McCain should suspend his campaign (Vanity)

Little House on Unaka | June 7, 2008 | don-o

[don-o]

Today, I am calling for John McCain to immediately suspend all campaigning for the Presidency until Labor Day. Let the full spotlight shine upon Barak Obama.

Give him plenty of room to declare his vision for America and give plenty of space for the hard left America haters to drive it home.

The conservative movement is adrift and sees that its values seemingly have become irrelevant to the Republican Party. We grasp at the straw of hope that McCain will make good judicial appointments and maintain our nation’s military strength.

However, he is not trusted and we end up with the “lesser of two evils” situation, which has thoroughly discussed here and elsewhere. It may be possible than he will govern more conservatively that the current President, who has been a disappointment to conservatives. One can hold out that hope.

The fact is that Obama makes a much prettier package to sell to the sheeple. Some time is going to be needed for the shallowness and vacuity that defines the man to fully emerge for all to see. McCain does himself no favor by a premature engagement with him

So, take the summer off, John. Save your money. See you in September.

[Polybius]

The point is, let McCain step back for awhile and let the Obamanation have all the press.

We can call it the "Giuliani Strategy". Works every time.

The reason that McCain could afford to lie low for the past few months is that the pro-Hillary forces were in full Pit-Bull Attack Mode. If it were not for the pro-Hillary forces, the "clinging to religion" video would never have seen the light of day.

Without a constant pro-Hillary attack on Obama, the liberal news media will be in full Obama Protection Mode.

[El Gato]

He'll look even older in September.

There is that downside. But he'll probably look even older by then if he is out on the hustings, than if he kicks back, gets his ducks in order and comes out on burner in September.

[El Gato]

as Obomba can now move to the center

He does that, and he loses those Hillary voters who might otherwise have gone over to him. He can't afford that. He's got the African American vote in the bag, and they will probably vote in record percentages, just as they did in the primary. But he has to win over Cankles' supporters. He can't do that by moving to the center.

[El Gato]

This presidential election cycle has left me morose. Me too, and several others I know of. Although maybe mad and disgusted would be a better description. I'm especially bitter (and clinging to my guns ;) because I didn't even get a real voice in the primaries. It was all over by the time it got around to Texas. If Texas, and other conservative states, had voted earlier in the cycle, I think the outcome would have been different. (IMHO, it's absolutely crazy not to have a common primary day for the whole country).

I'll be sitting it out for the first time since I started voting

I hope you mean you'll not be voting for President. Down ballot races are still important.

[El Gato]

You left out one equally horrid possibility. He picks Hillary as his VP. He doesn’t make it to election day. RIOT and Hillary gets in on the sympathy vote. The riots provide an excuse for Draconian gun control laws, the Supreme Court be dammed.

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I went through stages, I guess kinda like when someone you love dies. I ran the whole gambit. Denial, anger, disbelief the whole shebang. I'm at acceptance now. Acceptance that I have no candidate to vote for.

I hope you mean you'll not be voting for President. Down ballot races are still important.

Oh, yes, yes, yes. I'll be voting, just not for president. Sorry about that. I should have been more clear. What I should have said is that for the first time I won't be voting for a president.

I'm still trying to figure out how the hell Mcpain won.

(IMHO, it's absolutely crazy not to have a common primary day for the whole country).

I agree. It needs to a single day like in all our other elections. Can you imagine the chaos if all our elections, not just the primary votes were spread out so far?

[Polybius]

.... how incompetent he is, having lost five US aircraft making him a reverse ace.

Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, Germany's highest scoring World War One ace, lost 3 aircraft. The first aircraft he lost was on his first solo flight.

Ernst Udet, Germany's second highest scoring World War One ace, lost 4 aircraft.

"It is not the critic who counts . . . who points out how the strong man stumbled. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again . . . who, at the best, knows in the end the triumphs of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails . . . his place will never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." ..... Theodore Roosevelt

[El Gato]

by the end of August you'll find few touting renewable energy and more than a few greenies with propellars sticking out their rears.

