Can McCain Still Win?

Human Events ^ | Patrick J. Buchanan

[Chet 99]

Can McCain Still Win?

by Patrick J. Buchanan

Posted 10/10/2008 ET

Two weeks after the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn., John McCain and Sarah Palin were striding forward toward victory.

They had erased the eight-point lead Barack Obama had opened up in Denver and watched as one blue state after another moved into the toss-up category.

That is ancient history now.

Since mid-September, the stock market has cratered, losing half of the $8 trillion that has vanished since October 2007. All five of America's great investment banks -- Bear Sterns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill-Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley -- have either ceased to be independent or ceased to be.

The nation's largest savings and loan, Washington Mutual, and largest insurance company, AIG, have gone belly up, with the federal bailout of the latter costing $100 billion and counting. Perhaps $3 trillion of the $8 trillion in stock value that is gone disappeared after passage of the $700 billion federal bailout of Wall Street.

No bottom is in sight to the worst market crash since 1929. Recession is now certain. George W. Bush has fallen to 26 percent approval, a level unseen since Richard Nixon was driven from office in the Watergate summer of '74. Four in five think the nation is on the wrong course.

Yet, Obama has only a six-point lead in an averaging of national polls. While he has moved ahead in Ohio, Florida, North Carolina and Virginia, one senses America is not so much rallying to him as running away from a Republican brand that is now on the same shelf with Chinese baby formula.

Obama still has not closed the sale. He has overtaken McCain not because of any brilliant campaign he has conducted but because of the dreadful news pouring out of Wall Street. McCain and Palin are being dragged down by Dow Jones, not Barack Obama.

As of today, the country is not so much voting for Barack and the Democrats as it is preparing to vote against the Republicans.

Consider: The Congress, whose Democratic ranks the nation is getting ready to enlarge -- the Congress led by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid -- has an approval rating half that of Bush.

Indeed, looking back on the Year of Barack, 2008, it is clear he has never closed the sale, either with the people or his own party.

After he came off the blocks with a startling triumph in Iowa and ran up a dozen straight primary and caucus victories in February, arrived the spring when Hillary, though Obama's media auxiliary was ordering her to get out, defeated him in Texas, crushed him in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and humiliated him in West Virginia and Kentucky.

Each time the voters take a long second look at Barack, their positive first impressions seem to dissipate. Barack is a weak closer.

Herein lies McCain's hope. The country wants change, but it has not concluded it wants Obama. But if John McCain cannot raise grave doubts about his agenda, his associates, his record, his character, his fitness to be president, Obama is going to win by default.

Obama has succeeded in the debates by playing defense. By his cool demeanor and persona, he has diminished apprehensions about an Obama presidency. There is no evidence of surging enthusiasm.

The Obama media are well aware of Obama's Achilles' heel, his great vulnerability, the doubts about him that still exist in the public mind. That is why they are near hysterical about Palin's ripping of Obama for "palling around" with "domestic terrorists" like William Ayres, the 1960s and 1970s Weatherman radical who conspired to bomb the Capitol and Pentagon and was quoted the morning of 9-11 as saying he wished he had set off more bombs.

The mainstream media call this irrelevant, as it was so long ago.

Yet, can one imagine how the media would have reacted had they learned that a GOP presidential nominee was introduced to politics and worked in harness with a KKK bomber of black churches in the 1960s, who was quoted the morning of Oklahoma City as saying he wished he had planted more bombs?

As McCain is an establishment man on illegal aliens, NAFTA and Wall Street bailouts, uneasy with social issues like affirmative action and abortion, he lacks the full panoply of weapons that successful Republicans like Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Bush II used to win two terms. He seems to confine himself to the limited arsenal Gerald Ford, Bush 1 and Bob Dole employed when they went down to defeat.

This election is not over. Yet, even if McCain gets a bit of luck, a dead cat bounce on Wall Street, he must persuade the nation Obama is an unacceptable occupant of the White House if he is to win.

Palin appears ready to take the heat to make that case. But McCain seems ambivalent to the point of being bipolar on whether he wants to take responsibility for peeling the hide off Barack Obama.

Perhaps it comes down to what McCain really thinks about an Obama presidency, and how he wants to be remembered by history.

[org.whodat]

The nation's largest savings and loan, Washington Mutual, and largest insurance company, AIG, have gone belly up,

The house of fraud, AIG was not and never was an insurance company.

[SumProVita]

Actually....I honestly believe that, at his point, if all true conservatives prayed and fasted for it...McCain would INDEED win.

[Kackikat]

Tell that idiot that God will decide this election, and who is going to be elected....as for all that other crap...give me a break.

[jokyfo]

Once the markets settle out McCain will rise. Keep speading the optimism. This is a 4-5 point race right now, three weeks is a lifetime.

