Dirty Harry on the Campaign Trail

Clint Eastwood apparently shares my perception of the way the current campaign is going, judging by this short bit in his speech to the Republican convention:

 we do not have to be metal (ph) masochists and vote for somebody that we don’t really even want in office just because they seem to be nice guys or maybe not so nice guys, if you look at some of the recent ads going out there, I don’t know.

That is, Obama's chief asset is the perception that he's likable, and his team is in danger of throwing that away by being too aggressive. And they are being too aggressive currently.