Folks here better get it through their minds that as long as Wall Street is on the front page because of no rescue package, McCain is going to lose.
There is no message that will fix that. The voters have decided who is to blame and that decision is a done deal. They aren’t reading or listening anymore to explanations to the contrary.
Either a package gets passed, before Saturday, or Obama picks 2 USSC Justices, abandons the 2nd largest oil reserves in the world in the century when it runs out, raises taxes by letting Bush’s cuts expire, starts the ball rolling towards slavery reparations and ensures gay marriage is the law of the land forever. You might want to start thinking about gay reparations, too, as a long time persecuted group. He’ll go that route as well.
Choose.
Right. I admire the House GOP for their stance, but they need to pass something by Friday.
To me 51 to 45 could be worse. Gore recovered from Similar numbers to win the popular vote in 2000.
Choose what?
Freepers are overlooking the fact that those in the mushy middle, who are the only voters still up for grabs, don’t see things the way they do. Wall Street is closely identified with the Republicans, so they get blamed for its problems. That’s not right, it’s not fair, but it’s a fact.
And when the President goes on TV telling the American people their financial system is melting down, it is going to redound negatively to the nominee of his party. Again, not right, not fair, but a fact.
Right now, McCain is losing. Not right, not fair, but a fact. He needs this issue to get off the front page and soon, or he will lose in November. He is not a good enough candidate to fight against these kinds of electoral headwinds and prevail.
The other thing he needs to do, is stop so closely aligning himself with this issue. I understand his reasoning, but if a candidate is going to make a big, fat hairy deal out of suspending his campaign and swooping in like Mighty Mouse to save the day, he should make darn sure that he can actually save the day, or he will suffer the consequences of failure.
Say what you want about Obama’s political philosophy, which I despise as much as any Freeper, but his political instincts are better than McCain’s. Or maybe his advisors are better. He knew that there was no win here, and made sure that when the caca hit the fan, he, with a little help from the MSM, wasn’t going to be the one covered in spatter. In contrast, McCain made sure he was standing directly in front of the rotating blades. And here we are.
There’s time for McCain to pull this out, but he’s going to have to get much, much smarter about what he does and says from here on out.
Very well said... I couldn’t agree more.
“Folks here better get it through their minds that as long as Wall Street is on the front page because of no rescue package, McCain is going to lose”
I agree. When you see Obama’s numbers “tipping 50”, with similar results coming from several polsters, it’s time to call a spade a spade.
I don’t see McCain retaking the initative. It may be too late and literally “too far to go”, numbers-wise.
There will be lots and lots and lots of vanities between now and the election. I won’t be posting any. But if I was to, the question I think we should be asking is: what can conservatives and Republicans do during the coming Obama administration (along with a lopsided democratic-majority Congress) to limit its effectiveness?
In the next few weeks, that will become the most important issue before us.
- John
Not to mention that he may get the filibuster proof senate needed to ram a Supreme Court packing pill through.
Don’t forget his expansion of and government funding of abortion.