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Posted on 08/05/2008 11:38:55 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
John McCain's message machine shifted gears today -- after a week or so of offbeat efforts to annoy and exasperate Barack Obama, the Republican's campaign launched a new bid to distance himself from the titular head of his own party.
A 60-second McCain television ad airing in several of this year's key battleground states seeks to both remind voters of the "maverick" image that gained him national prominence and undercut arguments that he's a President Bush clone.
Indeed, the spot's third sentence offers this starkly negative assessment of the incumbent's second term: "We’re worse off than we were four years ago."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
good move. Bush has made too many mistakes, and has almost single-handedly destroyed the Republican Party,
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If Bush doesn’t jump on this right away, it will destroy his chances for re-election.
Just when I think the posts can’t get any stupider, one like yours comes along...
It is a terrible ad over and above the 4 years thing, which I took as a bash at bush. The whole ad just sucks, IMO. He should stick to ridiculing Obamaosama and quit trying to hype himself.
McCain must buy into that since it's been the media chant for almost eight years.
If your message does not resonate with the establishment media it's muffled (like Silky Pony's problems, or the Stafford Act and Katrina).
Ditto your post.
Just when I though I might be able to vote for him...he’s showing his true colors. He may have differences but you don’t air the family laundry. Even Dems know this.
I wonder if he goes around humming that song...”you are gonna miss me when I’m gone”
I am really worse off now than I was 4 years ago.
Eversince those DemocRATS took over the House in 2006, that really screwed things up.
Nancy Palooka promised to give us a good energy plan when gas was only $2 a gallon. Now it’s over $4 a gallon.
Stupid DemocRATS.
Ditto your ditto and raise you one ;^)
I was about to send a contribution to McCain. Not now.
They could have worded it so the ad sounded like he had empathy for people who are struggling without making it sound like an attack on Bush. The Dems will be doing that plenty. McCain could have said we can do better, America can overcome our current slump, etc.
Line of the Month [Jay Nordlinger]
At the Wall Street Journal, Bill McGurn has written a column that cried out to be written. It says, basically, “McCain, don’t be a weenie about President Bush.” And the last line is probably the line of the month so far: “Mr. McCain seems intent on reassuring skeptics that he’s no George W. Bush. If he loses in November, he’ll prove it.”
It's your right to rant and vote but, in writing in someone other than McCain, you'll be writing out America.
Loyalty requires giving it as well as receiving it. Note that President Bush faced two immediate crises in his first year of his presidency—the dot bomb stock market crash and 911. The President and his Administration succeeded in keeping the homeland free of further attacks and took the war to the enemy in their homes of record—Iraq and Afghanistan. To do this was not easy and the President made compromises of domestic issues to preserve his ability to pursue two simultaneous wars.
Looked at this way, Senator McCain should welcome him to the convention and give him the recognition the President deserves. Remember, 30%+ have stayed the course with the President and these people will surely applaud the President in every way. Perhaps 20-25% of the population don't condemn the President but just feel he has failed to address budget over runs and other issues. Nonetheless, let us hope a rousing appreciation of the President is a given on that first night of the convention.
To do less than this, or to actually mount a political attack on the President, will only prove that Senator McCain would rather be President than pay the price of an honorable man. This price is never painless, often immediately serious, but longterm honor is what differentiates the exceptional from the ordinary.
What is there about Bush to be ebullient about? High gas? Inflation? Creeping unemployment? Sinking dollar? Food prices? Republican majority? Rumsfeld surge resistance?
Bush is blah! 'Course, you and a whole 28 percent of the population don't think so. I respect that.
The internet abbreviation for your comment is “/facepalm.”
I may be worse off than I was two years ago...when the Dims took control...but can’t say that I’m any worse off than four or eight years ago.
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