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How McCain Wins (McCain unhappy with how staff has handled Palin)
NYT ^ | WILLIAM KRISTOL

Posted on 09/28/2008 8:17:49 PM PDT by Chet 99

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To: Chet 99

Yes, I’m beginning to panic...


81 posted on 09/28/2008 8:57:11 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: unspun

Somebody is hamstringing McCain as well , for fear he might “ lose his temper “ . This was quite obvious in the debate . Whomever is doing this needs to be pushed out of the campaign rather quickly , because we will not win this way .

Unleash both of them !


82 posted on 09/28/2008 8:58:51 PM PDT by Neu Pragmatist ( Register Likeminded Voters while there is still time and Donate to the NRA-PVF - Let's GOTV !)
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To: unspun
In case you missed it . Huck trashed McCain last week and piled on during the usual Dem - Obama trashing session at CNN on Friday.
83 posted on 09/28/2008 8:59:12 PM PDT by ncalburt
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To: Chet 99

Come out and call 0bama a Marxist. Set the media off! Cite his damn book and his up bringing.


84 posted on 09/28/2008 9:00:27 PM PDT by Globalist Goon ("Head down over a saddle.")
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To: kesg

right on.


85 posted on 09/28/2008 9:00:37 PM PDT by ncalburt
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To: Neu Pragmatist

Right on. Let McCain get unhinged. Look what he did to Romney, he absolutely sunk him.


86 posted on 09/28/2008 9:00:47 PM PDT by bubbrubb
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To: ncalburt

Exactly how did Huck trash McCain ?


87 posted on 09/28/2008 9:00:54 PM PDT by Neu Pragmatist ( Register Likeminded Voters while there is still time and Donate to the NRA-PVF - Let's GOTV !)
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To: Neu Pragmatist

“Somebody is hamstringing McCain as well , for fear he might “ lose his temper “ . This was quite obvious in the debate . Whomever is doing this needs to be pushed out of the campaign rather quickly , because we will not win this way .

Unleash both of them !”

I don’t know what I was expecting when McCain first came out on the stage - but my first impression frightened me!
I almost thought he looked ill and going to ralph.

I had the same feeling I get when I try to listen to Bush speak to reporters. Painful.

Thank God McCain warmed up after awhile - that was awful.


88 posted on 09/28/2008 9:02:35 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Owen

That is true Owen, and quite correct, moderate women, the suburbia vote, is the key demo this year.

However, there is some field to till in the core Republican Base, at the very least the McCain camp should give “us” some more of Governor Palin to fire up the base of the GOP.

For me it seems a bit odd that somehow a Palin cannot approach the GOP Base seems absurd, and counterproductive to winning.


89 posted on 09/28/2008 9:02:40 PM PDT by padre35 (Sarah Palin is the one we've been waiting for..Rom 10.10..)
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To: Abbeville Conservative
I actually agreee with that statement. It's old fashioned. Works for us, but not the general public. Not now. The public would have to be "reschooled" in two modes of political philosophy that it doesn't understand anymore.

Better to speak in terms of what is relevant to the "Joe Sixpack" voter.

90 posted on 09/28/2008 9:02:54 PM PDT by GVnana ("I once dressed as Tina Fey for Halloween." - Sarah Palin)
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To: zwerni
He's been a silly weasel his whole life. IMHO of course.
If Palin is using him to put this out , I'll have to admit he's no longer a completely useless fool.

But his explication sounds like him cutting wind to feel important- as usual.

91 posted on 09/28/2008 9:02:54 PM PDT by mrsmith
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To: Dr. Jaguar DuPre

I agree. Bush has put conservatism and capitalism on the defensive, but Obama is clearly a Marxist. We have got to make an argument to keep him out of the WH.


92 posted on 09/28/2008 9:03:04 PM PDT by Globalist Goon ("Head down over a saddle.")
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To: ncalburt

I think McCain is taking more charge as he is having Sarah at his home for two days in AZ to prep for the debate.
A good way to keep away the short leash folks


93 posted on 09/28/2008 9:03:20 PM PDT by SoCalPol (McCain / Palin 08 The Only Choice)
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To: Neu Pragmatist
Unleash both of them !

Yes, but they need to tell The True Story of Barack Obama.

At the end of the fable, "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," it was not the boy who failed. He did his job. Joe McCarthy was half a decade ago. The papers John McCain can hold up in his hand now have the actual names and facts. (If those papers get to him.)

Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis

"Conspicuous in their absence are any connections at all with any other group, moderate, or even mildly leftist. They are all radicals, firmly bedded in the anti-American, communist, socialist, radical leftist mesh."

94 posted on 09/28/2008 9:03:44 PM PDT by unspun (Tell the truth about Obama to all you know.)
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To: Neu Pragmatist
You are right , but Palin has her strengths and she has all but disappeared from the campaign trail.

Yes...this week. Part of that was McCain suspending his campaign (Palin is part of the McCain campaign too, remember?) and part of it is debate preparation in Philadelphia. I just hope that she is not being overprepared. And Kristol is actually right for once: a minute spent not going after Obama is a minute wasted. But she needs to do it in the calm, relaxed, even charming style of her convention speech as well as her Alaska debates in 2006. I know she can do it because the evidence on YouTube is overwhelming.

95 posted on 09/28/2008 9:03:49 PM PDT by kesg
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To: Old Sarge

lol. Ya he has noobs for advisors.


96 posted on 09/28/2008 9:03:56 PM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: ncalburt

Huckleberry is about as interested in seeing McCain win as Hillary is in seeing Obama win.


97 posted on 09/28/2008 9:04:09 PM PDT by Chet 99
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To: Snurple

“We don’t need no stinkin’ CHANGE!”


98 posted on 09/28/2008 9:04:44 PM PDT by This Just In
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To: bubbrubb

No doubt , i’ve never been McCain’s biggest fan , but I must say McCain can shred in a debate when he is himself . If there ever was a time for McCain and his take no prisoners anti-pork reform message , it is now .


99 posted on 09/28/2008 9:05:16 PM PDT by Neu Pragmatist ( Register Likeminded Voters while there is still time and Donate to the NRA-PVF - Let's GOTV !)
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To: Neu Pragmatist
he was sucking up and trashing McCain's handling of the Paulson bailout along wit the other Obama cultists at CNN. It was not good.
100 posted on 09/28/2008 9:06:02 PM PDT by ncalburt
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