Compared to Obama?
Posted on 10/29/2008 12:42:29 PM PDT by pissant
Yesterday's Gallup shocker (a 2 point gap in the "likely voter" model) is going to have a follow up today if Drudge is right: A Rasmussen poll narrowing the gap to 3 points. Now we know why John McCain and Sarah Palin were both in PA yesterday. The election is tightening across the map as those of us who remember 1976 have been predicting all along. Barack Obama represents a much more radical alternative than Jimmy Carter did in '76, and Carter's unusual profile sent voters by the millions towards Gerald Ford in the closing days. The same thing is happening this year as the very well known and very reliable John McCain enters his last big comeback within striking distance and very much on target.
That target is the combination of Obama's plans for massive tax hikes and a "share the wealth" program and the Biden gaffe on Obama's inexperience attracting a crisis within six months. (Joe Biden also helpfully informed voters yesterday that the taregted taxpayer level is dropping already, this time to $150K).
McCain is pounding on the fact that Obama's soaring tax burden will guarantee that the market losses of the last month will not be coming back, and that even if they did, would not be left with the taxpayers who earned them. Biden's candor is forcing voters on the fence to consider who they want in charge when the mullahs of Iran make their move towards nukes or against Israel through Hezbollah --or both. (See Michael Barone's latest for a summary of Obama's commitment to the biggest mistakes made in the Depression-era: raising taxes and trade barriers. HT RobinsonandLong.com.)
If the polls tighten any further, panic will grip the inside of Team Obama. In fact, the quick jumps toward McCain guarantees that the GOP will stay energized through the end of the campaign. McCain voters know how hard the MSM has been working to demoralize them and keep them home, and the backfiring of the attempt is wonderful to behold.
I have been in Colorado and Minnesota with my colleagues Dennis Prager and Michael Medved, and will be at another rally with them tonight in Cleveland. I have never seen such extraordinary turnouts or enthusiasm. The GOP base is every bit as passionate and activated as the Democratic base, outraged at the MSM and deeply worried about the prospects of an Obama-Pelosi-Reid troika doing long lasting damage to the economic and national security of the country as well as to its Constitution through hard left judicial appointees.
In a 50/50 country, every presidential election is going to be close, and this one is no different, no matter how often goofy polls and MSNBC tells you otherwise.
Be sure to do your part: Send any bitter, gun-and-God-clinging PA voters you know the link to Perry Nunley's "Redneck Date" at www.amaze.fm to remind them of the Obama-Murtha contempt for their beliefs and region.
After McCain wins, we the people need to hold the MSM and the pollsters accountable. We should stop supporting the people who buy advertising time on MSM programs. And demand that Congress enact legislation that requires the media to be neutral or register as a political committee. Some with the pollsters. IF they are off by more than 2%, they need to register as a PAC the next election. This will force them to tell the truth and be accurate. Freedom of speech vs. manipulation of a Federal election.
Michael Steele would have made a great headliner on the ticket. He’s a thousand times more qualified than The One.
2012?
Take a deep breath. We are all friends here. I’m sure the poster meant associate justice, not chief justice.
Just go vote, and take a McCain voter with you.
Let us pray: The “silenced” majority is about to ROAR.
Compared to Obama?
We both began working in our early twenties pursued advanced degrees and will be damned to let Obama, Biden and the liberals squander what we make by giving handouts to people who dont work. Helping the middle class..? What they plan on doing is eliminating the middle class.
You would think that a clown who sees himself as the great wealth distributor would have at least created some wealth or jobs in his life.
2008- this election.
2010- Congressional Mid term’s.
2012- Next Presidential election.
Better bone up on it. John Roberts is the Chief Justice.
Steele couldn’t win MD.
[After McCain wins, we the people need to hold the MSM and the pollsters accountable. ]
Might I add Nancy Boy “conservative” pundits as well. They have ZERO credibility from now on, and the best part is now everyone knows it. Die! MSM! Die!
"don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes!" Col. Prescott, Bunker Hill/Breed's Hill... although i don't know who really was the first to use this quote...
McCain-Palin probably won’t either. Go figure.
Lot of liberals between the Potomac and the Patapsco.
thanks for the correction!
I just thought of Andy Jackson-a great president!
Does this surprise you?
They vote their pocketbooks.
he may have said it... the quote has been attributed to others besides Prescott... i just taught early American History to my boys about a year ago, so it was fresh in my mind! my kids thought the quote was quite funny...
I took 5 McCain voters with me. How’s that?
“Jimmy Carter was a former governor and a peanut farmer. Obama is a former community organizer with no executive experience. At least Carter had some executive experience, although he turned out to be one of the most incompetent Presidents in US history, and people knew what a peanut was...they don’t know what a community organizer is.”
People also don’t know much more about Obama.
In President Carter’s case, he was a graduate of the United States Naval Academy in physics. He served on diesel-electric submarines and was training for command of nuclear submarines. He had a very loving relations with his family, his brother, and his mother.
About all I know about Obama is he had a couple of fathers, a half-brother in Kenya who lives frugally, an aunt he wrote about in his book but was unable to contact in Boston, and who is illegally in the country. I also know he doesn’t want anyone to see his Birth Certificate and seems mixed up in his understanding of his white mother black-father thing which seems to be the foundation of his radical views and associations with radicals, leftists, and similarly annointed people.
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