Posted on 10/28/2008 1:19:04 PM PDT by Fred
Zogby, Rasmussen and Gallup all report McCain closing to 5 points back. Zogby had him 12 back, Rasmussen 8 and Gallup 6 in their previous polling. McCain's use of the Joe the Plumber and the tax issue in his ads is working!
Unilaterally, John McCain agreed to disarm himself by refusing to use perhaps his most potent weapon in exposing Barack Obama: the Democrats' relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The McCain campaign and, at its direction, the Republican Party, have banned use of footage of Rev. Wright from their campaign commercials. Perhaps for fear of being accused of racism, they are not bringing up the single most compromising association in Obama's past - his close liaison with Rev. Wright.
But it does not matter that Rev. Wright is black, white, or brown...or purple. What matters is that he spews hatred of the United States and that Obama was an active participant in his church. Or are we supposed to believe that Obama regularly attended church with Wright for two decades, chose the Reverend to baptize his children and officiate at his wedding, titled his book Audacity of Hope after a sermon of the Reverend's, but did not know of his anti-American views? Nonsense.
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The only time the issue has been used was during the Democratic primary when Obama's ties to Wright were first revealed and the Reverend's horrific anti-American sermons were aired on television. Even then, Obama tried to distance himself from Wright in the mildest of possible terms, only denouncing him more sternly after the relationship had begun to sap his standing in the polls.
Fortunately, one independent expenditure group --- NationalRepublicanTrust.com- has the courage to bring the truth about Rev. Wright to the attention of the American people. NationalRepublicanTrust.com has prepared a hard-hitting advertisement that features some of Wright's worst rantings and explains the intimate relationship over twenty years between the preacher and the politician. NationalRepublicanTrust.com, of course, is funded by individual donations, so their financial resources are limited.
As we enter the final week, this election is not yet over. Zogby shows Obama's lead collapsing from 12 points on Thursday of last week to just five points over this past weekend. Other polls have Obama's lead in the 5-7 point range, little enough ground to close in six more days. Only surveys that have quotas for large number of Democratic participants show Obama's lead to be in double digits.
But McCain will not win with one hand tied behind his back. So now is the time for all good Republicans to come to the aid of their party and run the ads that should be run to defeat Barack Obama.
6 plus days to go! Looking good.
It is looking good as long as McCain doesn’t go wobbly again. He needs to stick to the tax issue and he needs to keep Obama on the defense on the socialism issue.
Agreed
I donated 50 to this PAC today... my first donation to PAC or campaign ever. Hopefully, this ad will have some effect.
Do NOT be fooled.
Go vote.
If Juan McCain won’t use Jeremiah Wright, it’s up to the GOP 527’s. We’re going to have to drag McCain over the line if we have to.
I must say CNN is consistent. While they should be focusing on McCain attacks on Obama’s tax plan and Obama’s tape in 2001 on redistributing the wealth, they keep harping on Sarah being a rogue, a diva or a whack job and preparing herself for a Presidential run in 2012. Of course CNN doesn’t mention that this mentally unstable lady is attracting SRO audiences wherever she goes. I guess that means that her audiences must be crzy as well. Of course they also ignore what Dick Morris is pointing out today is that John and Sarah have the momentum now and this race with a week to go to voting day is beginning to tighten. That would upset the theme of the narrative.
I bet DU are having conniptions.....
Just made another donation to this 527. I doubt McCain will say boo about this ad.
True.
One of the best Bible "learning" churches I've ever been in. I never heard anything like the stuff I've heard Wright preach.
That being said.....I wouldn't be surprised to find out 60-70% of the black members were voting for Obama.
Only because of voter ignorance...which I happen to think is pandemic.
Right, the economic issue has killed him. Stick to shoring up the weakest part of your platform.
Post signs on busy streets, like “Socialism = Failure” and “Obama is a Socialist.” Easy to print from a Word document. Take them to Kinko’s and make copies (cheap).
For 5 bucks, you can post 50 signs that maybe 100,000 will see in the next week (busy intersections get tens of thousands of cars per day).
Right, let other people do it.
By now, it simply looks like desperation.
Economy, economy, economy. That is the most important issue right now.
As a sitting VP, because my understanding is that McCain has remarked he would only serve one term.
He sounded pretty fired up in Penn today.
Starting to move. Good news on Dow today doesn’t hurt either.
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