Do they really think this? This is as funny as the Bush weather machine that took out New Orleans."
I'm sure the Halliburton voting machine is in their comments somewhere....
Posted on 10/26/2008 2:28:56 PM PDT by Wegotsarah.com
US Republican presidential nominee John McCain says he can guarantee a win in next week's election, but says the result will be very close.
Senator McCain, who has been trailing Democratic rival Barack Obama by more than 10 points in some national and state polls, said his campaign was "doing fine" with the polls nine days away.
"Those polls have consistently shown me much farther behind then we actually are," he said. "We're doing fine.
"We've closed in the last week and if we continue this close in the next week you're going to be up very late on election night.
"I guarantee you that two weeks from now you'll see that this has been a very close race and I guarantee you I'm going to win it."
"We are very competitive in those areas [key states] and we're going to have to just get out our vote and work very hard over the next nine days."
Later Senator McCain addressed a rally at the University of North Iowa on a swing through the midwestern state where Senator Obama enjoys a near 12-point lead according to an average on realclearpolitics.com.
As he is expected to do throughout the remainder of the campaign, Senator McCain relentlessly rammed home his contention that Senator Obama is a closet socialist hellbent on raising taxes on ordinary Americans.
The 72-year-old former Navy pilot also struck a defiant stance as he told supporters he relished the election fight.
"I'm not afraid of the fight - I'm ready for it," he stated.
He also repeated his claim - angrily denied by the Obama camp - that the Democratic nominee had already begun drafting his inauguration speech.
"What America needs now is someone who'll finish the race before starting the victory lap....'
(More at site)
(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...
I have an elderly relative who was in politics in the 1960s. Her statement is that Nixon did not contest the election because he feared for his life and he knew he would have another chance.
That could very well be. Lyndon Johnson and Daley were not ones to be trifled with back then. Here’s a less conspiratoral view of it from a search:
“Back in 1960, more than a few outraged Republicans urged Nixon to challenge the results in Illinois and Texas, even if that meant putting the election on hold for several weeks – or even months.
But Nixon refused to pursue the matter, saying at the time that he did not want to be responsible for delaying the transition of power from one administration to the next.
That was true, but only as far as it went. In an interview some years later, Nixon told a reporter he had given very serious thought to taking legal action that, if successful, would have reversed the results in the two contested states – and made him the president-elect.
He said the main reason he decided against that course was because Kennedy had won the popular vote. And even though JFK’s margin of victory was extremely slender (barely more than 100,000 votes) it was a clear plurality, and Nixon said he had no stomach for a fight that would pit him against the will of the people – even if it did lead him to an electoral triumph.”
All the Dem hubris reminds me of the French swimming relay team bragging at the Olympics how they would just CRUSH the USA.
Thanks for the reminder. I have read this or a similar article previously.
The yes answer was half right. Kerry led by similar numbers (in an even less MSM Dem/Commie-loving environment) in 2004, but the Gorebot was trailing at this point in 2000. Eight years ago, less five days, is when the Bush DUI “news” came out reducing Bush’s then ~8% lead.
Please note the end of article here:
“Editor’s note: In an earlier version of this story published on October 27, 2008 under the headline ‘I guarantee you, I’ll win: McCain’ ABC News quoted Senator McCain as saying: ‘I guarantee you that two weeks from now you’ll see that this has been a very close race and I guarantee you I’m going to win it.’
In fact, Senator McCain said: ‘I guarantee you that two weeks from now you’ll see that this has been a very close race and I believe I’m going to win it.’ Senator McCain was not in fact seeking to “guarantee” a victory but simply stating his belief that he would win the presidential campaign.”
A POX on MSM!!
Yes...I immediately thought of how they twisted Rep. King's We'll take care of the counting" comment.
The idiots on the left actually believe the cheaters aren’t them.
Scary but true.
Talking with them is kinda bizarre.
Worse, my FRiend: a pentefecta of Executive, Senate, House, Media, and Supreme Court!
Interesting. Thanks for clearing that up.
Do they really think this? This is as funny as the Bush weather machine that took out New Orleans."
I'm sure the Halliburton voting machine is in their comments somewhere....
Yes!
My sister is very pro-abortion (she prefers to be called pro-choice) and very Dem, yet voted for Bush twice because Gore and Kerry were so inadequate. She was thrilled to have 0bama come along (she hates Hillary). She and I haven't talked politics since July so I don't know how she feels about Palin, but I bet 0bama is starting to make her ill. :)
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