Oh I don't know, feed 'em beans and it would be a great way to harvest renewable energy. Then you can trap the gas after it turns the prop, and burn it in your Greeniemobile.

[El Gato]

I'm still trying to figure out how the hell Mcpain won

When you figure it out, let me know.

[Irish Eyes]

....Meanwhile Rush, Hannity, Coulter, Levin, and many others can do the work he should be, but won't be, doing, pointing out how much worse Obama is.

Many of our voters today have no idea who Rush, Hannity, Coulter, Levin are they get all their news from ABC CBS CNN MSNBC or ET. McCain has to stay in front of the fray and make his case.

[Polybius]

McCain is a weak orator, laying aside his policies and positions.

McCain is a weak Tele-Prompter reader. He does well in town-hall settings, microphone in hand, when he speaks without a script responding to unexpected questions.

Without a script to read, Obama is a stuttering gaffe-machine.

Barack Obama has the potential to embarrass himself every time he speaks without a script. He’s beginning to remind me of the Peter O’Toole character (very closely based on an old and drunken Errol Flynn) in “My Favorite Year.” Aghast upon learning that he would have to get his lines right on “the first take” because he would be on live TV, he declared, “I’m not an actor – I’m a movie star!!” At least the O’Toole character knew his limitations. Obama keeps vamping and veering off script to disastrous effect. This compulsion could someday seriously damage his candidacy - if it hasn’t already.

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And if you figure it out, let me know.

May that will just be one of life's unanswered questions. lol

[El Gato]

The MSM won't be making such distinctions. Heck numbers 4 and 5 had nothing to do with anything he did or did not do. One through three are his though.

Those Germans you cite also shot down a bunch of allied aircraft, making them celebrities. McCain didn't have that opportunity, although the Scooter could have stayed with a Mig for a few rounds, if the opportunity had been there.

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Dang, looks like I'm talking ebonics. Let me try that again.

Maybe that will just be one of life's unanswered questions.

[El Gato]

they get all their news from ABC CBS CNN MSNBC or ET. McCain has to stay in front of the fray and make his case.

But ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and even ET get to edit anything he says, and anything Obama says as well. If what another Vietnam POW called "his famous temper", shows itself in the least little bit, the cameras will be there. Heck they'll be trying to goad him on. Meanwhile if Obama comes out and says that he thinks Osama is a swell guy and someone he could talk too, that will get short shrift from BC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and ET.

And of course being out front gives him more chances to PO the Republican base.

[Irish Eyes]

.....And of course being out front gives him more chances to PO the Republican base.

I am afraid that you are right on that count, but IMHO he must be front and center. He can not (nor can we) allow the media to characterize him.

[Polybius]

The MSM won't be making such distinctions. Heck numbers 4 and 5 had nothing to do with anything he did or did not do. One through three are his though.

Actually, the only people I have ever heard criticize McCain over his aircraft losses have been right here on Free Republic.

They even credit a loss to him in the USS Forrestal tragedy. What did they expect him to do? Put his Star Trek shields up?

Those Germans you cite also shot down a bunch of allied aircraft, making them celebrities. McCain didn't have that opportunity, although the Scooter could have stayed with a Mig for a few rounds, if the opportunity had been there.

Then again, McCain was in attack squadrons and not fighter squadrons.

When Udet was in a bombing squadron, he once screwed up so badly that he was court-martialed for bad judgment and spent 7 days in the brig.

[Polybius]

McCain is a weak orator, laying aside his policies and positions. .... don-o

McCain is a weak Tele-Prompter reader. He does well in town-hall settings, microphone in hand, when he speaks without a script responding to unexpected questions. .... Without a script to read, Obama is a stuttering gaffe-machine. .... Polybius

For example .....

[Grunthor]

“The last thing they’ll want is a big-spending liberal for president when what they’ll desire is a guy who’ll poke holes in the ground and build nuke plants.”

Lemme know when that hole-pokin’ nuke building guy comes along.

[Grunthor]

“Don’t snipe at McCain for trivial reasons.”

Define “trivial.”