Posted on 05/22/2008 10:44:29 AM PDT by indcons
We can't tell if this is a barometer of how the fall general election might feel, but John McCain today compliments Barack Obama on his political acumen in a televised interview on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," a curious appearance for a candidate still trying to gather support from the Republican Party's social conservative base.
Host Ellen DeGeneres asks McCain about Obama's contention that "a vote for you is basically a vote for" a third George W. Bush term. Says McCain: Good strategy.
"I think it's a very intelligent campaign tactic. Obviously the president's popularity and approval ratings are low. So I think it's a pretty good tactic. I don't think it happens to be true, and I believe that I can show people not only where we have diverged, but serious differences: the issue of climate change, which is a huge issue out there in the state of California; the issue of spending; the way the war in Iraq was conducted for nearly four years, which was terribly frustrating.
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I like how they conveniently leave out that he has yet to win over economic conservatives. But, yes, he does have a strange way of trying to win conservative votes.
That's what I love about McCain. Not afraid to throw anybody under the bus.[/sarc]
This is a strange circle of politics:
Hillary rips Obama.
Obama rips McCain.
McCain praises Hillary and Obama.
The POTUS job is McCain’s to lose.
And, darned if he won’t figure out a way to lose it.
“I think it’s a very intelligent campaign tactic.”
Geeze John. Why not just appear at the end of THEIR attack ads and say “I’m John McCain and I approve this message.”
Obama’s strategy is great. He doesn’t let anyone know who he is or what he stands for.
I think that McInsane is trying to get the VP spot on Obama’s ticket.
“Host Ellen DeGeneres asks McCain about Obama’s contention that “a vote for you is basically a vote for” a third George W. Bush term.”
When people say that to me I reply “I’d rather have a third Bush term than a second Carter term.”
McCain is trying his damnedest to make sure we vote for a 3rd Party and he fails.
If McCain trolls made the same comments online, would they still be eligible for fabulous prizes or be taken to his virtual woodshed and water boarded?
That'll rally the base and win the election for him!! < /s> (Especially during a year when the Republicans are going to get whipped in Congress and the President's approval is dismal.....!!!)
Good god folks, I'm glad you kids aren't running Macs campaign.
This guy is going to single handly kill the Republican party. I wanted to give to his mailing request, now I hear this! This guy is such a loser it makes me gag!
LOL
“Ask about queer marriage, McCain replied by asking Ellen if she and her partner would be up for a threesome.”
No to me. But if it's global, why is it just an issue in California? Is McCain actually admitting that he's just pandering on this to win in California? Criminey.
Tell me he did not say that. I mean he doesn't need to reinforce the image of being a creepy old man. Nothing sadder, even in jest, than for an old man to try to pick up to lesbians.
...the way the war in Iraq was conducted for nearly four years, which was terribly frustrating
That’s what I love about McCain. Not afraid to throw anybody under the bus.[/sarc]
The war was conducted poorly for 4 years. He was for a surge of troops in Iraq way before the administration was.
“The POTUS job is McCain’s to lose.
And, darned if he won’t figure out a way to lose it.”
Are you serious? This is a Democratic year through and through. With a president in the low 20s, a skittish economy, an unpopular war, record gas prices, and a party that is downright unpopular he should be lucky to even come close to beating the Democratic nominee.
See my tagline, I’ve had it for a while, and he proves its validity more and more each day
Monday morning quarterbacking. We'll see how many troops McCain gets killed in his first 4 years. Providing the dope can get elected.
The Obamination stands for the “red jihad”..
I didn’t think that would need a sarc tag.
McCain hates the Bush family so much he will embrace anything that casts either President Bush in a negative light (even if it personally sinks him as well).
Dang. I was done in by sarcasm.
The worst part is I can see him doing it...
That's what I love about McCain. Not afraid to throw anybody under the bus.[/sarc]
Better to throw failed policies under the bus than throw the troops and the entire war effort under the bus.
Remember the Surge that is now winning the war?
Up until Rumsfeld was fired, the Surge was opposed by Rumsfeld and Rumsfeld was backed up by Bush.
Except for Cheney, almost nobody in either the White House or Congress supported McCain's efforts to enact a Surge strategy. Thus, for four years, a "terribly frustrating", No-Win war was fought to the detriment of our troops, the morale of the Home Front and the entire war effort.
The Democrats take it as given that the Iraq War is lost and that is why success in Iraq is treated with silence by the liberal media. To win the war, McCain now has to educate the American Sheeple that the war is now being WON and that that is because his policies are NOT a third Bush term with the failed war strategy that was followed up until December of 2006 when McCain's Surge strategy was adopted and Rumsfeld was given his walking papers.
>> Are you serious?
Like a heart attack. Obama can be beaten like the Energizer bunny’s little drum. He is a nobody nothing with no real solutions to the very difficult problems you outline.
Hillary would be tougher for McCain to beat, but that’s possible also.
Is McCain capable of doing it? Does he possess the funding, strategery, articulatering communicativeness (!), people, organization skills, coherent plan, and WILL TO WIN and RUTHLESS STREETFIGHTING SKILLS to pull it off?
We’ll see. I have my doubts about that.
If he doesn’t, then frankly, the Lord’s will be done: a man who can’t expose and beat an Obama doesn’t deserve the job of running the country.
What next?....Is McCain going to give Obama a foot message?....
My take:
Is Bush currently unpopular with the majority of Americans? You bet he is.
Is it a smart tactic for Obama to try to tie McCain to Bush? Absolutely.
Does McCain need to seperate himself from Bush (not on everything, but on some things)? Of course he does.
Will McCain use a strategy of painting Obama as too inexperienced and too liberal/left to be President? Yes he will.
Will McCain’s strategy work? Stay tuned.
Wow! He just turned off all those conservatives who watch Ellen. /s
He is old, not blind...lol
Besides, have you seen his wife?
Your tagline......PRICELESS!!
Monday morning quarterbacking.
Wrong.
McCain was advocating the Surge strategy that is now winning the war long before it was adopted and McCain was pushing that Surge strategy against opposition from Rumsfeld, from Bush, from the Democrats, from the liberal media and from 82% of public opinion polls.
It is not "Monday morning quaterbacking".
It is "I TOLD YOU SO!".
No he doesn't. Et tu, McCain? He keeps this up and he'll loose my vote. It's hanging by a thread right now.
Does McCain really want to be president, or was the whole point of it for him defeating his fellow Republicans for the nomination? I really wonder.
Sad, but probably true.
“queer marriage”
I knew this Irish queer in school. He preferred women to liquor.
Feel free to use it!
Good interview, good responses..he held his ground while being gracious. Good for him.
If there is a choice between rallying Conservatives to the cause or liberal Californians to win another state, someone should tell John he has more opportunity to win conservatives than he'll ever have winning liberal California. Of course, he can also lose BOTH Conservatives and Californians, if he caters to liberal Californians and their ilk.
McCain’s answer was disarming, as it was intended to be. It immediately shifted the focus away from whether McCain was in fact like Bush, to Obama’s campaign tactics. McCain can play the game.
That is a unique thought...
How about this one...they could each be on the other's ticket...
Then they could take turns being on top.
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