[horse_doc]

Perhaps reality will set in with McCain as well.

Grudging support won't win this election - that just means we'll all vote against Obama, which just won't do the trick..

Enthusiastic support means bumper stickers, yard signs, contributions, phone banks, walking neighborhoods, and GOTV efforts. And victory. If McCain wants that, then he's got to show leadership, and give me something to get enthusiastic about.

One more hint - McCain's precious Independents won't give money, they won't put up a yard sign, they won't put a bumper sticker on their Prius, they won't work work phone banks, and they won't volunteer to GOTV. They won't do these things because they are too "independent" to associate with an organized political party.

And when these things don't happen, McCain will have exactly one person to blame.

[LostInBayport]

Enthusiastic support means bumper stickers, yard signs, contributions, phone banks, walking neighborhoods, and GOTV efforts. And victory. If McCain wants that, then he's got to show leadership, and give me something to get enthusiastic about.

Excellent post...bears repeating...

McCain is doing the opposite of what you advise. He's flipping the bird to what could be his base (conservatives) and pursuing voters who have little to no interest in adhering themselves to a political party, much less actively campaigning for one. That is, when he's not busy sucking up to the left.

This story is going to typify McCain's support...grudging, tepid, resigned and casual. If he keeps going out talking about the 'immigration problem' as opposed to the illegal immigration problem, keeps refusing to advocate drilling for oil here at home and keeps making overtures to the global warming alarmists...well, it will be all I can do to force myself to vote for the dope, never mind show any enthusiasm for him.

[Fiji Hill]

Perhaps reality will set in with McCain as well. Grudging support won't win this election - that just means we'll all vote against Obama, which just won't do the trick..
Enthusiastic support means bumper stickers, yard signs, contributions, phone banks, walking neighborhoods, and GOTV efforts. And victory. If McCain wants that, then he's got to show leadership, and give me something to get enthusiastic about.

I have yet to see a single McCain bumper sticker. If McCain doesn't fire up the traditional base of the GOP, he'll go the way of Alf Landon, Wendell Willkie, and Tom Dewey.

[E. Cartman]

Grudging support won't win this election - that just means we'll all vote against Obama, which just won't do the trick.

And if he does win, with the outright opprobrium toward him coming even from his loyalest supporters, MacCain will be as impotent as Richard Simmons in a Sultan's harem.