The Simple Winning Strategy for McCain Campaign! (Vanity)

10/10/08 | bcatwilly

[bcatwilly]

Okay, I know that there must be some people on here that could actually get some solid ideas to those that matter in the McCain campaign.

After watching recent events and seeing John McCain's stump speech in Wisconsin this morning, I am convinced that this is the simple winning strategy for the McCain campaign.

• Obama is clearly seeing a major benefit from anxious people on the economy, and the McCain internals likely show this in a serious way too. The economy is by a huge margin the single most important issue to the voting public.
• Obama is just playing out the clock on this with his SIMPLE mantra of "hope" and "change" as compared to the "Bush years". It has obviously been very effective with a certain segment of the voting public, and I believe that the KEY word here is SIMPLE.
• IMO McCain is citing way too many policy points in his speeches on the economy (as seen once again in his speech this morning in Wisconsin), which is working against him driving to any real comparison. My recommendation is to focus in a very simple way repeatedly on the two basic facts that in a clearly hurting economy Obama is planning to RAISE TAXES on those who can actually create jobs and has plans to spend nearly a trillion dollars. This would be a disaster to an already hurting economy, and I don't think Obama has anything of substance to argue in response. I also think that it would be helpful to use a couple of real world examples of how a small business would be impacted.
• McCain needs to hammer him with this simple attack repeatedly throughout all of the economic focused questions in the final debate next week, clearly stating that this shows a horrible lack of judgment on the economy to be proposing this. And he can even use Obama's own words of record from the last month or so where he said that depending on the health of the economy he may consider delaying some tax increases. Again, it would be good if McCain could use a couple of real world examples during the debate of a small business person that he met on the campaign trail who would be directly hurt by Obama's plans.
• The great thing is that you can still continue the debate on his judgment and character due to personal associations, ACORN etc. in parallel because this serves to reinforce the very simple economic message if people begin to question him in this area also. But I don't think just scaring people with the "negative" stuff, while most of it is true, is going to work without this simple economic attack.
• They really need to have a MAJOR ad buy that runs in all battleground states in a constant loop after the final debate that has BOTH McCain and Palin speaking to the American public to restate this simple message that raising taxes and increasing spending shows a dangerous lack of judgment on the economy at this time etc. It can include a Reagan feel good part also, but we have to attack him on his core economic plan. Again, a couple of real world examples of how a small business would be impacted would be helpful to connect the message with average people.
• In conclusion, the only way that this election is won is to drive up that potential soft spot for Obama on whether he has the right judgment and experience to lead this country in serious times. So repeating a laundry list of what we will do is not going to be effective enough, it MUST BE SIMPLE enough to understand by anyone and MUST HIT OBAMA on his current position on the economy.

[The Sons of Liberty]

McCain MUST understand that it is more critical to the Country that he wins, than it is even for himself! Pull out ALL the stops!

[frankiep]

You hit the nail on the head. At this point it has to be simple based on the fact that most people you hear from that are considering voting for Obama (i.e. the ‘undecideds’ who don’t follow politics until the month before the election and only get their news from the MSM) are people who only understand the issues in simple, easy to digest, terms. Going into any great detail, or throwing too many details at them, doesn’t do much good since the vast majority of it will just wind up going over their heads.

[bcatwilly]

You hit the nail on the head. At this point it has to be simple based on the fact that most people you hear from that are considering voting for Obama (i.e. the ‘undecideds’ who don’t follow politics until the month before the election and only get their news from the MSM) are people who only understand the issues in simple, easy to digest, terms. Going into any great detail, or throwing too many details at them, doesn’t do much good since the vast majority of it will just wind up going over their heads.

One of the concepts here is definitely what another poster said on another thread, "I never got a job from a poor person before.". While McCain may not be able to state it quite that way, the point is that for both small business and corporations alike the tax increases make NO SENSE at all to pile on during an economic downturn. I don't think there is a valid response that Obama can give to that as to why his ambiguous plans will not cause fewer jobs.

