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It’s time for John McCain to fire his campaign. He can start with himself. |
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Posted on 10/13/2008 1:21:13 AM PDT by MartinaMisc
It’s time for John McCain to fire his campaign.
He has nothing to lose. His campaign is totally overmatched by Obama’s. The Obama team is well organized, flush with resources, and the candidate and the campaign are in sync. The McCain campaign, once merely problematic, is now close to being out-and-out dysfunctional. Its combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has become toxic. If the race continues over the next three weeks to be a conventional one, McCain is doomed.
He may be anyway. Bush is unpopular. The media is hostile. The financial meltdown has made things tougher. Maybe the situation is hopeless — and if it is, then nothing McCain or his campaign does matters.
But I’m not convinced by such claims of inevitability. McCain isn’t Bush. The media isn’t all-powerful. And the economic crisis still presents an opportunity to show leadership.
The 2008 campaign is now about something very big — both our future prosperity and our national security. Yet the McCain campaign has become smaller.
What McCain needs to do is junk the whole thing and start over. Shut down the rapid responses, end the frantic e-mails, bench the spinning surrogates, stop putting up new TV and Internet ads every minute. In fact, pull all the ads — they’re doing no good anyway. Use that money for televised town halls and half-hour addresses in prime time.
And let McCain go back to what he’s been good at in the past — running as a cheerful, open and accessible candidate. Palin should follow suit. The two of them are attractive and competent politicians. They’re happy warriors and good campaigners. Set them free.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“Same paper that said we should pull out of Iraq since the war was lost
How the hell does this piece of garbage still exist—They are always wrong and their readers still swallow what they editorialize on!”
Exactly on target, and I would add another observation. BS opeds like this telling us that all is lost seem to hit the core of too many freepers, who try to tell us they know best.
Look at the people agreeing with this beltway arrogant snob.
Please do not think I was advocating giving up. Do not give up.
Just that I've been in the fight for over 15 years, and can't say I have made any significant progress. If you had been with us for the past 15 years, maybe things would have worked out differently.
Oh, and several million of your closest friends, too.
FWIW: I am not giving up either, just wondering how to fight the next battle.
Either satire or Kristol forgot to take his meds today.
I find it rather amusing to watch neocons experience an eye-opener.
Bump!
One, because the mindless neocon drive on Iran will collapse without McCain.
Two, only a GOP administration will employ Kristol's neocon friends.
Could be McC somehow slipped the pukeneo leash and is free-lancing. Hasn't uttered a word about Endless War or even mentioned LIEberman as Secy of State and Defense ----like the pukes want him to. Not to mention hiding Hernandez under a rock.
Betcha Billy's Daddy took the little jerk to the woodshed and slapped him around----so If Little Bill doesn't Hurry Up and Do Something, Daddy will take the magazine away from him.
Watch puke stooge Lieberman surface.....nudging McC to toe the puke line......or else.
I appreciate it too, and I have made use of your information.
Just razzin’ ya a bit.
Surely you’ve noticed the trend on the cable news and other news shows on television, it is increasingly more the norm that an expert of consultant is a particular race shared by Mr. Obama, especially in a race where we are constantly told by these very same people that ‘race does not matter’.
I vote: "Forgot to take his meds."
With FR, Rush, Hannity, etc., we at least have the ability to encourage each other when times are tough.
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It’s time for John McCain to fire his campaign. He can start with himself. |
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Yes, but I will say that you are on the wrong track still.
I applaud your longevity, but Bless your heart, when you praise Ronald Reagan, Free Republic, and Rush Limbaugh, it shows me that you are still mired in the Republican vs. Democrat world view.
Take heart! There is more to this after all!
Keep looking, you'll find it.
ps; save your time and skip right over National Review, American Spectator, etc.
But I have given you a huge hint, it is something very similar.
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