Beats me. I'm quite sure I'd get more prescient and accurate political analysis from some random guy living in an empty large appliance box underneath the interstate.
Posted on 10/11/2008 7:24:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
For McCain to win this election (which he still can) the furor over the stock market will have to calm down so that popular attention can focus on Barack Obama. For all of the deluge of media that has engulfed the American people, they can only keep one subject on their mind. All media has only one focus at a time. And, if you are in the spotlight, you are almost certain to self-destruct.
Follow this election cycle. Between the summer of 2007 and the end of February of 2008, all focus was on Hillary Clinton’s ups and downs. And Obama defeated her decisively. Then in March and April of 2008, Obama was in the focus and Rev Wright and the surrounding controversy propelled Hillary to victory. Then during the summer of 2008, all eyes were on Obama and he gained. In September, McCain was on the griddle. At first his selection of Sarah Palin let him move ahead. But then his “suspension” of his campaign and subsequent complicity in the bailout package cost him his lead and moved Obama to an advantage just short of double digits.
Now the attention should logically shift to Obama. He is way ahead and McCain is nowhere to be seen. Few give McCain any chance and the debate is over whether the race is over already. This is, of course, the ideal environment for a McCain surge. All attention would normally focus on the Democrat. But it isn’t. Every American checks the market before they check the polls. The ongoing anxiety over the stock market is not only giving more and more people reason to hate the Republicans of Wall Street and their allies in Washington, but it is keeping us from focusing on Obama.
If ever the market stabilizes, Americans will be fascinated by the Ayers-Obama ties and the relationship between Farrakhan and the Democratic nominee. The increasing evidence that ACORN is committing voter fraud, registering people over and over again in anticipation of stuffing the ballot box on election day. As ACORN gets raided by the FBI, it will hurt Obama. He was general counsel to its Illinois affiliate and Obama channeled millions to the radical group when he got control over the money William Ayers got from the Annenberg Foundation.
All of these ties are damning for Obama and will reinforce the doubts that Rev. Wright first put in our minds. They will lead people to question Obama’s values and his fitness for the presidency. A man whose spiritual advisor is Rev Wright, whose financial backer is Rezco, and whose first major employer was William Ayers might not be a good choice for president. But for these associations to loom large enough in our consciousness to impact our vote, the market has to settle down so we can hear the campaign over its din.
This whole thing has been overplayed. The hysteria by market players will calm down at some point, sanity will return and this market is going to take off.
Agreed. But. better than 10000.
I am banking on it.
Agree this is the ONLY way to go. Americans are afraid and anxious and angry. If you don’t connect with this and show how the Dems and Obama doesn’t know what he is doing to get us out of this...then you can’t connect.
voters who are afraid going into the voting booth STILL go for experience.
John McCain, Sara Palin, I don't care who does it, we have got to stop the insane stupidity, save these FOOLS who are being taken in by that one.
He will cause a catastrophic fall out in this country and we will likely become divided rapidly. It will ugly, unless of course WE ARE ALL WRONG ABOUT HIM. (RIGHT)
I have been sending links and the you tube stuff to the entire media email list all day.
A positive feedback loop has recently been in effect. In bad times, the party in power is generally punished. Despite the Democrat majority in both houses of Congress, the public has been led to believe that the Republicans are the "controlling power authority". As the Dow goes down, so do the prospects for the Republicans. And as the prospects for Republicans go down, so does the Dow.
The way to break this feedback loop is, somehow, to educate the public that the Democrats -- and Democrat ideology -- are responsible for the financial crisis.
no offense to you,
but mccain’s not going to do as you suggest
because he’s part of the country club republicans
that want amnesty.
si.
we need a committee for the present danger
that elected ronald reagan.
Beats me. I'm quite sure I'd get more prescient and accurate political analysis from some random guy living in an empty large appliance box underneath the interstate.
Someone needs to ask Morris why he was REALLY in Kenya last year!!!!!
Thank you!
At this point, I almost wish I had a sub-prime mortgage.
My home would be FREE!
But, I don’t wish that.
And, I wonder about those who do.
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Everytime I see Dick Morris on TV he looks like Obama has been adding air pressure to an already bloated blowup doll
That’s the problem. You’re banking on it. ;-) Har...
Because we are not as boorish as you.
Ah YES.. 14.5 percent of the voters in the US are HIspanic and 12.3 are Black. That means blacks and Hispanics make up 26.8 percent of the voters. If the Democrats get their vote they only need to get 32 percent of the white vote to win.
In other words McCain can win 68 percent of the white vote and still lose.
The media made illegal immigration the issue in the news because they knew that if the Demcrats could do as well with Hispanics as they did with blacks, no liberal Democrat could ever lose the presidency again. And Democrats could control the house and senate forever.
Bush won in 2004 because he got 35 percent of the hispanic vote. The way hispanics were changing parties by 2012 a majority of hispanics would be voting Republican. Once the Republican percent of Hispanic votes exceeded 40 percent there was no way for a Democrat to win.
But if the hipanic vote returned to the Democrats the same way blacks did, no Democrat could ever lose a race for the presidency.
So the media made the Mexican immigration the big issue and the Liberals are back in the drivers seat.
If you want to know who elected Obama president and why he totally opened the border to Mexicans, you should first look in the mirror. You’ll be looking at the person who fixed it so no Demcrat will ever fear losing again.
The question has never been will this nation become majority hispanic. The question was would hispanics be liberal or conservatives.
Don’t forget to take your spanish lessons. It will be the new national language by 2050.
McCain is losing the senior vote in Florida. I know two GOP life time supporters who have switched in the last few weeks. It is meaningless to talk about this thing on the edges. A tidal wave is forming and Morris is right. Unless there is a dramatic shift in the economic agenda prospects are dark.
Yeah, right. Wonderful. Just fabulous.
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ACORN = OBAMA
OBAMA = ACORN
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STOCK = SOROS
SOROS = STOCK
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We may get to $200/barrel oil if Obama wins and allows "some offshore drilling" while in fact stopping almost all of it.
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