McCain Camp, RNC To Spend $160 Million In Final Weeks

FoxNews.com ^ | 10/10/08 | James Rosen

[word_warrior_bob]

John McCain's campaign and the Republican National Committee plan to spend "upwards of $160 million" in the final weeks of the presidential race, according to a senior McCain adviser.

This will represent a massive counter-attack to combat Barack Obama's lopsided spending advantage to date.

The McCain adviser told FOX News that, while Obama is outspending them in all but two of 14 battleground states, "that will change over the last four weeks."

As national and battleground state polls show McCain trailing Obama consistently, McCain is urging voters not to count him out.

"In case you missed it, this is about the seventh or eighth time that pundits have said 'McCain's campaign is in trouble,'" he told Wisconsin voters Thursday. "We fooled them then and we will fool them again."

[depenzz]

IMPORTANT INFORMATION!! > > Sunday 10/12/08 @ 9pm > > > > SEAN HANNITY, OF HANNITY > & COLMES ~ FOX NEWS, > > > > IS GOING TO AIR A VERY > IMPORTANT DOCUMENTARY ABOUT BARACK OBAMA, > > SUNDAY NIGHT AT 9:00 PM. > > > > HE STATED ON THE AIR THIS > EVENING THAT NO ONE IN THE NEWS MEDIA WAS WILLING TO DO > THIS. > > > > HANNITY IS GOING BACK TO > OBAMA'S EARLIER DAYS, SHOWING EVEN THEN HIS TIES TO > RADICAL PROFESSORS, FRIENDS, SPIRITUAL ADVISERS, Etc., > > > > HE STATED THIS EVENING > THAT HE WILL SHOW IN DETAIL HIS TIES TO REV. WRIGHT FOR 20+ > YRS (which we all know) HOW HE WAS PARTICIPATING WITH THIS > MAN, AND NOT FOR THE REASONS HE STATES! > > HE HAS UNCOVERED MORE OF > OBAMA'S RADICAL LEADERS AND WE WILL SEE THINGS THAT NO > ONE IN THE MEDIA IS WILLING TO PUT OUT THERE. > > > > THIS WILL BE A NIGHT THAT > YOU WILL KNOW MORE ABOUT OBAMA THAN EVER BEFORE. > > HANNITY IS VERY > PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS PROGRAM AND ASKED THAT EVERYONE > PLEASE, PLEASE WATCH~~ > > SUNDAY NIGHT, 9 PM. > > > > HANNITY IS DETERMINED > THIS INFORMATION BE PUT OUT THERE BECAUSE AS AMERICAN'S, > > WE STILL DO NOT KNOW > ABOUT OBAMA!! > > WAKE UP AMERICA !! > > THIS IS SERIOUS, > > > > EVERYONE. I KNOW MOST OF > YOU WATCH FOX NEWS, AND YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE VOTING FOR, > > > > BUT IF YOU CAN, > > PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO > EVERYONE YOU KNOW. > > > > THIS IS CRITICAL FOR OUR > COUNTRY. > > MY PRAYER IS THAT WE, > ALONG WITH SEAN HANNITY, WILL REACH SOMEONE/ANYONE BEFORE > NOV. 4th.

I received this email yesterday, does anyone know anything about it? I am not a big TV fan but I will be watching tonight.

Sorry about no paragraphs but I must go my party is waiting for me at the restaurant. Should have gone 10 minutes ago. LOL

[Big Giant Head]

All canceled out by a few words from McCain like another "You have nothing to fear from him being President."

Can you say "head fake?" Think about it. Show the opponent that you're weak, when you're strong. It's a trap.

[word_warrior_bob]

They’re not going to refuse his ads, a large portion of them are going to be targeted locally to swing states, professional media buyers buy the ads, just not going to happen.

[mad_as_he$$]

Now that right there is some funny $hit. McCain does not have that kind of strategic thinking in him.

[word_warrior_bob]

Take your bitching to the hundreds of other threads with the other whiners please.