[matginzac]

Good points in both posts and may I add a few other lines of attack - 1)point out how Obama has only served 144 days in the Senate - how does this make him qualified? and when he was there, he voted wrong most of the time, 2) his campaigning for his cousin in Kenya - great video of this on Youtube and is ready for airing on national TV, 3) don’t stop with just an association with Ayers, point out that Ayers is a teacher of revolutionary beliefs in TODAY’S classroom and is cozy TODAY with Hugo Chavez, 4) with Venezuela in mind, we have the Russians actively working with Chavez - how is Obama qualified to handle this kind of threat? No way Obamay!!!!!

[redangus]

My question is why aren’t the Repub. talking about the Dems/Obama’s effect on the economy? I would be running an ad from now until election day comparing the economy, gas prices, food prices, the housing market etc. during the first 6 years of the Bush administration and the 2 years since the Dems have controlled the Congress. The numbers are staggering. The market has dropped close to 30%, foreclosures have skyrocketed, unemployment has risen, we all know what gas prices did this summer. Why isn’t McCain and the rest throwing that back at the Dems everytime they throw out the 8 failed years of the Bush administration. The failure has been during the first two years of the Pelosi/Reid administration. It is time to put adults back in charge of Washington.

[RayChuang88]

McCain will win by supporting one simple thing: FairTax. If he does that it would ignite the base like a rocket launch, make Senator Obama look totally foolish for supporting the status quo in our current tax system and might even ignite a rally in our stock market because under FairTax there is all the incentive to invest in the American economy.

[sheikdetailfeather]

I sent an email to the McCain campaign last night. I told them Obama is stealing the show talking about the economy and America is looking for a strong and confident leader in this area more than any other thing! I said they must tie in the high cost of oil (our life blood per Donald Trump) to the present recession and say Obama does not want to drill here at home. Point out that the technology is much more improved now and protects the environment. Also, tell people it will not take ten yrs to make an impact if we get started now. Name names in the Freddie/Fannie fiasco and tie that in with the present recession as well.

[RightFighter]

I was just getting ready to post the same thing. I think McCain should announce that due to the economic situation, something drastic is essential, and the Fair Tax is the engine to fuel our economic rebirth. If he could explain it well enough (Sarah could), it might put him over the top.

[bIlluminati]

That one would work. In January, 2007, the Democrats, including freshman Barack Obama, took over the Congress. Since then, ... .... ... ... Vote McCain-Palin.

[AmericanGirlRising]

I’ve got a little training here so let me take a wack at BOTH campaigns:

Barry:
- initiate immediate halt to all “race riot” chatter by Begala, Carville, and Bergen. Tell the same to the editors of major city dailies. if riots break, they only go to hurt those rioting i.e. Cincinnati 2001, LA 1990s

Johnny:
- steady campaign drip on Barry’s buds in order Ayers/Resko/Khalidi/cousin O - Barry’s dirty. Period. And he doesn’t have the voting record to squelch the doubt he’d be anything but surrounded by nuts.
- voter fraud ACORN the $800,000 Barry’s camp gave to ACORN and the current 17-state investigation. It’s 100% BS that these claims of voter fraud keep “poor and minorities” from voting. I’ve never met a unch of peole like Democrats who think so little of the people they’re trying to court.
- donors: get on the countless claims of illegal donors and fraudulent voter computer banks out there doing the $199 untraceable donations. Yell! public financing and come on the record that McCain/Feingold is partially to blame. Let him get in there and perfect it.
- Dem Congress: they caused this disaster along with policies by Carter and Clinton. Stay on Franks/Dodd/Pelosi/Schumer. Fine Johnny, you’ve been bi-part over the years, but you can’t be bi-part with this pack of thieves.
- educate on socialism: I’m willing to bet cold-hard-cash (what’s left) that when the elderly dude yelled socialism at the rally Thursday most of the population watching it didn’t have a clue what he was talking about. Expose proof of Barry’s membership in Chi-town socialist outfit.
- be honest. use facts. face it, the McCain/Palin campaign doesn’t have to lie or stretch the truth on anything. Stay honest and stay at it.