Posted on 08/25/2008 7:23:14 AM PDT by library user
SEE MY #17
” Obama is quite different. People don’t know him, they just know his image. Once people start to understand who and what he is, they will recoil. I think McCain will win very big. I just wish the GOP had picked a better candidate.”
I believe McCain will win because - at least in 2008 - he will have been the BEST candidate the Republicans could offer.
Now I know folks are spitting out their coffee as they read this. But consider:
McCain is doing as well as he is, precisely because he is NOT a “hard conservative” Republican; being who he is makes him more palatable to the “waving wheat” voters. Those are the so-called “undecided” and “independent” voters who never seem to be able to make their own choice, but instead waver back and forth like wheat blowing in the political winds.
These are people who might otherwise have voted against a hard-conservative Republican exactly because of their own perceptions (correct or incorrect) that he would just be “more Bush”. Because they believe themselves to be independents - and, “middle-of-the-roaders” - they are quite often taken aback by “the right”.
McCain offers them qualities that appeal to their muddy sensibilities such as his war record and long term of service in the Senate, in which he has often been characterized as “independent” - JUST LIKE THEMSELVES.
Obama, by comparison, has nothing of substance to offer - only “promises”. And sitting in the corner is that pesky reality that folks (even folks here) tend to ignore called race.
McCain provides the waving wheats who might otherwise “bond” to Obama’s song of change, but who remain wary of blacks, the option of voting for a Republican they can live with. That is, a comfortable old white guy with a good record of service to the country.
McCain wasn’t my first choice, nor my second, nor my third. I liked Fred Thompson, Tom Tancredo, and could have lived with Romney or even Huckabee.
But I daresay that NONE of them would have currently been doing as well in the polls vs. Obama.
He’s the right guy for this contest, for better or worse.
I’m voting for the old white guy.
- John
Now that would be sweet! Didn’t I hear recently that old Ralph Nader was launching a campaign bid? If these two egomaniacs were to run as third party candidates, I doubt obama would even get 10% of the vote. Luscious possibilities!
I would ask them, “What if Obama the neophyte does get elected President and the Iranians finish making some nuclear bombs and start sneaking them into the U.S. and a few of them blow up Manhattan and Washington, D.C. and Obama asks them to please stop doing that...and they sneak some more into the U.S. How are you going to replace Obama when he fails to stop the nukes?”
My God, I do think that’s Denver reflected in Jones’s sunglasses!
...”I think McCain will win very big. I just wish the GOP had picked a better candidate.:...
Maybe consider this view: given the MSM-driven hate campaign against GWB and the GOP over the past 7.5 years, perhaps Mr. McCain is the only GOP candidate who would have a chance against the unholy MSM/Obama conspiracy?
Troll alert...
HIS temper?
Ever seen Biden rant and rave?
There must be some youT's on some of them 0 we gotta dig them out and comment on the obambi's white=haired old guy and his temper...
My question was rhetorical....meaning a LOT more work has to be done to educate the general public about Obama.
I agree with you...but think a LOT more needs to be done.
Are those spectacular accusations about Empress Theodora being an ex-stripper and sexual prevert true?
Ever since Rovian acolyte Mark Schmidt took over the McCain team he’s done a 180.
I can’t wait to see what they put out over the home stretch.
As other posters have pointed out, certain passages of Obama’s books-on-tape recordings of his autobiography will be a rich vein.
I think it was true that she was an ex-stripper. Don’t know about the other.
The way he lashed out at the pro-life people, calling them "liars" twice, when they merely restated what he himself said, is telling. He's very thin skinned, and Americans don't like that in a candidate.
I had read this story before, and your comparison is quite relevant.
A reincarnation perhaps?
On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, in a downtown high-rise conference room lined with two-way mirrors, 21 undecided Colorado voters sit trying to decide whether they have more doubts and reservations about Barack Obama or John McCain... The group has been convened by the pollster Frank Luntz, who usually does this sort of thing on live television but has instead organized the session at the behest of the American Association of Retired Persons and the related activist group Divided We Fail... after two hours of talking, and a pre-convention buildup here in Denver in which Democrats have received lots of positive coverage in this critical swing state, you’d have to say that the news is pretty good for McCain... At first, the atmosphere seems quite friendly for Obama. Luntz asks the Democrats in the room to raise their hands. Four people do so. Then he asks for the independents; about 15 hands go up. And then he asks for Republicans to raise their hands. There are none.AARP hires a pollster who assembles a group consisting of no Republicans? Stop the presses!!! ;')
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