[nathanbedford]

We might have been able to win in 2008 if we had listened to Pat Buchanan when he made his brilliant speech at the convention in 1992 and declared that America was in a cultural war.

We turned a deaf ear because was not politically correct about Israel. Pat has been right about an awful lot of things which we have dismissed to our sorrow.

[Cheryllynn]

Without the fraud? Yes.

[svcw]

Of course. If JM never opens his mouth again and lets Palin do all the campaigning.

[wagglebee]

Once the markets settle out McCain will rise. Keep speading the optimism. This is a 4-5 point race right now, three weeks is a lifetime.

Exactly, this is like being down by a field goal at the end of the first quarter.

[hiredhand]

I can't take this crap anymore. First, we take mountains of shit for telling everybody that we'll vote independent on account of McCain being a best of the worst (and would have done it too!), and then (for whatever reason) he chooses Gov. Sarah Palin as his VP. Then we all decide to vote for her and hold our nose and vote for him, and now messages like this one (no offense meant to you "chet 99"!) keep stacking up around here.

I'm not going to be here much until after the election.

I'll leave (for awhile) with saying that John McCain should be very grateful to Gov. Sarah Palin because she's the only reason we're voting for his sorry ass!

The D.U. must read threads like this and laugh at us.

[RC2]

I have no doubt that McCain can still win. If all conservatives get together and some others from other parties start to see who Obama really is.....sure he can win. Hey.....we may get mad at McCain from time to time but that’s no reason to let Obama walk away with this thing.

[kbennkc]

Perhaps it comes down to what McCain really thinks about an Obama presidency, and how he wants to be remembered by history.

This reasoning would explain why Mav said people need not fear an Obambi presidency .

[Natchez Hawk]

Once again Pat’s analysis is stellar.

[The Great RJ]

If this financial mess hadn't hit McCain would have a comfortable lead and likely a landslide victory. Now Obama’s mantra of change is suckering in voters who are mad about Washington. Do you vote for the old guy or the young dynamic guy promising change? Unless McCain can convince the voters that Obama is not trustworthy he will lose the election. It will take more than the bland boring performance at the last debate to do that.

[Mr Rogers]

In my dream last night, Biden stepped down from the ticket...and was replaced by McCain, leaving Palin to run for President.

It was a sweet dream while it lasted.

McCain COULD win, if he would tie this mess around Obama’s neck, point out that Obama’s spending will require taxes and drag the economy down even further, and that Obama seems to associate with nothing BUT anti-American haters.

I’m thinking the odds are against us, my friend...

[tips up]

McCain supporters I talk to are all pessimistic.

The Dems are stealing the election through ACORN and most voters have no idea what an Obama presidency would mean.

Oh well...

[autumnraine]

You’re right, it was a group of insurance companies.

[Jacquerie]

Yeah, wasn’t that when he declared that the “barbarians were at the gate”?

[org.whodat]

Actually you are mostly correct, the old man needs to start saying how many and who he will put in jail for this mess, ceo’s and politicians.

[jonrick46]

An Obama presidency would sink the economy even further. He has played in the Marxist sandbox too long, and does not understand the free market system.

McCain needs to define the problem in free market terms and propose solutions best for the free market. He has to assure Americans that his plan for a solution is the only one for America.

[Squantos]

Actually we are winning....... I predict a landslide for Palin and McWhats his name.

Obama is a fabrication of the Socialist MSM and their handlers. Real Americans are on to their game.

Don’t worry be happy !........:o)

[DiogenesLaertius]

McCain has post-tramautic shock syndrome from his defeat at Bush’s hand in 2000. He refuses to do what Bush did to him in 2000 and negatively campaign.

Unfortunately, while Bush’s slams against McCain were lies, they weren’t against Kerry in 2004 and especially against Obama now in 2008. McCain’s old brain can’t seem to wrap his mind around the facts and instead resorts to catchphrases like “bipartisanship” and “maverick.”

[ProCivitas]

"As McCain is an establishment man on illegal aliens, NAFTA and Wall Street bailouts, uneasy with social issues like affirmative action and abortion, he lacks the full panoply of weapons that successful Republicans like Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Bush II used to win two terms. He seems to confine himself to the limited arsenal Gerald Ford, Bush 1 and Bob Dole employed when they went down to defeat."

Excellent piece by Buchanan as usual. And the above quote presents most of this campaign in a nutshell.

[jeepers creepers]

“Yet, even if McCain gets a bit of luck, a dead cat bounce on Wall Street, he must persuade the nation Obama is an unacceptable occupant of the White House if he is to win.”

Well, that’s exactly what McCain doesn’t seem to be willing to do, “I have to tell you. Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don’t have to be scared of as president of the United States”.

[Mad Dawg]

Can McCain Still Win?

Yes.

[org.whodat]

You’re right, it was a group of insurance companies.

