Posted on 09/30/2008 1:33:52 PM PDT by pabianice
Dick Morris on Fox: McCain is bungling the bail-out issue so badly that he has basically lost the election by "a lot; will be 12 points behind Obama next week." McCain "is giving this issue away to Obama" by being ineffective and not pinning it rightfully on Pelosi, ACORN, and the Dems.
Pro-Obama ads are running 3-1 vs. McCain ads. Obama videos/Yoytube are running ten to one against McCain. I can't understand how a brave warrior like McCain can be so blind and go down with no fight. HOW can McCain let the ACORN issue just slide away?
If Morris says McCain is losing, we should be very happy!
“HOW can McCain let the ACORN issue just slide away?
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He stuck to his guns on the immigration issue, too, no matter how it upset conservatives.
I agree with Morris 100%.
McCain is doing everything wrong.
He needs to take a free market stance on the economy and set himself apart from Bush and 0bama, for the taxpayers, against government expansion.
That is his only chance to win.
He should recognize the fact now that he has already lost.
He’s a dead man walking.
There is no ‘safe path’ for him.
And he has nothing to lose by showing some guts.
He needs to call out the Democrats who have been in Fannie and Freddie’s back pockets by name. He needs to drop the ‘earmark’ nonsense and go after the real corruption in Washington, the wholesale looting of the national treasury.
I hate to admit it,,,but I agree with Morris on this one.
McCain is running a different kind of campaign dontcha know. He isnt going to go after anyone. He never has, he never will. IF he wins it will be because no one listened to the alphabet media, internet, and talk radio. It is the cell phone movement (are they being polled at all?)
I agree, it’s almost like he wants to lose.
yes true. but eve a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Well, McCain just wants to be bipartisan. He thinks that Pelosi is being mistreated, and he wants to be bipartisan and do everything he can to help her.
I hate him.
Morris is right on this one.
Yessssssss. The only thing I had been really worried about was that Morris had been predicting McCain’s victory.
They need to attack, relentlessly. Obama and the Democrats are a target rich environment, but right now McCain and his campaign are not taking advantage of it. Schmidt and McCain need to go nuclear, and soon.
McCain is the 2008 version of Bob Dole...
If I hear McCain call himself a reformer one more time I am going to barf/scream/start drinking heavily.
His “Big Dance” day is here and he’s too busy in the men’s room with his cajones stuck in his zipper.
As of now, the whole bail out fiasco cuts against us and McCain. I’ve been holding back looking for the magic shoe to drop and reading postings and threads in which so many FReepers are opining that events are going our way. Things have been going against badly us since last Friday, at least. Thank God at least the markets rallied today.
What I can't understand, however, is why Obama is getting the boost in the polls when he is even more culpable than McCain in all this??
Sad to say it but its true. Its like McCain does not want to win all of a sudden and all the wind is gone out of his sails. There should be ads running everyywhere showing how ACORN continbuted to the Wall Street Crisis and showing how Obama is involved in ACORN.. Whats the deal? Did McCain get scared all of a sudden? If he does not get back in the game its over and this country is lost forever.
If McCain is elected,
there are going to be a lot of weeks where we say
“that was a GREAT decision/move!”
and
“I hate him”
within 24 hours.
I agree.
McCain should come out against a government bailout.
I like Gingrich’s plan for a workout instead.
GINGRICH: “I think, first of all, they should replace the current snapshot to market with a rolling three-year average.
I think, second, they should change the current loan reserve pattern so it’s not pro-cyclical.
I think, third, they should zero capital gains.
I think, fourth, they need to adopt an energy plan to keep about $500 billion a year here at home instead of going overseas.
But on a practical level, if they need to open up a window to loan money to treasury plus 2 percent, and people want to come in and borrow the money and the responsibility (ph) of a workout not a bailout, and those people want to work their way out over the next three to five years. I’m comfortable saying this is a liquidity crisis; let’s meet it; let’s loan the money. But let’s make sure they are responsible for their bad debt, and they’re going to work their way out.
This idea that we’re going to buy the paper and some bureaucrat in Washington is going to be responsible for $700 billion in bad paper, I think, is socialism at its worst. I can’t imagine why this administration is doing it. I think it is profoundly wrong, and I hope it is defeated if it comes to the floor in this form.”
http://newt.org/tabid/102/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/3742/Default.aspx
And finally, raise the limit on FDIC insurance on savings.
