Posted on 10/11/2008 6:16:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
Yes, of course it is.
Three weeks ago John McCain was ahead, and a furious attack on Sarah Palin was underway.
And Americans were several trillion dollars richer.
Our stocks will recover if the American economy, powered by democratic capitalism's relentless innovation and productivity, is allowed to work its magic again.
That is the record of our often disparaged but inevitably triumphant attachment to economic liberty.
The task for John McCain between now and the time the last vote is cast on November 4 is to speak this truth and articulate this record and thus help repair the damaged confidence of a nation while making the case that the combination of a President Obama, a Speaker Pelosi and a Senate Majority Leader Reid poses a real peril to the ability of the American economy to recover.
Part of that challenge will be to hammer away at the record of Senator Obama when it comes to choosing his friends, colleagues and mentors. If Obama is elected, he will be tasked with bringing not just his luggage to the White House, but more than 3,000 appointees to the executive branch. Senator McCain must focus the American electorate on the record of Senator Obama in this regard, a record that includes some names that need to be familiar to the voters: William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Rashid Khalidi, Tony Rezko and Jeremiah Wright, and one organization, ACORN, with which Senator Obama has been deeply associated with for the past two decades.
The Manhattan-Beltway media elite has obsessed on every absurd internet rumor and slander directed at Sarah Palin, but has refused to pull at the many threads in the Obama tapestry of experiences. Never have so few obvious questions been posed by the the last-gasp media gate-keepers. The inversion of the traditional role of the press --to discover and explore-- been inverted into an enabling protection racket. But the country is wired, and even though it is angry, it is hungry for information and answers and not indifferent to the identity of the man who would lead them for the next four years. The MSM has failed to be fair, but Senator McCain doesn't have to accept their rules or their absurd practices. For ninety minutes next week he must explain again and again that the roots of the financial crisis are in the practices pushed by ACORN and its accomplices on the Hill. Again and again he must raise the subject of the 3,000 colleagues of Obama that will arrive with him to take control of the vast federal machinery.
Senator McCain is best defined by his relentlessness when engaged. The message is a simple one: We ought not to trust our government and thus our country to this complex web of radicals and grifters, of social engineers and elites. McCain trusts America to do the right thing, but he must at least announce to them clearly and with great candor that the fork in the road on November 4 is unlike any the voters have approached before, and he must do so in the face of a terrific wind of bad news and as yet unfocused anger.
Sarah Palin has secured the GOP base, reminding it that the GOP is the party of middle America and traditional values. Senator McCain must deliver a message to those who don't think much about politics and who trust the government to do its best within the margins of the mainstream political debate.
Three weeks is an eternity, but while the beginning has been made, there is a long way to go. Straight talk has never been so necessary and so overdue.
Thanks, Hugh. Deafen your ears to the slime-fest, folks. The Dems are going for blood, telling lies, ignoring vile rumors. They are Machiavellian to the core, desperate to win, so their cronies can run things.
Must not let that happen. There is no room for discouragement now. If this were a battle, discouragement before the battle would guarantee a win by the other side, would it not? We must never give up.
His recent statements lead me to conclude that John McCain knows as much about “economic liberty” as my daughter’s pet chinchilla knows about plasma physics.
Three weeks is enough time if our guy showed some balls rather then let Sarah do all the hitting.
Personally, I am getting read for the fight. If McCain wins, we have a major black riot coming, fired up by the dimocrats and the LameStream Media. The LameStreams are already putting out the riot feelers and putting that into the minds of the stupids that do not think of it themselves. When the votes are counted, if Obama loses, then IMMEDIATELY they think he was cheated and hit the streets in demonstration and riots. Most large sized towns are mainly blacks, trash whites, illegals, etc. That is where the riots will be. I am starting to see more Obama stickers and posters around here. Alabama, the last I saw was like 56-64% for McCain, but that does not mean that cities like Birmingham will not burn. Atlanta is 100 miles away and I KNOW it will burn. The hate is being fired by the LameStreams. The war within is coming. Our overseas enemies are chomping at the bit. They are rolling on the sand, laughing. They know that we are growing weaker and weaker by the day. They cannot wait for Obama to win, to pounce. I see very desperate and dangerous times ahead. We are in very real trouble and I am not just talking the financial stuff.
If everyone was as thirsty for information as we freepers are then McCain would be 20 points up...then again, if everyone was more like us he would not be the nominee.
