"Are some of you FReepers going wobbly on me?"
Posted on 10/02/2008 7:54:48 AM PDT by wny
McCain was always a long shot.
He never had the support of the party base and the MSM is clearly in the tank for Obama, they don’t even bother to try to hide it anymore. But after his lunatic preacher’s rants slipped out past the MSM, Obie was weakened, clearly indicated by Clinton’s strong stretch run. I maintain that if Obama was white, the super delegates would have thrown him under the bus with his typical white grandmother. They couldn’t do that without enraging the black vote, which they need 90% of to win.
So with all this, McCain stays within striking distance, 5 to 8% maybe. Then Obama makes a bigger fool of himself with his silly world tour, his faux-presidential seal and his Nuremburg-rally type acceptance speech. Then came the McCain camp’s stroke of brilliance. Sarah Palin. Introducing her the day after Obies speech knocked him off the front page and out of the news cycle. Everybody loved Sarah. The base came back (I’m voting for Sarah!). Suddenly the polls were even. The viciousness of the Obama campaign started to show. The disgusting onslaught against her by the left-demholes and MSM (I repeat myself) generated a backlash to McCains benefit. Suddenly polls show McCain ahead, and it started to look like he could win this thing, despite the most unfavorable electoral environment facing a candidate since Carter sought reelection.
This was McCain’s high-water mark. Then…….they let the demMSM set the agenda. They let them prattle on about how Palin was being hidden from the press to hide her inexperience. And they agree to interviews with Gibson, Couric, etc. Why not just let Howard Dean do the interview? There was no way that was not going to hurt. And they didn’t let Sarah be Sarah, annoying the base that was re-energized. MSM onslaught continues.
Then came the financial mess. Suspending his campaign to come bask to DC and get to work! That worked out well. Nothing was passed, so the narrative is “he couldn’t get it done!’ The dems win. Now some pork-laden POS will pass. And the base will hate it. The dems win again. Andrew Cuomo? So-much for a reenergized base. Granted, the MSM will bash him whatever he does. And if Obama sits under his desk sucking his thumb, the MSM (Obie’s base) will laud his economic brilliance, supported by polls of course. All targeted at the moron-vote.
McCain had his chance and he blew it. In between suspending his campaign and getting to DC, he had the floor. He should have delivered a speech. Short and concise with bullet items. Spell out the problem—Fannie/Freddie, PC loans to the unqualified….. Name names…... Clinton hacks fleecing F&F for millions. Make the Enron analogy. Context the public understands. You might mention these same Clinton hacks are on Obama’s team. Then quote yourself, show the video of yourself calling attention to this pending mess 3 years ago! Then quote and show videos of Dodd, Frank and other dems blowing it off as no-problem. Then maybe a mention that these 2 buffoons have accepted over $100K from F&F to look the other way. Then perhaps mention Obie – in only 3 years – has accepted nearly as much, over $100K. That’s a good set-up for the clean up DC talk.
He could have followed up with press conferences. First one might deal with the fact that the Republicans weren’t the obstacle. If it was such a good bill, the dems could pass it themselves! Then mention how Pelosi sabotaged the first vote and maybe mention that 95 (or whatever) dems voted against it, so the Rs didn’t stop it. Maybe mention why his colleagues voted against it, recommend changes? The next press conference, maybe talk about the millions and millions of unrelated pork and subsidies being put into the new version-dovetails right into his stop-the-pork/earmarks-and-reduce-govt-spending talk. Would this have worked? Maybe not. The MSM would spin it against him no matter what. But go on offense for crying out loud.
Instead, he wanted to be honorable. Above the fray of petty partisan politics. What a fool. This isn’t a 6th grade debating team. The dems are viscous and will do absolutely anything to win. McCain brought a water-pistol to a knife fight. To the dems, no issue is to important to politicize. They absolutely cleaned his clock on this. His numbers are dropping faster than the stock market.
Now McCain is hiding under his desk sucking his thumb. Four years of liberal hell begins Jan 20th.
I keep telling myself the same thing, dubie. I hope that we're right and pray that your prophecy will come to pass.
Bears repeating: MAN UP!
I am not going to flame you. What I have seen on this forum is total and complete defeat. There is a reason to be concerned I will say that.
But, I refuse to jump on the defeat train. I am going out and working with the GOP to get out the vote. You can look at polls all you want and get depressed, but I have not looked at one. Why? Because the last few elections the polls were WRONG!!! It all boils down to getting the people to the polls. We all here have to do this.
So, get off your butts and get out there.
I agree with wny. McCain should have done what wny suggested, He would not have stopped the pork bag from passing, but his speech could have made a difference down the road. At the least, the youtube video would have made a great “I told you so” when the Wall St bailout fails miserably.
Please keep the faith...he has not lost. A month is a long time in politics. Remember the night before Bush/Gore election, the DUI came out? That cost us votes.
No flaming. Great post! But regarding McC, “Honorable, Schmonorable!” I think he’s been in congress so long that he doesn’t want any of the “proletariat” to critize any of our “nobility,” his friends and colleagues. He therefore “plays nice” in public, and we watch the election circle the drain. Again, great post. Please do more.
Dewey defeats Truman? Four weeks is a LONG time. The tenor and face of this campaign could very well change in the next 12 hours.
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I see that the accusations that anyone who declines to blow sunshine up everybody’s butt is a “DUmmie troll” have begun again. Been there, dealt with that, learned to laugh it off.
Dems are actively involved in stealing the election because that’s what they do. Another reason McCain will win.
Well, we pretty much know that California is a lost cause. But that’s no reason to think the rest of us are in the same boat.
This thread is becoming a classic!
suburbia has not spoken.....
typically the stats that they draw on are urbanites, (not trogladites,nor suburbanites) and this will make a huge change
Stats still have to account for the other half of america
The Ooly Thing we have to fear is Obama himself.
Gee Whiz...nobody told me the election was in October this year. I thought we were voting in November.
There is still over a month to go. Where were the polls thirty days ago?
Have you really seen John McCain hiding under his desk sucking his thumb? I didn't think so...
After Gov. Palin decimates Commie Biden in tonight’s debate, everything will turn around. The McCain-Palin ticket will be coasting to victory, and it will be a Republican House and Senate too. We will have one party Republican government for a generation.
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