No, Aig took some of it's loot and bought a couple of insurance companies, they are subsidiaries. AIG is not and never was an insurance company and has never been licensed in the united states as an insurance company.

[nathanbedford]

Like Huckleberry Finn, I disremember. But it was a hell of a speech and, alas, eerily predictive.

[org.whodat]

BINGO.

[hiredhand]

Don’t worry be happy !........:o)

I'm actually pretty happy! See me SMILE?! :-)

I just get weary of this gloom and doom sort of junk.

:-)

[ex-snook]

"Herein lies McCain's hope. The country wants change, but it has not concluded it wants Obama. But if John McCain cannot raise grave doubts about his agenda, his associates, his record, his character, his fitness to be president, Obama is going to win by default."

Sorry Pat, McCain has to show more than throwing the kitchen sink or even the toilet against Obama. The polls indicate that that kind of campaigning has gotten nowhere with independents. No matter how bad Obama is, McCain is regarded as worse.

McCain can still win if he recognizes that Bush's Iraq and economic stewardship have put the country on the wrong track. Voters want a new direction, they are not interested in a change of drivers.

[LadyPilgrim]

You know......I believe that also. ;-)

The msm is all about “propaganda’.
When we start singing the same words loud enough and often enough and long enough, maybe some things will change.

Until we condservatives get on the same page.....sadly......it’ll be status quo.

[Squantos]

A cannibal was walking through the jungle and
came upon a restaurant operated by a fellow cannibal. Feeling somewhat hungry, he sat down and looked over the menu...

Tourist: $5
Broiled Missionary: $10.00
Fried Explorer: $15.00
Baked Democrat or Grilled Republican:
$100.00

The cannibal called the waiter over and asked,...’Why such a price difference for the Politicians?’

The cook replied, ‘Have you ever tried to
clean one?

They’re so full of sh*t, it takes all morning.’

[Illinois Rep]

Honor is not being the sacrificial lamb for a runaway liberal landslide.

Honor is fighting to stop the liberal landslide...to tell the people exactly who Obama is—it’s not racist to point out this son of a white woman is too liberal...has too many radical friends...and hates America as it is and defeat Barack Obama for the better good of America.

Honor Senator McCain is deciding what war is worth fighting for. This is the only war that matters right now...so fight it with overwhelming power and you will win.

Being timid in his face will mean the defeat of your candidacy and the defeat of America.

[Jeff Head]

Yes he can.

Obama's rising poll numbers are, IMHO, manufactured and represent push polls (for the most part when you look at sampling data) by the MSM to offest the growing concern about his associations and intent.

Obama and his cronies in ACORN, the DNC, and the MSM are wholly corrupt and desperate to steal the election if they cannot win it through intimidation and tomfoolery.

Obama has been directly tied and involved with ACORN, for a long time, and through his instrumentality we are seeing our free market and our voting process subverted and deconstructed before our very eyes.

But there is hope, despite what the push polls are saying, and Obama and his campaign and the MSM all know it, and fear it.

I'M VOTING FOR SARAH

[skeeter]

Reading a transcript of PBJ's '92 speech today, in hindsight I can't believe the GOP disassociated themselves from it.

Buncha poltroons.

[Squantos]

Not that I take stock in polls that are always oversampled in favor of..........

The 00 and 04 polls showed AlGore and Scary Kerry in the lead as well.

Middle America WILL vote and the sheeple will believe the polls and stay confident, lazy and away from the ballot box IMO.

Stay safe and VOTE !

[GBA]

"He seems to confine himself to the limited arsenal Gerald Ford, Bush 1 and Bob Dole employed when they went down to defeat."

And with less than half the enthusiasm as any of the three. And that's the part that bothers me the most. Did he not campaign hard to be the nominee? Did he not claim he was going to fight for us at the convention? I'll have to dig out my Art of War and see if this type of fighting is mentioned. As a stranger in a strange land watching him, it looks to me like his mission was to win the nomination and then lose to 0bama while taking down one of the few rising Republican stars with him.

[AHerald]

We might have been able to win in 2008

Are you reporting from the future? In my timezone the election is more than three weeks away.

Contrary to popular opinion. This ain't over.

[Current Occupant]

it looks to me like his mission was to win the nomination and then lose to 0bama while taking down one of the few rising Republican stars with him.

Point, I was thinking exactly the same thing.

[nathanbedford]

Buchanan was fighting for the soul of the Republican Party in 1992 and George Bush won.

[Rapunzel]

I agree with you!!! Landslide even with the MSM promoting and shoving Obama down your throats.

Notice that the media does not make Obama answer any tough questions but will not give McCain/Palin a break on anything. MSM knows McCain/Palin is sweeping this country like a wildfire and they can't seem to stop it..

Keep up the work in talking to people about what Obama actually stands for and it ain't good for the country!!

[The Sons of Liberty]

I'm wondering if McCain wants to win.

