[beckysueb]

I’ve been noticing your comments. All of them have been negative. I take it you don’t like Senator McCain much. Not trying to tell you what to do but maybe we should not try to discourage the folks when everyone is so happy about McCains performance at last nights debate.

[af_vet_rr]

I've never hidden the fact that I'm not happy with McCain's selection (or where the GOP has been headed since 2001), but I applauded him a few times last night and even mentioned it in this thread or the other one.

That said, I was also very critical of his performance - I feel that while what he says plays well to Republicans, that he's ignoring the voters that will decide this election - the moderates, undecideds, and independents.

Bush won with those people in 2000, but he began losing them in 2004. Rove was able to counter the losses in 2004 by bringing in new voters, but by 2006, the GOP had lost enough of them that it was reflected in the Democrat victories in Congress.

I'm upset with McCain because I'm watching him repeat the mistakes that George H.W. Bush made in 1992 and Bob Dole made in 1996.

You know what platform Clinton won with?

Change, the economy, and health care. Does that sound familiar? It's a major part of Obama's platform.

If McCain does not focus on what matters to moderates, undecideds, and independents, and what's needed to win these people in the next couple of weeks, we are doomed to an Obama presidency. He gets caught up in stuff that those people do not care about (and Obama is more than happy to goad him into that), and they tune him out. We've only got a few weeks left, and if McCain does not focus on going after the voters he needs, rather the voters he already has, then he will lose.