Posted on 08/30/2008 5:50:01 PM PDT by kristinn
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Now that machine is focused with laser-like intensity on Obama. The clamour is loud and shrill: Obama is vain, inexperienced, liberal and dangerous. It is backed by a clandestine chorus whispering that he has a secretive Islamic past and it uses racially loaded language. It is also only going to get louder. This week, as McCain and the Republicans gather for their party convention in the Minnesota city of St Paul, the noise will become deafening. It has one purpose - to keep the White House in Republican hands at all costs and against the odds.
The current mastermind of the Republican attack machine is known as the Bullet. He is Steve Schmidt, a protégé of Bush's guru, Karl Rove. Nicknamed for his results as much as his bald head, he made his name as commander of the war room that wiped out Democrat John Kerry in 2004. Brought in to shake things up in July, Schmidt imposed discipline on a disorganised campaign. He dissuaded McCain from his off-the-cuff chats with reporters, and honed the focus solely on making Obama unelectable.
Schmidt works on the principles of repeating simple messages loudly and often. Ads attack Obama as a 'celebrity' or a faux-messiah. By doing so they hope to turn Obama's greatest strength - his ability to inspire - into a fatal flaw. That is backed up by another line: that Obama is simply not fit to be president. NotReady08 is the name of a website set up by the campaign. The language can be harsh. 'We are in the hunt for the White House. Barack Obama is going to have to step up with more than a smart tongue, snappy words and a nice suit,' said Maryland Republican politician Michael Steele.
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“By doing so they hope to turn Obama’s greatest strength - his ability to inspire - into a fatal flaw.”
Who said there’s anything — per say — wrong with the ability to inspire?
Gandhi was very inspiring...
... but so was Adolf Hitler!
We took a closer look at ‘the one’ and decided that he ain’t no Gandhi!
STE=Q
Metrosexual wimps.
“The clamour is loud and shrill: Obama is vain, inexperienced, liberal and dangerous.”
You missed a few things like American-hating Marxist sock-puppet, who draws most of his life philosophy from the racist and genocidal ‘black liberation theology.’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990117/posts
There is more about ‘the one’ but time and space does not permit.
STE=Q
It's clear this POS has never ever listened to Rush. Rush has NEVER made an issue of Obambi's race, and he asked his listeners to support CLINTON. This guy's a moron.
I want to see the types of advertisements that the swift boat folks or Jesse Helms and the Congressional Club would have run. Smoke them and take no prisoners.
Oh, Mr. Schmidt doesn't have to do *that*. "The Zero" does a fine job, in that respect, all by his lonesome. Mr. Schmidt just capitalizes on "The Zero"'s propensity to lead with his chin...
the infowarrior
Conservatives inform themselves. Moderates get the news from Jay Leno, John Stewart, and TV ads. Liberals receive their golden shower of ignorance from the DBM. Socialist dogma is reinforced by Hollywood, academic institutions, music, and almost every other country on the planet. You have much more faith in the judgment of voter. Some of them know how they should vote because MTV runs "Rock the Vote" spots.
As opposed to running picnic socials?
don’t forget two other great republican strategists- Ed Rollins and Karl Rove. The country would be far worse off without them.
Schmidt is a welcome addition to this fine legacy.
If everything goes right, mccain is gong to win this thing something i thought was impossible 2 months ago.
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