I never thought listening to a Republican on the stump would be painful, but McCain is simply wobbling like a punch drunk fighter. 350 is in the ballpark.
Posted on 10/08/2008 11:27:18 PM PDT by Dick Holmes
Time was, the Baltimore Orioles' manager was Earl Weaver, a short, irascible, Napoleonic figure who, when cranky, as he frequently was, would shout at an umpire, "Are you going to get any better or is this it?" With, mercifully, only one debate to go, that is the question about John McCain's campaign.
In the closing days of his 10-year quest for the presidency, McCain finds it galling that Barack Obama is winning the first serious campaign he has ever run against a Republican. Before Tuesday night's uneventful event, gall was fueling what might be the McCain-Palin campaign's closing argument. It is less that Obama has bad ideas than that Obama is a bad person.
This, McCain and his female Sancho Panza say, is demonstrated by bad associations Obama had in Chicago, such as with William Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist. But the McCain-Palin charges have come just as the Obama campaign is benefiting from a mass mailing it is not paying for. Many millions of American households are gingerly opening envelopes containing reports of the third-quarter losses in their 401(k) and other retirement accounts -- telling each household its portion of the nearly $2 trillion that Americans' accounts have recently shed. In this context, the McCain-Palin campaign's attempt to get Americans to focus on Obama's Chicago associations seems surreal -- or, as a British politician once said about criticism he was receiving, "like being savaged by a dead sheep."
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Every day, another “conservative” columnist throws in with Obama.
i doubt o can get 350 but her could get close if he pulls va,oh and fla. will is right! mccain has ran a dreadful show. god its awful campaign but even a blind squirell finds a nut and he found the great sarah
I never thought listening to a Republican on the stump would be painful, but McCain is simply wobbling like a punch drunk fighter. 350 is in the ballpark.
We need the demoralizing talk to help elect the greatest threat to this country ever. Obama’s useful idiots!
Yep, they're all over FR. I think a lot of them are Obama trolls who are doing just that - demoralizing the GOP with their defeatist theatrics.
And shame on the non-trolls for being naive enough to fall for it.
I agree. After the debate the other night, my daughter called me in great depression because she thought McCai9n had done well - until she checked FR. She said it looked to her as if FR posters thought the enemy was McCain, and not Obama.
I suspect a lot of them are trolls, and others are people obsessed with some part of McCain’s program with which they do not agree. They can’t see the forest for the trees. The single most important thing in this election is to prevent the election of Obama, a Marxist thug in the making who will destroy our country.
The vast majority of FReepers never wanted McCain to be the nominee, and he's proving that this aversion was well-founded.
Um, yes, I've been on FR for a while now. I was one of those during the primaries who expressed a decided lack of enthusiasm for McCain.
However, he somehow became the nominee.
Whether we like it or not, we have two choices:
McCain or Obama.
We might as well buck up and deal with it. All the complaining, whining and hand-wringing are counterproductive at this point.
Our mission is to keep that communist scum from attaining the White House. I wish people would focus.
I don’t feel constrained by the choices imposed by the two-party system, particularly where one of those parties has thrown its principles under the bus and its candidate is distinguishable from the other party’s candidate only by a matter of degree. Socialism lite is still socialism.
Oh.
Well.
Aren't you morally and intellectually superior to the rest of us lowly beings? LOL
You can't see the difference? Too bad.
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