Now blaming McCain/Palin for the actions of one unknown person (could have even been an O plant, or not) among thousands, is in itself ludicrous. But such language, even if he simply meant kill him in the race, directed towards a presidential candidate, is uh, well, WRONG!
Unless we're suggesting that we should descend into total anarchy, and succumb to the practices of third world politics.
It's one thing to be "fired up" and fighting for your candidate, but tensions are high right now due to external factors, and tempers are short.
I'm not ready to write him off for trying to diffuse extreme rhetoric.
I am not either, but it looks like we’re in the minority. What’s he supposed to do, agree with the guy and get the crowd rabid and have it appear on the news, which it would, which would turn off independents and moderates? I think, like George HW Bush, he finds this whole attack and tit for tat stuff disgraceful. I was a Rudy supporter, now I’m a John and Sarah supporter, and I think we all need to calm down.
This isn’t a matter of “extreme rhetoric”....it is a case of McCain pretty much just endorsed Obama tonight.
What part of “it is over” don’t people understand.
I would crawl through glass to vote for the Palin ticket, but it isn’t going to do any good.
Yes—and there is some very disturbing video of people at rallies calling Obama terrorist and worse. NOT HELPING, PEOPLE. And these are NOT plants. There were too many of them, and you can just tell,
The main thing to remember is that MCCAIN WAS GETTING NO MOVEMENT IN THE POLLS BY HAMMERING AYRES.
It might also be that the campaign got a little call from the secret service telling them to stop baiting the crowd “Who is Barack Obama” etc. I mean, they have to protect the guy....
Neither am I. He is walking a thin line in front of an audience versus on an ad and think is diffusing the audience was a smart move. Usually the VP candidate is the attack dog and now McCain has Fred and Rudy also out as attack dogs going around the Country for McCain.
Wish more people on here understood Presidential campaigns and what is smart to say and what you leave to others while speaking live. Cannot believe anyone who knows how bad Obama is would get so mad about this to not want to vote. Makes me wonder at some of the comments that want to throw in the towel if they ever supported McCain/Palin.
Cannot be on the attack all the time while talking live -- that is why you have ads and surrogates.
“I think what precipitated this was someone, I think at a Palin rally, yelling “kill him”, in reference to obama.”
What precipitated his response was someone in the audience standing up and saying Obama as POTUS scared him because of what kind of SCJs he would nominate. He can’t let himself be baited by remarks about Obama being musllim, arab, etc......but that is quite different from attacking Obama’s own words about what type of SCJs he would nominate. Obama just stated a few days ago that the next SCJ needs to be someone who can empathize with being gay, an unmarried mother, etc.