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.
Can't tell you...but that's not what I responded to.
You said the campaign was scared.
I think that's not only funny, but intellectually vacant.
Post-partisanship, nothing more.
California suffers the same fate that awaits this nation.
McCain gave a tough speech in Cedar Rapids. Basically accused Barry of being the tool of bosses, sucking up to the corrupt Wall Street crowd. Seems pretty tough to me.
Tomorrow he's coming out with more proposals. Probably a new series of ads and a new stump speech. He will hang this situation all over Barry.
Best to see what transpires. McCain has good people.
He’d walk a fine line with that delivery style of his ideas.
Some “middle road” voters are more squeamish and “sensitive” than we are and might misinterpret his “fire breathing” delivery as the rantings of a “raving, rabid, right-wing lunatic”.
“Fiercly adamant” is a well planned kind of delivery for those who may be too faint of heart to deal with “fire breathing”.
[though I much prefer the latter myself]...:)
No, they can't use any money collected after Sept. 1
The problem is in the word “celebrity.” There are lots and lots of celebrities with talent or substance. Palin is most certainly a celebrity now. So is Rush.
He needs to keep hitting Obama on this until it becomes a story that the MSM can’t ignore. This (and the Iraq story that’s being ignored) is the type of story that could inflict a critcal wound on the Obama campaign.
Excellent strategy. Far better than the out-of-context lipstick-on-a-pig strategy.
Horrible timing on the Obama/Iraq thing. If the Lehman collapse doesn’t happen I think McCain is hitting harder on it. If he was going to town on it it would look like he was trying to change the subject from the economy and give Obama effective new lines of attack.
If you consider this as a pick up basket ball (someone already compared it. I am just extending on it), we are in second quarter. I think Mccain is saving his energy for the 4th quarter (Oct16-Nov 4). By that time, Fed will do something to get the economy back. O’man would have bled all his money in Florida and in PA,MI, WI to defend. He would be literally broke. At that time, Palin will cover O’man one on one and McCain will make some easy lay ups. Biden will call a non-existent time out. Palin will make a technical free throw at the last minute (She actually did it in a match during her play days). I think McCain is leaving O by himself to self-destruct.
He’s not waiting for 4th quarter IMHO, he’s waiting for the debate. In the meantime BHO is scoring some points by making Fannie and Freddie Republican problems but that could come back to haunt him in the debate which is the next time the nation will be watching.
McCain can then use BHO’s own words in front of a national audience to show how BHO is trying to spin this crisis for political gain while he (McCain) is ready to take on both parties for reform and has been trying to do that since 2006.
I liked McCain ad that Obama’s bigger government, higher taxes policies will cast a long shadow on the country and any economic recovery. Thought it was very effective. I just hope when the debate comes up McCain is fired up and calls Obama out as all talk and no substance. O has spent most of his career running for higher office. How is that preparation to be commander in chief?
Awesome post. Agree with Palin-McCain one-two punch on energy and economy. Hope McCain’s people are lurking about!
” Remember the scene in Braveheart where Wallace had the line of pikesmen waiting for the cavalry charge that technically should have easily annihilated them, and kept saying “Hold!” “Hold!” “Hold!” and then, at the very last second when the cavalry could not recover or retreat, they raised their pikes and impaled the whole freaking army like so much shishkabob?”
Good analogy and reminder. Today’s voters have short attention spans, and go for headlines. Only the informed hold their fire until there is no ESCAPE.
Go Johnny M and the Artic Fox.
I agree that forcefully adamant is the right style, sounding like you truly believe what you’re saying. Unfortunately, JM sometimes sounds way too unforceful in his statements, esp. when he’s trying to come across as the grand old patriarch, the wise one.
He also did a certain amount of stumbling through the most important parts of his speech today, which resulted in the impression of uncertainty where he least wanted it. I’m thinking now that some of that might have been due to the mental disruption of the protestors making themselves known (although you couldn’t hear them at that point).
You know when he was at his best? When he started telling the protestors to get their idol Obama to come to town hall meetings and debate him. He was very passionate, very articulate on that.
” You know when he was at his best? When he started telling the protestors to get their idol Obama to come to town hall meetings and debate him. He was very passionate, very articulate on that. “
Good to hear he did that, as that’s the type of talk my wife and I often contribute to our TV viewing...........
I noticed when the campaign started going downhill........
Right when I posted this I knew something was wrong.
They were hitting Obama hard on any and everything. Then for some reason.. it stopped. And he won.
bttt
This is the exact spot when McCain went soft.
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