Unfortunately the average American is pretty stupid (proven by the fact Obama is in the lead)....times like these make me think that only landowners/taxpayers should be allowed to vote.
I maintain hope because we are witnessing a remarkable transformation in how information is being disseminated. We on FreeRepublic are justifiably very disappointed that John McCain has done a simply poor job of communicating the case against Barack Obama. However, I travel a lot for work and lately to family and friends’ out of towm functions over the last month. The very encouraging thing I see is that people by and large are quite knowledgeable about the character issues against Obama.
This is attributable to a much stronger and wider-reaching internet audience and the available content on this site and YouTube and others. Through the many aggravations McCain is making us suffer, we as a grassroots are doing I think a very effective job in getting the word out through the Internet. I listened to Rush talk about dragging McCain over the finish line. This would never have been possible in any previous election campaign. In spite of McCain’s quirky and aggravating performance, he really is adding to his own credibility with a wide audience because people don’t doubt his love of country or fundamental credentials.
All this pressure building of Obama’s obvious cover-up of his radical ties is only creating more internet interest, dissemination and negative speculation about Obama. This is why the McCain and Palin campaign appearances are so big and energetic. All this really is in spite of McCain. He has already made his case and is a low-risk commodity. Everybody knows that, especially the Obama-lovers.
Obama can play like he is above all these character questions but the pressure is so heavy because no matter where you go, the information is out there. This is a referendum on Obama and whether he can “close the deal”. I believe 3 more weeks of pressure is awfully hard to withstand for a guy with no experience, no answers, and a lot of bad associations. Oh, and the 527’s haven’t spoken yet either.
I had to stop listening to him yesterday when he told some caller that "Jerome Corsi is a Nutter. Don't believe anything he says."
If anyone is a "nutter" it is Hugh Hewitt. Jerome Corsi put his life on the line to travel to Kenya to gather the information that no other reporter seems to want to gather and Hugh Hewitt dismissed him as a "nutter".
I'm sure he would call everyone here on Free Republic a "nutter" too.
But can truth, and serious hard-hitting tactics with a demonstrated WILL to win, trump voter fraud? There have been numerous allegations and some factual evidence that the ACORN “Brown Shirts” have been very busy in “developing” huge margins for the election of Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., the charismatic, messianic, Magic, um, Mulatto.
This is the same thugocracy that has intimidated banks and other lending institutions into underwriting some very shaky “sub-prime” home loans, and even car and student loans, then forcing the members of the community of secondary lenders, through the intercession of long-time Democrat legislators (notably Chuck Schumer, Chris Dodd, and Barney Frank) to accept and “bundle” these loans, ending up widely distributed throughout and poisoning some of the major financial instruments traded to institutional investors.
These investors include the trustees of your pension fund, and when their assets are eroded, so are your retirement funds. When health insurance companies have invested in these instruments, your medical benefits are eroded as well. Betcha didn’t think of that.
When the Civil War II comes, what part of America are we going to declare “our territory”, and how shall we organize our chain of government and military command? Do we have the economic strength to carry on what may become an international conflict? How do we isolate and marginalize the “other side”?
Or do we enter this hopelessly, knowing we are going to lose, but forced to fight nevertheless, because we know that submission to the “other side” will be a sure imposition of tyranny such as this country has not seen since the frontiers were first being settled, where no law is respected enough to be applied fairly, and there is no longer recourse throught appeal?
I still refuse to believe that there are nearly as many idiots in America as the polls indicate. I just hope every man or woman who considers themselves a Republican gets off their duff and votes. If that happens McCain will win in a landslide, if not then those Republicans who did not bother to vote should be held accountable.
Sorry...couldn't help myself. ;-)
Obama is a commie scumbag, surrounded with people who hate the "shining city on the hill," who cannot stand real God given rights, but only unaccountable libertine chaos, "managed" by the elite, know-it-all liberals. Opportunity and freedom for all - forgetaboutit!
If people think Bob Dole was an ineffective speaker, you should hear McCain speak. I saw him in La Crosse yesterday, and he can suck the energy out of building faster than than an atomic meltdown. The crowd was pumped up and energized before McCain spoke by a variety of speakers including ex-Wisconsin gov Tommy Thompson. All the pre-McCain speakers were energized. McCain was not. He speaking style is dull and plodding. He threw little or no red meat to the crowd. People will be voting more against Obama and not so much as for McCain because he gives them little to get excited about.
Judging by what I heard from McCain yesterday, I wouldn't hold your breath.
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