because obviously he can afford it!) we can create programs that provide universal health care, universal pre-K, cheap college tuition, and top notch education. His plan is a one-dimensional spotlight on government bureaucracy. He cannot say as McCain did that "I've been a good steward of your tax-dollars." All he can say is that HE knows how much money to take from you and HE knows who can afford to be taxed and fined and HE knows where the money could be better spent. He's not my personal financial consultant and therefore it is not his job.

3. Obama lied
Obama's record caught up with him tonight and he was forced to spend a lot of time retelling the stories of his votes against Born-Alive Infants, of his associations with Ayers, and his involvement in ACORN. He sounded like a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar trying to defend his positions which are already well-documented. His storytelling didn't help his cause.

Overall, I thought McCain did well. He had the confidence and alacrity that comes with having truth on your side. He didn't have to sit and defend his positions or decisions or inflate his record like Freshman Senator Obama did. He pointed out all the things that conservatives have been talking about and thinking: that our views are fundementally different from Obama's because we believe in putting the power in the hands of individuals...that people, not government. are better equipped to make decisions about childcare, education, health care, etc, and that we do not become more prosperous by redistributing wealth.