[estrogen]

I couldn’t agree more....McCain is on the Today show today and he really doesn’t stand for anything a social conservative believes in....he is wrong on drilling in Anwar, he wants alternative energy. He doesn’t come off well at all......the debates should be interesting.

[BufordP]

Vote McCAIN!

He Sucks Less!

[Molly Pitcher]

Well, as a Buckeye working in the trenches '00, '04,'06, it doesn't surprise me to read this.

The only thing I can think of to say is this: if Obama becomes president, the social issues so many of us care about will become a moot point as our very survival as a country becomes the paramount question.

[dforest]

McCain and the dolts at the top of the GOP ladder have successfully destroyed the party. Every time he opens that mouth with the little mealy voice he causes more damage.

Face it, the man is a democrat and I have no reason to vote for him.

The party is over.

[LS]

I got my first pitch from the Mont. County chairman for McCain. I replied that I would not work for McCain, and could not support him. It's not just that he's a RINO---I could bring myself to work for the "right" RINO---but McCain utterly detests me and what I stand for. At least Rudy did everything he could to mollify conservatives, went to all the conservative meetings, met with all the ministers, tried to find points of agreement. McCain seems to want to find points of difference.

Fine. I walked streets and worked polls for Bush in 2004, for Blackwell in 2006. Not for Juan.

[WarEagle]

Sometimes I wonder about this man. He thinks he can win without the voters who elected Nixon, Reagan, and the Bushes?

GW nearly lost in 2000 because the evangelicals stayed home. If both stay home, and it's beginning to look like we will, this guy is so screwed. And so are we.

Thanks loads, GOP.

[bcsco]

Many political analysts say the strategy played a large role in Bush's reelection. Bush won Ohio, for example, by about 120,000 votes -- roughly equal to the combined margins of victory in the GOP-leaning communities around Cincinnati, where the voter-identification plan was used heavily.

This time, Republican officials say, they are preparing to use these "data mining" techniques to reach voters, but will point the strategy at an additional segment of the electorate: the independent and swing voters whom Obama is targeting too.

For McCain, the challenge is to win enough of these voters to make up for a potential lack of passion among conservatives, and he is betting that his image as an independent and his moderate views on issues such as global warming will help. McCain is positioned to "find a new layer of voters . . . that's probably not available to the average Republican," said Mike DuHaime, a McCain campaign advisor.

In Ohio, McCain will target blue-collar workers outside Cleveland and Youngstown, and in the state's Appalachian counties in the southeast, who turned their backs on Obama in his primary contest with Hillary Rodham Clinton.

GOP officials also say that new voter-identification technology will help them make up for any falloff in conservative zeal.

Well, there's McCain's strategy in a nutshell, and it meshes with what I've been saying. He's not interested in the conservative vote. He's taking the approach "Who ya gonna vote for?" with us and is concentrating on the undecided vote and those democrats disaffected because of Obama.

So, you McCain supporters, tell me again why I should vote for a guy who doesn't give a damn about me.

[Grunthor]

“He says he tried but failed to make the McCain team understand how much work remained to overcome the skepticism of social conservatives.”

It’s not just socons. If you are any kind of conservative, the McJackass camp has NOTHING but contempt for you. They hate your guts. You embarrassed Juan at the amnesty party last year and NOW YOU ARE GOING TO PAY!

[Salvation]

For later.