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What's going on at the McCain campaign?

Posted on 09/18/2008 9:13:38 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55

For months on end McCain has been hammering Obama on anything they could get their hands on.

Obama's celebrity status, gaffes, lipstick on a pig, etc.

And for months McCain gained and kept a good leading edge in the polls.

Suddenly after the lipstick on a pig comment.. I see McCain's campaign going soft!

NO ads on Obama trying to negotiate for the US Government? They put out a statement.

And McCain has allowed Obama/Biden to take the economic issue. No ads on all of the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac advisors on Obama's staff?

We've let a several news cycles go by and McCain has MISSED several points he could have attacked on!!

Is it money? What's the deal? McCain stopped attacking and Obama started gaining ground. I see it in the latest Rasmussen poll.


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To: ConservativeMan55
Keeping his powder dry...IMO. Lots of time between now and November. A lot can happen... Debates, Phillies win World Series. Eagles go 8-0. Flyers season starts. Markets crash. Stuff like that.

People right now either know who they are going to vote for or they are flakes. And flakes vote on their opinions they formed thirty seconds ago. If those people make up the 10% of the vote that keep shifting around in the polls then McCain doesn't need to reach out at them now he needs them in late October after the debates. McCain is wise to save his money for those folks.

BTW our local WPHT morning “conservative” Michael Smerconich is one of them. Douche Bag! Did I say the Phillies win the World Series?

41 posted on 09/18/2008 9:31:20 AM PDT by Pharmer (How am I supposed to rule the world when I surrounded by freakin liberal idiots!)
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To: ConservativeMan55

I was listening to Laura Ingraham’s evening radio show around 11PM last night and I think she said McCain came out and tied Obama to Fannie Mae and so on, but I haven’t seen any video of it.


42 posted on 09/18/2008 9:31:20 AM PDT by library user
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To: ConservativeMan55

He just now directly connected The Zero with Fannie & Freddie.
Currently expounding upon the connection, ad librium.


43 posted on 09/18/2008 9:31:27 AM PDT by Salamander (Destroy America! Vote Obama, 08!)
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To: library user
I would not wait! The time is now!

I agree. Let the MSM howl with outrage that McCain dares to talk bad about the Messiah. Get the truth out, John, and let them howl!

You can talk about reform all you want, but too many people only respond to simple sound bites. Reform is an abstract concept. So are hope and change, as a matter of fact. You have to get down in the trenches and tell it like it is!

Oh yeah! McCain is talking about Obama taking money from Fannie Mae now! Go John!

44 posted on 09/18/2008 9:31:51 AM PDT by JustaCowgirl (The left are at the KIDS TABLE throwing turkey giblets!!! (Dennis Miller))
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To: NavyCanDo

Here he goes after Obama/Fannie Mae NOW. in Cedar Radids live.


45 posted on 09/18/2008 9:31:57 AM PDT by proud2beconservativeinNJ ("In God We Trust")
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To: ConservativeMan55
Shifts in momentum happen all the time during Presidential campaigns. We are in the post convention phase and the race has tightened. In politics, there are times to go on offense and there are times when you just sit back and watch your opponents implode.

Right now Obama and his liberal pals are running wild, lashing out hoping to damage McCain and Palin with anything and everything they can think of. Its called desperation.

46 posted on 09/18/2008 9:32:05 AM PDT by Reagan Man (McCain Earned My Vote --- With Palin on the ticket, MOST conservatives should be satisfied.)
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To: NavyCanDo

McC just tied Zero’s neck to Fannie/Freddie meltdown with a good strong rope.


47 posted on 09/18/2008 9:32:54 AM PDT by Salamander (Destroy America! Vote Obama, 08!)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Cause Lehman, Bear Stears, Morgan Stanley and others leveraged themselves to such an insane degree that if the economy stumbled their companies would teeter and create a potential domino effect that effects everyone. Their greed is a piece of the puzzle, so is the Congress’ negligence at doing its job. In order for any attack to work, McCain has to go Maverick and attack both parties as being complicit as well as Wall Street.


48 posted on 09/18/2008 9:33:31 AM PDT by brooklynlou
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To: ConservativeMan55

This thread should be emailed to the McCain campaign.


49 posted on 09/18/2008 9:33:45 AM PDT by teletech (Friends don't let friends vote DemocRAT)
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To: ConservativeMan55

I think it’s part of the strategy. Let Obama do himself in. Let him spend his money in states he didn’t think he’d have to. Let Obama go on the attack while McCain rises above it and looks more Presidential. As Palin said in her interview last night: the American people are not stupid - they know what’s going on. If you noticed in the last round of ads from McCain, the media played it up as “back and forth” attacks and tried to deligitimze McCain’s ads. Let him save the money and go in for the kill later.


50 posted on 09/18/2008 9:34:04 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: Nervous Tick

You may be right!


51 posted on 09/18/2008 9:34:19 AM PDT by JennysCool (A man who served his country well vs. a walking Che poster. Is it really that tough a choice?)
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To: Salamander

McCain is starting to kick ass, and is calling for the head of the SEC.

He’s triangulating, and is calling for a new RTC!

GOOD MOVE, JOHNNIE MAC! Call for a mortgage version of the RTC!!!

YES, YES, YES!!!!

NOW CHALLENGE BUSH TO KEEP CONGRESS IN SESSION LIKE TRUMAN IN ‘48!!!

Best,

Chris


52 posted on 09/18/2008 9:34:26 AM PDT by section9 (Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "Jesus is Coming. Everybody look busy...")
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To: ConservativeMan55
After the lipstick on a pig thing I think the campaign got scared.

ROFLOL!!......Yeah, that's it.

53 posted on 09/18/2008 9:35:28 AM PDT by Osage Orange (We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. - Obama)
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To: Blue Turtle
MICHELLE OBAMA - where is she?

She was in Charlottesville yesterday.

ML/NJ

54 posted on 09/18/2008 9:35:54 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: Osage Orange

Explain to me then... why did we not see ANY ad on the Obama Iraq story?


55 posted on 09/18/2008 9:36:39 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (Obama is the Democrats guy. They bought the ticket, now they must take the ride.)
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To: JustaCowgirl

Good! McCain coming up with some specific proposals.

And he’s telling truth about ‘Obama’s bosses’. He needs to name names. Pelosi and Reed are Obama’s bosses! Hang them around his neck, John!


56 posted on 09/18/2008 9:37:06 AM PDT by JustaCowgirl (The left are at the KIDS TABLE throwing turkey giblets!!! (Dennis Miller))
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To: section9

Maybe McCain’s finally “all out of bubblegum”.....:)


57 posted on 09/18/2008 9:37:24 AM PDT by Salamander (Destroy America! Vote Obama, 08!)
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To: Salamander

...Roddy Piper reference?? :0)


58 posted on 09/18/2008 9:38:05 AM PDT by tatown (How to piss off a liberal: Work hard and be happy!)
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To: proud2beconservativeinNJ
Here he goes after Obama/Fannie Mae NOW. in Cedar Radids live.

He's pounding on them right now? Is he breathing fire? (I hope.)

I'm just now leaving the office. Hope to catch a replay once I get to my quarters in a few.

59 posted on 09/18/2008 9:38:09 AM PDT by Allegra (Hang in there, Houston. I love ya.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

good speech from mccain. that bit about how he predicted the FM problems needs to be out a lot more.


60 posted on 09/18/2008 9:38:11 AM PDT by tsubaki
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