[Thermalseeker]

....people will have plenty of doubt about Obama by the time they step into the voting booth.

Let's hope so. McCain telling his supporters that they have nothing to worry about with an Obammy Administration and going so far as to call that Marxist "honorable" isn't helping......

[RepublitarianRoger2]

I can only hope that it's money well spent. They could spend a billion dollars in the next few weeks, but if they don't nail Obama with a decisive, undeniable, unignorable message, it could be all for naught. And McCain needs to shut his trap about "reaching across the aisle" and "bipartisanship" and how Obama is such a decent family man...nnnaarrrrgh, shut the **** up already.

[word_warrior_bob]

Yes, we’ve heard you people 50,000 times, take that attitude to another thread please.

[Lloyd227]

"For those of you wanting McCain to hit Obama in the thread [I think you meant "head"] with a frying pan during the debate, you might be disappointed."

As you well know, we ARE in fact sorely disappointed. I don't want McCain to hit him with a frying pan, but I want McCain to tell the truth, to look Obama in the eye and challenge Obama on the very basis of the socialist ideals Obama intends to lead by.

I never, EVER want to hear McCain refer to Obama as a "decent and honorable man" again, I want McCain to fight like he truly loves his country and sees the very real danger in what Obama represents. I want McCain to put the right information directly in the headlines of the world newspapers by speaking those words directly to Obama on stage during the debate and to challenge Obama's credentials to lead, his associations with criminials, his socialist worldview and the very obvious results of Obama's economic and social policies.

It's clear someone on McCain's campaign staff knows these things as some of the ads have actually been pretty good. It's also clear that up to now, McCain doesn't believe or agree with his own campaign ads. That's what needs to change in this last debate.

Otherwise McCain should step aside and just let Palin have the top of the ticket.

[mad_as_he$$]

Since you said please. NO! And I will say early and often. I told you so.

[word_warrior_bob]

Lloyd,

This is a positive, hopeful thread. You have your choice of hundreds of other threads with the other whiners, how many times do you people have to post the same thing? We know.

[nuvista]

My wife and I have observed the same thing here in central Florida: an AMAZING lack of enthusiasm for this election, at least as evidenced by the paucity of yard signs and bumper stickers. Compared to the last 3 or 4 cycles, it’s quite telling. We see many more signs for local races (judges, councilmen, sheriffs, etc).
I would not be surprised that McCain has not ginned up the degree of enthusiasm that we saw for W in 2000 and 2004, coming off of the BillyJeff years. But, for That One - the Messiah - to supposedly be the savior coming off an unpopular war, tanking economy, etc, the outward signs indicate that his support might be a mile wide but only an inch deep. At least here in central Florida, he definitively has not closed the deal.

[Thermalseeker]

Yes, we’ve heard you people 50,000 times, take that attitude to another thread please.

If it weren't such a profound blunder you wouldn't have heard about it at all.....and, I'm entitled to my opinion just as much as you are.

[word_warrior_bob]

This thread isn’t about that, so take it to a thread that is.

[Mr Rogers]

What 527? I haven’t seen any significant effort by 527s, nor any enthusiasm that would indicate it will happen.

[Thermalseeker]

This thread isn’t about that, so take it to a thread that is.

I guess you missed the part where I said "LETS HOPE SO".....jeez.

[Big Giant Head]

I’ll check back on this thread Nov 5th for your crow eating.

[John W]

“McCain does not have that kind of strategic thinking in him.”

I doubt that it is McCain by himself sitting around the campaign’s strategic thinking table. The original legitimate news story that leads this thread indicates the campaign will spend upwards of $160 million over the next 16 days. That is significant.

[Matchett-PI]

"Don’t worry we’ll keep this thread bumped until everyone sees it, all the cannons are going to be firing until we sink the SS Obama.

You got that right! bttt

Here's another guy "manning" a cannon (pun intended):
Black preacher says an Obama presidency will unleash 400 years of pent-up black anger.