Posted on 02/28/2008 7:00:23 AM PST by xzins
Will the "Willie Effect" Impact the Election?
Some speculate the controversy could cost McCain the White House
By 700WLW News
Thursday, February 28, 2008
( Cincinnati ) -- Some reports claim the on-going controversy involving 700 WLW talk show host Bill Cunningham (Willie Cunningham) and presidential candidate John McCain has the potential to impact the results of the 2008 election.
Ohio is a key state in the presidential election. For Republicans it is essential that they win as much support as possible in southwest Ohio to counter the strong Democratic party support in the Cleveland area.
Political Science professor Jason Johnson from Hiram College spoke to the Cincinnati Enquirer and told them John McCain needs radio talk show listeners and Willie fans to go his way, "John McCain needs those people if he has any hope of winning in November."
With other national talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity rushing to Willie's defense, it widens the rift between the party's conservative base and John McCain even further, at a time when the Republican party has only recently started to solidify around the likely nominee.
Having read what you said, and what McCain is quoted as saying ... One need not agree with McCain's comments to say that an intellectually honest person wouldn't characterize them as you did.
Sheesh what are you campaigning for, to be the whiniest "true conservative" drama queen on FR.
Sheesh, I'll even make a gold statue for you in the likeness of barbara streisand, and the ceremony can be called the FREEPIES, with you winning the best portrayal of a "true conservAtive", being martyred.
I have no information about McCain's donation status. Why would I answer a question without information?
And other MSM types have described Rush L. as rushing to McCain's defense... obviously none of them have been listening to what he actually says.
By the way, Cunningham is a fool -- not for saying 'Hussein' but for expecting McCain not to stab him in the back at the drop of a hat.
Not so, R9.
I want to know all about the guy. Hussein is no accident, and it is NOT the same as getting the “John” as a middle name. It is hugely different.
Anyone who puts a guy with something like 400 days of experience in upper level government or no gubernatorial experience into the White House is blind and a pawn of the media.
I want to know how Hussein shot to the top.
Cunningham is no more a fool than any other man who’s ever been betrayed. He was trying to work for the team.
Other than that, I agree with you.
“”It was just broadcast on the news that the Tennessee GOP has been TOLD by the National GOP to stop using Barak Hussein Obama’s MIDDLE NAME!””
Wow...
Maybe that little nugget ought to be on it’s own thread?
How does saying that Republicans should not highlight Obama’s middle name hurt the conservative cause? Shouldn’t the conservative cause focus on ISSUES such as Iraq, spending, pro-life, guns and extending the tax cuts (and perhaps racial quotas—Obama opposed the CCRI in Michigan, which passed with strong support) and not place emphasis on the middle name?
It's not "hugely different." It's a name his father picked out. It's not a real issue.
Anyone who puts a guy with something like 400 days of experience in upper level government or no gubernatorial experience into the White House is blind and a pawn of the media.
This is very much true, and it is a HUGE issue -- both for Obama and, to a slightly lesser extent -- to Hillary Clinton. The idea that a rank beginner could be this close to the nomination is a very serious matter, and it deserves serious and sustained attention. It's scary as all get-out.
Nattering on about "Hussein" trivializes the real issues to the point where "experience" becomes is perceived to be as important as his middle name; i.e., not important at all.
That's why I'm so pissed at Cunningham and his ilk. They're hurting, not helping, when they get into irrelevancies.
I want to know how Hussein shot to the top.
Get used to this phrase: President John McCain.
Tinman McCain does not own the Conservatives and if he has any intention of actually winning he better get off his high-horse soon. McCain and the other Rinos, including the ones on FR, need to wake up and quit attacking the Right wing base. You will never win this election otherwise!
I’m even more less inclined to vote for McCain after this incident. It demonstrates that McCain has some serious screws loose.
I’ll have to think about that. There are a lot of places to go with that idea.
Someone pass the hooka pipe, please!
Obviously, he pretends that yes, President Bush lost the “trust of the world”, and I will come in with the credibility that Bush does not have. I will, along with the rest of the world’s gov control the weather and the earth’s temperature because Bush is a polluter and does not care, Bush has committed human rights abuses and I will promise not to torture like him, and on and on.
McCain plainly agrees with the interviewer, and he does not care who knows it, so no need to defend him.
President “BO”
Sure it is, and I gave you a list.
t's because conservatives have neglected -- perhaps even forgotten how -- to do the work needed to remain the driving force of the party. We've become lazy and complacent ... again, and as usual.
When you're being attacked from all angles, the results appear the same as complacency. Don't mistake for a minute, we are under attack from every institution in government, media, corporatism, education... We are under attack as a result of class warfare too.
To press the point, just look at who leads "conservatism" these days. Talk show hosts who can't reason their way out of a hat; and single-issue zealots who denounce anybody who doesn't agree with their position 100%. It's pathetic.
Precisely a result of the forces I noted: money, numbers, and police power. Apparently you can't accept that a superior ideology can be defeated despite all efforts.
...and my plan has to added advantage of being ridiculously easy to implement:) In fact its a real pleasure.
All you gave me was a political mope about how the RNC didn't take conservatives seriously. And whose fault is that? Not the RNC's.... They're just doing politics, as they should. No, the fault lies at the feet of conservatives, who couldn't be bothered to a) get themselves represented properly in the RNC because b) we've handed over the reins of the conservative movement to sloganeers and single-issue splinter groups who cannot agree among themselves.
When you're being attacked from all angles, the results appear the same as complacency. Don't mistake for a minute, we are under attack from every institution in government, media, corporatism, education... We are under attack as a result of class warfare too.
I agree we're under attack. The damning fact, however, is that we've got the easy side of pretty much all of these arguments, and we are unable to effectively present our point. Why? Not because we don't have access to media, but because we misuse the access we've got. I mean, hell -- look at the idiocy on this thread: guys whose idea of "debate" is to try to top one another in finding the best perjorative play on McCain's name. Ridiculous. We're killing ourselves -- the other folks just have to sit back and watch.
Precisely a result of the forces I noted: money, numbers, and police power. Apparently you can't accept that a superior ideology can be defeated despite all efforts.
What "all efforts?" If we allow Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh or James Dobson to be the public face of conservatism, we're screwed by our own efforts. With their shallow shouting as the only standard by which to judge us, why would anybody know we've got "superior ideology?"
“”“our” guy, denouncing OUR President of the United States as not credible, a torturer, a human rights abuser, a polluter of the earth, and damaging to the world.””
“”One need not agree with McCain’s comments to say that an intellectually honest person wouldn’t characterize them as you did.””
Do you consider yourself an intellectually honest person?
If so, can you point to on time in the article that McCain defended our President?
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