You Guys Are Nuts (Face it, McCain is Toast)

http://www.nationalreview.com/ ^ | October 07, 2008 | Andy McCarthy

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You Guys Are Nuts [Andy McCarthy]

We have a disaster here — which is what you should expect when you delegate a non-conservative to make the conservative (nay, the American) case. We can parse it eight ways to Sunday, but I think the commentary is missing the big picture.

Here's what Obama needed to do tonight: Convince the country that he was an utterly safe, conventional, centrist politician who may have leftward leanings but will do the right thing when the crunch comes.

Now, as the night went along, did you get the impression that Obama comes from the radical Left? Did you sense that he funded Leftist causes to the tune of tens of millions of dollars? Would you have guessed that he's pals with a guy who brags about bombing the Pentagon? Would you have guessed that he helped underwrite raging anti-Semites? Would you come away thinking, "Gee, he's proposing to transfer nearly a trillion dollars of wealth to third-world dictators through the UN"?

Nope. McCain didn't want to go there. So Obama comes off as just your average Center-Left politician. Gonna raise your taxes a little, gonna negotiate reasonably with America's enemies; gonna rely on our very talented federal courts to fight terrorists and solve most of America's problems; gonna legalize millions of hard-working illegal immigrants.

McCain? He comes off as Center-Right .. or maybe Center-Left ... but, either way, deeply respectful of Obama despite their policy quibbles.

Great. Memo to McCain Campaign: Someone is either a terrorist sympathizer or he isn't; someone is either disqualified as a terrorist sympathizer or he's qualified for public office. You helped portray Obama as a clealy qualified presidential candidate who would fight terrorists.

If that's what the public thinks, good luck trying to win this thing.

With due respect, I think tonight was a disaster for our side. I'm dumbfounded that no one else seems to think so. Obama did everything he needed to do, McCain did nothing he needed to do. What am I missing

[agooga]

McCain would be mopping the floor with Obama were it not for the economy and the impression that it was a republican/Bush fiasco.

That said, I now feel like a prisoner in a gulag who gets to vote for his warden.

Choice 1: He beats me less but feeds me less.

Choice 2: He beats me more but feeds me more.

It’s my country that is toast.

[Illinois Rep]

Where was Ayers...where was Wright? WTF is this major government take over of private mortgages...Good God the conservatives in this country will be the fathers of fallen capitalism....

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

Keep the faith.

God is in control.

[max americana]

I never liked that RINO McCain but it’s a choice between ...to quote the famous South Park episode in 2004: voting between a douche bag and a turd sandwich.

[atc23]

McCain lost me with the 300 billion buy up of deadbeat plantation squatters.

What an ass

[tobyhill]

If McCain is going to lose then he needs to take the MSM out first. He’s had plenty of time in the Senate to get some undisclosed dirt on at least a few reporters.

[jrooney]

Fred Thompson proudly supports McCain.

[unspun]

This was not the right forum. The people needed to be respected. But McCain must hit hard, immediately!

From his grandparents, parents, and Frank Marshall Davis, through Mansour, Ayers, Dohrn, Alice Palmer (communist who hand picked Obama to succede her in Congress), onward, through this....

...connecting the dots to show Barack Obama's long-standing, continuously developing, anti-American alliances...

Barack Obama & the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis

Simpson documents his research in his article, providing Web links. He provides a rough flow chart.

"CHANGE"

Further corroboration on Obama & The Cloward-Piven Strategy:

Obama, Voter Fraud & Mortgage Meltdown, by James H. Walsh, former federal prosecutor.

More on Obama's Marxist alliance with Radical Islamists:

Barack Obama campaigning with taxpayers' money for Raila Odinga, Marxist & pro-Islamist, despotic leader in Kenya

Barack Obama & Khalid Al-Mansour, old Black Panther friend of Ayers & Dohrn, who raised funds to get Obama into Harvard

And then there are... Herbert and Marion Sandler, the Pritzkers, and the "loose lips" of Charles Schumer and Harry Reid....

[italianquaker]

odumbo madw 2 huge mistakes Delaware and Israel

[gusopol3]

for a messiah, Obama had nothing to offer. Since economic insecurity has driven the electorate in his direction, his failure to put anything at all on the table negates his postion as the economic choice. Therefore, , the electorate is wise to make its choice on other factors, and that opens it wide open for MCCain.

[Dawn531]

McCain, is McCain, is McCain. From the McCain who brought us McCain/Feingold, and McCain/Kennedy, can we expect a leopard to change it’s spots. Unfortunately not.

But the CNN focus group seemed to give him a pretty good score, so maybe the independents see something we conservatives don’t.

As I’ve said before, I don’t want Obama to win, so I’ll vote for McCain. But do I think a McCain Presidency will be an easy thing to take, heck no, it’s going to be frsutrating most of the time.

[Loyolas Mattman]

No, he’ll be Public Enemy #1 if he does anything to damage Sarah’s future prospects.

[FreeAtlanta]

No, Hussein Osama/Obama had that goofy boy next door look the whole night. His advisors coached him well. He hid well in the sheeps clothing.

[ConservativeMind]

Hey, Oddball, don’t you know that the National Review is a conservative publication? And that Andy is a rather conservative guy?

[Tzimisce]

McCain doesn’t fight. It’s just not his style.

I don’t know why and it ***is*** hurting him.

Why do you think Conservatives are so hip for Palin?

[notaliberal]

Yes, you are right. Pray people, pray to God to save our country from that socialist.

[Soul Seeker]

But Thompson didn’t have “fire” in his belly, or so NRO, the punditry and some here told us. Funny. I don’t think Fred would be so relunctant to call Obama and the Libs out out and I’m damn sure he would have had no issue defending conservatism.

I don’t think Fred would have nominated Sarah for his VP though.

So it’s a mixed bag.

[JaneNC]

Barak is a communist Chicago politician with terrorist pals.

Nope, we aren’t crazy, and McCain ain’t toast.

[jennyjenny]

The debate itself was terrible. Brokaw picked questions that he, himself would ask on Meet the Press. They were not questions the average American wanted asked and answered. They were generic. That helps Obama. It doesn’t necessarily hurt McCain but doesn’t help him. It was a total wasted opportunity given what the format should have been. Brokaw sucked.