Posted on 04/27/2008 7:26:55 AM PDT by Liz
For reasons of financial necessity, personal preference and plain politics, John McCain is gearing up to run one of the least traditional presidential campaigns in recent history.......McCain and his key advisers have largely been forced into devising a three-pronged strategy they hope can turn their general election weaknesses into strengths. McCain will lean heavily on the well-funded RNC. He will merge key functions of his campaign hierarchy with the RNC while also relying on an unconventional structure of 11 regional campaign mangers....perhaps most importantly - McCain will rely on free media to an unprecedented degree that aims to not only minimize his financial disadvantage but also drive a triangulated contrast among himself, the Democratic nominee and President Bush.
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To show what a really obeisant candidate he is, McC is forming The Take-It-Away Aztlan Givaway Committee with Juan Hernandez as Chief Taker. McC is also is reorganizing The Bureau of Scientific Relations, staffed by experienced experts from the defunct White House Office of Special Ops. OF COURSE McC consulted with his handlers, Billy Kristol and his daddy....that's when McCain personally decided he wants Billy or his daddy as his Special Ops'ters. Course, Billy has to find out if Fox News will give him time off to be an Op.
Continue to shaft conservatives is the plan. I mean who are gonna vote for? Hussien or Cankles?
There will be some on this forum who will do that in the general election. To teach the Republican party a lesson, I suppose.
Sheer idiocy.
McCain had better keep his mouth shut when prodded by the liberals and stick to a plan to get elected as a Republican. Limbaugh toasted him on Friday and I agreed with every word he said.
“Any conservative with any sense of decency will not vote for him.”
Not I. I’m definitely in the McCain camp if the Obammunist is his opponent.
I have a few misgivings about McCain’s foreign policy — his approach with Russia and China is way too hardline. Our top priority should be keeping nbcs out of the hands of jihadists, starting with the leadership in Tehran.
But this would be an argument for Clinton, not the libertarian hippies. Clinton already said she would “obliterate” Iran if they did anything stupid, and the Clintons did use robust airstrikes against Iraq in the 90s.
Still, that Hillary wants to reject NAFTA (the key element of the 1990s prosperity), confiscate business profits, have a state takeover of healthcare simply scares the bejebus out of me.
What a hoot!
Right. These are the same people who, 8 years ago, howled on and on about how George W. Bush was a leftist plant, a RINO, closet Democrat, etc. etc....all they’re proving is that the radical right is barely distinguishable from the radical left—they both would see the nation destroyed just in spite.
He is an adulterer, abandoned our POW, pushed CFR - but does not want it to apply to him, is obsessed with amnesty and even voted against the Cronyn amendment, admitted he knows little about the economy, is unfamiliar about al Qaeda, need Lieberman to provide him with answers, is unable to reply to simple questions, lies like a sociopath, talks as if he is medicated or exhausted, flies into abnormal rages, etc.
Cindy has lots of baggage and interesting that she refused to release her tax statements. I am not the only one who has felt for years that he and Cindy are creepy.
“NAFTA - the key element of the 1990s prosperity”
You sure have a funny definition of prosperity.
Hollowing out resource exploitation and durable goods production while piling up little green slips of paper and bad debt, and flooding the wage labor market with illiterate peasants is not prosperity, no matter how many times the lie is repeated.
They selected Chuck "Cut And Run From Iraq" Baldwin as their presidential candidate, which did not endear them to their supporters who are in favor of the War on Terror.
So all McCain needs is for the MSM to report on his campaign honestly and objectively and he's got a fighting chance. That sounds like a plan!
McCain is the only pro-life candidate of the three. If you’re (and I mean genearlly not you Ilya) a conservative and care about life you will swallow your pride and vote McCain. He isn’t perfect — or even close — but there is a world of difference and millions of lives between him and Obama/Hillary.
If Stevens is replaced by a pro-life USSC judge Roe v. Wade will finally go the way of the Dodo. If not, it will be another thirty years of abortions everywhere.
What’s more important? Your pride. Their lives.
The proof is in the pudding. Witness the last few days of “controversy” over the NC GOP. He gets to distance himself from an ad that had nothing to do with his campaign. The extreme right gets lathered up about his response; the left blathers on about non-existent racism and in the end, the ad is seen by 100m people before it’s even been released on the air.
No one bothered to even ask who leaked it to the press. Take a guess. Enormous amount of free coverage of a negative ad that bolsters Hillary, knocks Obama, and keeps McCain out of the fray. The strategy is working brilliantly so far.
If McCain loses the 5% of extreme right wing nutjob freepers by not pandering to them, who cares? It’s quite obvious that they’d rather see terrorists blow up the WH and kill hundreds of thousands of Americans, than to see McCain president (and that is exactly the scenario we’d witness if their newly annointed hero Obama gets in).
All McCain needs to do is keep his mouth shut, and he’s not even capable of that. He’s too busy insulting his fellow Republican, which seems to be his real joy in life. “Innovative plan”? What a joke!
Even if this strategy gets him elected, I doubt that it will have any coat-tails. What will Mc Nasty be able to accomplish if the Dems have veto proof majorities in both Houses? I should say what will he accomplish that won’t make Conservatives retch in disgust.
McPain, hold your nose to vote.
Let me guess; In the north he will run as a Rockefeller liberal. In the south he will claim to be conservative like Reagan, and in the West he'll run as a Swartzeneggar Republican.
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