[nathanbedford]

Turn off the lights, the party is over.

But I will say this, when the history of this election is written by political scientists I believe they will conclude that John McCain's election was lost by George Bush.

[AHerald]

Unfortunately, while Bush’s slams against McCain were lies

These "lies" by Bush against McCain, please name them.

[skeeter]

Perhaps simply winning the party's nomination has become the end-all goal of aging republican politicians.

Who wants the hassle of leading the nation when there's that great retirement plan to enjoy.

[Squantos]

Oh yes ....I do on a daily basis ....bought some shirts this AM and all at the check out counter were voting McPalin. Had dinner at local diner and all were for McPalin. Everyone shy of a few idgits at work are backing McPalin. They are race baiting sorts so it to be expected.

Smart folks know what lowering my taxes and raising corporate taxes will do to us. 40% of America pays taxes. When Obama Bin Biden lowers my taxes and raises corporate taxes 100% of Americans will pay taxes thru higher costs passed on to a 10 year old girl paying for a ice cream cone !

Obama’s sh*t’n shineola show ain’t selling in real world.....

You stay safe !!

[patriot08]

WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO DRAG HIM OVER THE LINE KICKING AND SCREAMING IF WE TRY.

CALLING OBAMA A RESPECTABLE FAMILY MAN THAT WE NEED NOT FEAR IS OUTRAGEOUS!

McCAIN TAKING THE ABUSE AND INSULTS FROM OBAMA AND REFUSING TO FIGHT BACK IS OUTRAGEOUS!

WE’RE NOT TURNING THE WHITE HOUSE KEYS OVER TO BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA- NOT IF WE ON FR, RUSH, HANNITY AND FOX HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT!

FReep McCAIN/ MSM OUT.

HOW LONG CAN THEY IGNORE A MILLION EMAILS??

.

McCain is losing this campaign because he refuses to fight Obama and his lies, and dirty tactics such as ACORN voter fraud. He’s just been rolling over (or bending over, I should say) and accepting the abuse heaped upon him- and expecially Sarah Palin.
The anemic attempts by the McCain camp to fight back within the last few days just ain’t gonna get it.
He should have been hitting Obama back hard months ago.
He needs to get out there every day and FIGHT BACK.
Email Republican headquarters/McCain.

FReep ‘EM OUT!

CAN THEY IGNORE A MILLION EMAILS?

REMIND McCAIN THAT HE HAS AN OBLIGATION AS OUR CANDIDATE TO FIGHT BACK!
To h*ll with bipartisian BS!
To h*ll with PC!
To h*ll with ‘conducting a respectful campaign’as McCain has said, and vowed to do.

RESPECTFUL CAMPAIGNING WENT STRAIGHT OUT THE WINDOW WITH OBAMA’S NASTY, BRUTAL COMMENTS SUCH AS;
‘lipstick on a pig’ and ‘You can wrap AN OLD FISH in a piece of paper called change. It’s still going to stink after eight years.’

Take off the gloves, McCain!

Hit the Marxist/Muslim hard with Ayers, Acorn, Violation of Logan Act, abortion, 2nd admendment, Campaigning for Odinga!!
Get off the d*mned economy issue. State that Obama/Democrats/ACORN caused this meltdown. State McCain offered a proposal to avert the meltdown and GET OFF IT.
Obama is counting on keeping this going to take the spotlight off his sordid past and dirty dealings!
NOTHING is more important than waking America up to this Marxist/Muslim!! DO IT. EXPOSE HIM!

FReep ‘EM!!!!

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[Dream Warrior]

Can McCain win? NO!

But Sarah can and we can, never give up... that what winners are made of. We’ll pull McCain across the finish line!

[Rapunzel]

I am also talking to people whereever I go. This morning in the grocery when I came out of the store, an elderly man with a Shriner's vest and Ambassador's hat was collecting donations for the crippled children and I struck up a conversation with him so he would know that McCain is NOT taking his medicare and social security away from him.

He was an astute gentleman and was computer literate and definitely voting for McCain.

The ole guy says to me that Obama is not a citizen and not fit to be President of the USA. I was astounded that he knew!

I took out one of my biz cards and wrote FR web addy for him on the back.

[businessprofessor]

McCain needs to define the problem in free market terms and propose solutions best for the free market. He has to assure Americans that his plan for a solution is the only one for America.

McCain is incapable of framing the debate. He has missed so many opportunities in the debates. The minute BHO opened on big oil, I would have attacked him without stop. A strong conservative with a reasonable understanding of economics could have had BHO stumbling all night. All McCain can say is that he will stop pork spending. I am not sure it matters now. Even Ronald Reagan could not stop this rat tsunami.

The public is convinced that big government is the solution. Rats will win every time on big government solutions. The public has no idea about the coming train wreck. All the public knows is that someone needs to help them.