Pat Buchanan: John McCain isn't done yet

The Manchester Union-Leader ^ | October 14, 2008 | Patrick J. Buchanan

[2ndDivisionVet]

Great advice!

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Palin appears ready to take the heat to make that case. But McCain seems ambivalent to the point of being bipolar on whether he wants to take responsibility for peeling the hide off Barack Obama.

Where's the graphic of the little boy saying "That's racist!"

[nycoem]

Man up.

[allmost]

Don't know, Buchanan's endorsement is the last thing McCain Needs IMO...

[Anima Mundi]

can one imagine how the media would have reacted had they learned that a GOP presidential nominee was introduced to politics and worked in harness with a KKK bomber of black churches in the 1960s, who was quoted the morning of Oklahoma City as saying he wished he had planted more bombs?

A clever ad could be made along this line...first framing it as above, then switching it around.

[T Lady]

Well, I'd say McCain/Palin got more than a dead cat bounce from the Dow today: It closed up at 900+ points.

[AmericanInTokyo]

The more the main stream media whines about McCain and his followers being raaaaacist! the more you know you are over the target, the bombs (figuratively speaking here folks) being released over the target are hitting with ferocity, and their lead is shrinking. I saw panic in TWO Obama spokesbot's faces on live TV when McCain started to take off the gloves. Their real words and emotions were essentially "STOPPPPPITTTT!" even though they smuggly and on the surface said "this is having the opposite effect you know." These saps are not good poker players. LOL!

As Laura Ingraham said, "look, if the NYTimes on 5 Nov. praises the guy for running a very civilized, clean campaign, you will know he had lost. If they excoriate him on Nov 5 for being meanspirited and low and racist and base, THEN OBAMA LOST!!!" ;-)

[AmericanInTokyo]

BRILLIANT ! YESSSS!

[Rokke]

Hell must be a block of ice. I think I agree with Buchanen.

[Darkwolf377]

Buchanan's endorsement is the last thing McCain Needs

It'll get more coverage than Rev. Wright. "Racist Holocaust Denier Backs McCain"!

[ImpBill]

Actually quite a few of Pat’s messages have been “right on”. Unfortunately, Pat is a pretty fatally flawed messenger!

This one he is correct on. McCain, my least favorite GOP candidate, must go straight at Obama tomorrow night. One doesn’t have to be rude in order to be effective. This “my friend” crap must cease however, if anyone one is to believe the differences between the two are stark.

[allmost]

Will it?

[Doug TX]

The Dow is going to be up and down between now and the election. If a candidate jumps on one side or the other, then it will likely come against them at some point.

Best thing is to be very general when discussing the stock market. Say that your policies will contribute to the recovery of the markets.

[Brad from Tennessee]

In 1948 most of the polls leading up to November inaccurately favored Dewey over Truman. The theory for this error was that since the polls were conducted by telephone an “affluence bias”—in Dewey's favor—existed because many U.S. households could not yet afford a telephone. Sixty years later many individuals and households don't have land lines but instead rely on cell phones. But I think the biggest problem for polls this year is the “Bradley effect.” Juan Williams, on FOX News about a week ago, said Obama’s campaign experts believe the “Bradley” bias is increasing the margin of error in polls by at least six points. Obama often over polled during the primary.

[allmost]

Can you rephrase and /or expand on that interesting thought?

[lentulusgracchus]

Don't know, Buchanan's endorsement is the last thing McCain Needs IMO...

That's the attitude that will guarantee an unbroken string of GOP losses for as far as the eye can see.

When you're too good to dance with the one what brung you, you're not going to dance at all, because frankly, economic royalists just aren't "all that" either out there in Middle America.

Southern and Western conservative Republicans delivered the House and Senate for the first time in 40 years, after McCain and Dole and Bob Michel had niced around and lost, lost, lost, lost, and lost in cycle after cycle, watching an endless procession of Democrats assume the senatorial and House majority-leader jobs and the Speakership.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you. It might just turn around and feed your bank account to the damned radicals.

[T Lady]

A very good strategy. In fact, while listening to Rush last week, he theorized the market's negative reaction may have been attributed to 0bama being ahead in the polls based upon the prospect of higher taxes come 2009.

[Darkwolf377]

No.