Posted on 09/18/2008 12:49:39 PM PDT by paudio
ARLINGTON, VA -- Today, McCain-Palin 2008 released its latest television ad, entitled "Michigan Jobs." The ad highlights the McCain-Palin economic plan to create jobs in Michigan. The ad will be air in Michigan.
Nice strategy. While Obama is out there blaming McCain and the Republicans for the Wall Street crisis, McCain is offering a job plan for Michigan. Good stuff.
I like it.
My instinct is that this will resonate with the voters...but then, I’m not in Michigan.
What do Michigan voters think?
I hope the ad strongly points out that the Michigan governor and both senators are... Democrats! Oh, and that Detroit mayor (Kwame) turned jailbird ain't exactly a Pubbie, either!! :-) Perhaps the McCain camp could squeeze in a clip of the Obamessiah praising Kwame Kilpatrick.
I hope it isn’t a pander.
This is good. Specific.
Now what McCain needs to do is put his sights on Democrat leaders who are responsible for Freddie/Fannie that started this financial disaster by getting into junk loans. In other words, name names: Dobbs, Frank, Obama.
I'm not involved in the auto-industry, but this one sounds a little more like old established Washington pork sharing than it does truly new reform to downsize the government, to me. I can't help but think who's going to pay for these subsidies and incentives.
I love “Change is Coming”, ripping off The Messiah’s slogan and there’s not a damn thing he can do about it other than whine like a little girl.
“The ad will be air in Michigan.”
I think John McCain needs someone to edit press releases before they go out.
Hard to say, half are too stupid to think.
The first part - govt loan for automation - does sound like a pander.
A private business that wasn’t loaded down with toxic unions and/or poor management ought to be able to get private money for this sort of thing. Subsidising a private industry with public money is a **Welfare Program**.
Hope McCain isn’t going to make a habit of this. But maybe the loan will come with strings attached that make it a better use of public money.
“junk loans”
Dude! Thanks for memory jog. Junk loans are the same as junk bonds.
I now have an new tagline.
Oh yes.
The bi-partisan promise of billions to the auto industry to build “green” cars (that nobody will want to buy).
If you want to bring manufacturing jobs back to michigan, you must do 5 things:
CUT TAXES...
Roll back inane Enviro regs..
CUT TAXES...
CUT TAXES...
CUT TAXES...
You’ve GOT to bring the costs of manufacturing something in America back down to a reasonable level.
Over-taxation and over-unionization has POISONED manufacturing in America.
I like the idea on the surface, but my gut tells me that if Michigan is really that close, he does not need to spend money there to win the election. Unless the polls are well-off (negatively for McCain) in the other swing states, I think he would be better focusing exclusively on the states where he has a slim lead and/or have voted Republican lately (e.g. VA, OH, FL, NV, CO). He wins those, and BHO can’t win... I hope he is not wasting money in MI and PA; I just can’t see them going McCain, and if they do, it will be a landslide where national ads would be just as effective.
Script For “Michigan Jobs” (TV :30)
ANNCR: Michigan families depend on the auto industry.
John McCain and his Congressional allies know it.
Their plan:
Loans to upgrade assembly lines.
Tax credits to boost sales of clean vehicles.
Offshore drilling to reduce the cost of gas and spur truck sales.
And financial reforms to protect your retirement.
Change is coming.
JOHN MCCAIN: I’m John McCain and I approve this message.
To be fair, the tax credits sounds like a step in the right direction, except as you say it’s for cruddy green garbage.
The loan for assembly lines - brrr. McCain is stepping on British Leyland’s grave here (UK car industry reference) and arousing some old ghosts.
It’s a pander. Government loans and tax credits. Yeah drilling for oil will help, but the fundamental reason Michigan is in bad shape is that its basic industries are not doing well. Why is that? Why are American car manufacturers doing poorly? Answer that and that’s a real substantive fix. Dump the unions and guess what, things will get better without the tax subsidies that BMW and Toyota wring out of local governments to build plants in right to work states. Dump CAFE and some other regulations too and guess, what, American manufacturing gets competitive again.
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