Posted on 10/16/2008 6:39:42 AM PDT by wbill
I apologize in advance for the vanity, but....
I watched the debates last night. I thought that McCain did extremely well. Then, I turned on the after-debate spin, and the general opinion (even from FOX) was that the debate was, at best, a "tie".
CNN, surprisingly enough, was a little more "fair and balanced"....but still, the prevailing opinion was that McCain lost.
About the only thing that I wish McCain did better was to focus. He tends to get sidetracked. But - just mentioning things like Ayers and ACORN, will force them to be addressed by the MSM, I think.
Did anyone else see something I nissed? Was I watching a different debate?
Nope, you’re not the only one.
The live thread was great!
Also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2106700/posts
There was a candidate from Nantucket....
He did well but he didn’t even swing at the “Kill him” lie. The secret service had already determined that there was no evidence and McCain should have said so.
The Obamanoids, including those in the Obamedia, are programmed to convince us that Hussein Obama is the winner of EVERYTHING. Obama got his ass kicked last night.
Most commentators said they McCain only reached the base last night. Even if that is true, that in of itself will be a big help in this election. McCain needs the GOP to turn out like they did in 2004.
McCain identifies with everyman through Joe the Plumber
the second question was as lame as lame gets. If I were Mac, I would have simply said, “I am here to kick his but and win this election, and he is here to do the same. That was a dumb question, next question please.”
I thought he did a great job! Of course the liberal media wants the public to think otherwise. Have you seen the images posted on Yahoo yet? Pathetic.
Watching the FOX “pundits” I thought they were hypnotized by Obama or something.
McCain was a clear winner, had a half dozen zingers, made great points separating the two, he won HUGE.
I was flabbergasted listening to the FOX folks - it was as it they didn’t watch the same debate.
"Senator Government".
Yep, the Reagan Democrats just came home.
I agree... I think he won. I was driving with it on the radio and cheering like crazy (people in cars nearby must have thought I was nuts) especially the “I am not george bush” followed by Obama’s stupid response and Obama’s support of ACORN, Ayers, and high taxes-— I also thought it was great how McCain made it so Obama’s arrogance that he wouldn’t even apologize for his supporters who likend McCain-Palin to segregation
I was, like you, surprised that FOX had the test group so strongly in Obama’s favor (not so surprised by CNN’s though)
the question is though, how much of this is just to rile up McCain’s base (us) and how much of it will appeal to the undecided voter?
Anyone else noticing a lot more McCain-Palin bumper stickers and signs than Obama-Biden ones? I live in a pretty low income of Connecticut that consistently votes Democrat but I have seen far more McCain stuff than Obama, particularly in the last couple weeks—— noticed the same thing back in Taxachusetts——maybe there is still hope, if even a state as Blue as CT and MA are having such strong support for McCain
Too bad we don’t have a real media or Obama would be called out this morning on his infant born alive lies
He's been growing on me though. Strikes me as an honest man. Or, at least as honest as a politician can get. I saw genuine outrage last night (I don't think that he was faking it) when he directly called out Obama on some of the nastier racial attacks that Obama's proxies had been making - and Obama still ducked.
All of the 'cosmopolitan republicans' (Frum Brooks etc) all feel that there is no constituency for small government. Well there he is ... he's a plumber from Ohio.
I find it very hard to believe that there aren't more like him everywhere out there.
Exactly. That's why I switched over to CNN. They were more balanced, believe it or not. The usual suspects (Gergen, et al) even were grudgingly admitting that McCain won.
“Senator Government” was a classic. We need to make sure that particular comment grows legs.
He was able to build a solid narrative thru Joe the Plumber that can be used for the next three weeks hard.
He brought up acorn in a very good way, which should be pounded in our negative ads
He came off as much more sincere and passionate than Obama.
He had the debate line of the year “you should have run in 2004...”
And that we are subject to another teflon President (which freaks me out but gives me the opportunity to remind myself of a favorite quote from David Brinkley:
"I wish to say that we all look forward with great pleasure to four years of wonderful, inspiring speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection and more goddamn nonsense."
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