McCain Camp Planning to Widen the Battlefield

New York Times ^ | April 19, 2008 | MICHAEL COOPER

[ansel12]

I kind of dropped out of this race, but you have to wonder, what if he had money? Who knows what kind of victory he could accomplish.

My concern is the down ticket.

[greedo]

and has beefed up its communications division

Hatch writes song for McCain's campaign

[normy]

With what the Dems have to offer, I wouldn't be surprised to see McCain win everything west of NY except Illinois.

[LS]

Well, McCain’s campaign mgr. here in OH is . . . Mike DeWine. I thought only the Dems tabbed losers for important jobs.

[normy]

I wouldn't want to start using that wonderful tactic very often but i believe McCain will win because the Dems are weak, not because he is strong.

[prairiebreeze]

when voters learn more about some of Mr. McCain’s positions, like his support for the Iraq war and his opposition to abortion rights,

My two yellow-dog democrat friends that I've known for decades have no objection to McCain's stance on Iraq. Their biggest complaint with him is that he's pro-life but they plan to vote for him.

[Will88]

McCain could well win the biggest victory in many years, and it will have almost nothing to do with him. Just as Obama is on the verge of winning the nomination, the protective veil held over him by the MSM has begun to fall away. So the Dems. will likely have very damaged goods as their candidate.

With Obama’s fall from the pedestal he never belonged on, and some number who won’t vote for the black guy, the Dems. could have their weakest candidate since Dukakis. Then, if he wins a sizable victory, McCain will attribute it all to his “humane” stance on illegal aliens and his willingness to reach across the aisle.

[MARTIAL MONK]

... i believe McCain will win because the Dems are weak, not because he is strong.

Kinda like how we beat Carter?

[Dilbert56]

A friend of mine, who is a dyed-in-the-wool New England liberal once said of McCain: "I'm no Republican but a lot of what that guy says makes sense." Given a choice between a middle of the road curmudgeon and a glib, untested empty suit like Obama, a lot of moderate Democrats will go with McCain.

The old folks will go with McCain and the old folks vote. The yutes vote when they get excited. The excitment may be gone by November. Let two national polls show McCain with a lead and the Obama bubble will pop.

[Grunthor]

“McCain Camp Planning to Widen the Battlefield

Senator John McCain’s political advisers said Friday that they believed his potential appeal to independents could make him competitive in up to two dozen tossup states, twice as many as Republicans seriously contested in the 2004 presidential race.”

IOW hold on to your backs, he’s moving left.

[epow]

IOW hold on to your backs, he’s moving left.

He will have to move left to try to pick up enough votes from the middle to offset the votes he will lose from the right.

That seems to be the GOP strategy now, PO the evangelical right by nominating a "moderate" and then cater to the mushy middle voters to make up for the loss. I don't think it will work, and even if it does what's the point of electing someone who isn't substantially different from the left on so many issues?

I would rather have McCain in office than any Democrat I can name just on the national defense issue alone, but on many social issues he's more in sync with liberal Democrats than he is with me. At some point between now and November I have to decide whether to vote for McCain or a 3rd party, and right now it's still a tossup. The thought of either Democrat in that office is scary, but if we elect McCain it may mean that in all future primaries we go back to the pre- Reagan years when moderate RINOs were all we had to choose from.

[SoConPubbie]

... i believe McCain will win because the Dems are weak, not because he is strong.

Kinda like how we beat Carter?

You couldn't be more wrong!

We won because we actually had a candidate that was a conservative and could show a stark difference on ALL positions of importance to a conservative.

McAmnesty is no Reagan and he is definitely no conservative.


McCain's History:

1. Gang of Fourteen (Kept some of President Bush's best judges from being presented for a vote)
2. McCain-Fiengold (Assault on Free Speech and Pro-Life groups and Gun-rights groups)
3. McCain-Kennedy (Amnesty for criminal Illegal Aliens)
4. McCain-Lieberman (50 cents a gallon tax)
5. Total support for global warming scam, including carbo cap and trade system.
6. Support for embryonic stem cell research (Murder of unborn babies).
7. Leaked top-secret information concerning CIA prisons in Europe
8. Wants to close Gitmo and give Terrorists access to our legal system.
9. F grade from Gun-Owners of America.
10. C- grade from NRA.
11. 60% score from American Conservative Union in 2006
12. Wants to bail out sub-prime losers (many of which are either illegal aliens or lied on thier applications) with US tax money.
13. Voted against President Bush's tax cuts (called them tax-cuts for the rich)
14. Flirted with the idea of crossing over to the Dems in 2004.

[Grunthor]

For me, if he picks a hardline conservative...I vote for the ticket and hope for the best.

If he does what Juan usually does and chooses the liberal side then I am voting LP or CP and won’t feel bad at all watching that backstabbing creep lose.

[Mogollon]

For me, if he picks a hardline conservative...I vote for the ticket and hope for the best.

My thoughts also. It's not much but he had better throw us a bone, otherwise he's on his own.

[Norman Bates]

The McCain List.
Common sense conservatism

[festus]

The moderates and solid support from the democrat base might be enough to get McCain elected.

[SoConPubbie]

Common sense conservatism

Ha Ha Ha!

[Lancey Howard]

The campaign is working to expand Mr. McCain’s electoral map by employing an unusual, decentralized structure in which it will dispatch 11 regional campaign managers across the country...

Ahhhhh... This is excellent strategy.

McCain can "go moderate" in blue states with pandering crap about "global warming" and closing Gitmo, etc., and "talk tough" in red states about tax cuts and the war on terror, etc. - - and the blue states will never know what was said in the red states and vice versa.

Ingenious.

[lonestar]

A yellow dog I know is emailing Obama jokes.