Will the GOP Offer A Nov 7th Surprise?

Michael Novak thinks so:

The Republican base is extremely angry at the mainstream media. The media have ceased to be striped-shirted referees in the ring. This year, day after day, they have been throwing sucker punches aimed to help the Left. Nowadays, there is no trustworthy referee. Where a reasonably impartial press (tilting only slightly left) used to be, there is now only a passion to hurt a president in a time of war, the most dangerous war in our history. Republicans will be voting against the left-wing media, the left-wing courts, and the whole culture of the Left.

Recent court decisions — New Jersey most immediately — show so much contempt for moral tradition (as if our grandfathers were less moral than we), such a lack of intellectual acuity (as if matrimony were a contract like any other, as if it were a human bond like any other, as if it were of no more crucial service to the survival of the State than any other human relation — say, of two elderly sisters caring for each other), and such an arrogant disregard of the will of the governed that once more, yet again, they have unmasked the ugly culture of the Left.

I think he's underestimating the considerable remaining influence of the LWM. Republicans have been able to overcome it in the past through a mixture of new media and compelling messages. I'm afraid we lack the latter this election cycle.