“McCain is the 2008 version of Bob Dole...”
I was gonna say this, but you beat me to it.
Yea, yea.
I suppose you think it’s still going to be Hillary vs. Condi in the Presidential race.
I thought Morris thought the campaign suspension was a good thing and that he was going to win the campaign with it? That guy, like most TV pontificators, talks out of both sides of his arse.
Another negative VANITY?
How about I post 50 positive vanities today?
Why don’t we all start posting 2 sentence vanities of good news?
Who needs the MSM when Freepers post negative vanities that would make them SCREAM if they came from the MSM?
Morris is usually wrong. He’s an opportunist, and he doesn’t care what he says as long as it will please whoever he’s nosing up to at the moment.
But in this case, he’s right. McCain is miserably screwing this up.
He’s gone after Obama hard. Plenty of good ads but you know, he’s just NOT THAT IMPRESSIVE as a candidate. He sucks on policy, he gives a lame speech and he’s done really bad with getting surrogates out there for him.
Thanks to McCain’s bipartisan priorities, we can all look forward to our kids learning to sing like this to the future “Dear Leader”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW9b0xr06qA
US of North Korea, thanks to McCain when Obama wins.
Agreed
But, they NEVER do. Ever. The right ABSOLUTELY SUCKS at countering the lefts BS.
“McCain is the 2008 version of Bob Dole.....”
Beginning to look true. Hopefully the strength of his VP candidate and the incredible (but heretofore unexploited) weaknesses of his opposition will help him limp across the finish line ahead.
Morris is even more right than he knows. Such a move by McCain would neutralize Obama and put the Rats back on defense. The McCain=Bush meme would be lost for Obama and that seems to be his only weapon outside of 1000’s of eager and willing deceased that will vote for him.
That is maddening, why isn’t McCain still running ads? Is his campaign “still suspended” or what?
Obama is getting a boost because of Bush. The no more 4 years is key! Not a republican.
Damn! It’s like Sarah Palin is CARRYING the hopes of the GOP on her shoulders. I hate McCain as well, but the alternative of Obama makes one to vote for Mccain BECAUSE of Obama.
Morris is partially right. McCain does need to be clear and quit trying to be all things to all people. McCain is in a holding pattern. I don’t think he is nearly as bad off as Morris is saying and I think he may have actually been recovering a bit but Morris is right on one thing. McCain needs to lead and he needs to attack Obama. Obama is attacking him and whether he likes it or not one does not win anything by taking a beating. The pity vote isn’t big enough enough.
This spring, McCain was an idiot liberal who had no chance of beating Obama.
Today, McCain is an idiot liberal who is giving away the election by not trying to pin the economic problems on the Democrats.
In every previous case, McCain had an ace up his sleeve, and I think he does now, also. He hasn't spent eight years of Machiavellian scheming to throw it all away now just so he can look like the nice guy.
Morris, and Newt and Hannity, among others, have been in the same relative universe since last week. And they are all correct.
Now that the deal has gone down, McCain should pin the bailout package on Obama and Bush — and let the RATS stew in their own juices.
It’s truly amazing that he is this tone-deaf. He is throwing away an electoral gift.
Current events make 'earmarks' look pretty trivial don't they. I agree, that McCain's only chance now is to champion free market alternatives to the bailout in whatever form. Many such interventions exist, and some might actually solve underlying problems while preserving the peoples' freedom.
Freedom. When was the last time we heard this word from either candidate? Ever? I can't recall.
i don’t understand why mccain is not running a more aggressive campaign.
I understand and yet fortunately every time I have agreed with Morris I was wrong......so far.
Maybe he is being stubborn and taking the "high road" when he should be using brass knuckles or at least have his campaign do it.
He said Hillary would be President and the GOP would nominate Powell or Condi rice.
People, we need to understand that the bill has to get done and signed before McCain will do any finger pointing. He is too much of a patriot for that. Once a bipartisan bill is achieved and passed, McCain will tell the tell. The question is, will Pelosi, Obama, Reid and Frank have convinced the public that it’s all McCain’s fault by the time he speaks on this?
No — that is not correct. Morris said that suspending the campaign was fine PROVIDED THAT McCain took full advantage of the matter at the Friday night debate. Instead, McCain went wobbly and didn’t even bother to explain his actions to the American people, let alone assign the blame to his opponent.
Why is Dick Morris so hated on Free Republic?
McCain waffled. Time to change tactics and get hard-nosed.
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