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Morris: "McCain is losing the election this minute"
Fox News | 9/30/08

Posted on 09/30/2008 1:33:52 PM PDT by pabianice

Dick Morris on Fox: McCain is bungling the bail-out issue so badly that he has basically lost the election by "a lot; will be 12 points behind Obama next week." McCain "is giving this issue away to Obama" by being ineffective and not pinning it rightfully on Pelosi, ACORN, and the Dems.

Pro-Obama ads are running 3-1 vs. McCain ads. Obama videos/Yoytube are running ten to one against McCain. I can't understand how a brave warrior like McCain can be so blind and go down with no fight. HOW can McCain let the ACORN issue just slide away?


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 110th; anotherdamnvanity; bailout; dickmorris; mccain; morriseatskielbasa; morriseatstoes; morrisneedstogotogym; palinwins
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To: pabianice
I don't disagree with the toe sucker on this one. McCain's position on the bailout is incomprehensible. It only makes sense if you're fixated on "bipartisanship" above all else.

Morris' take was that McCain should embrace the ideas of the Republicans who voted against the bill, and draw a clear distinction between his position and Obama's.

If Palin has to go forth in the debate and try to explain McCain's position on this bill, she's going to get slaughtered. It's time for McCain to start doing some of that OODA voodoo that he was so masterful with after the convention.
21 posted on 09/30/2008 1:40:25 PM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (Don't call us, Barry. We'll call you.)
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To: pabianice

I agree.

McCain should come out against a government bailout.

I like Gingrich’s plan for a workout instead.

GINGRICH: “I think, first of all, they should replace the current snapshot to market with a rolling three-year average.

I think, second, they should change the current loan reserve pattern so it’s not pro-cyclical.

I think, third, they should zero capital gains.

I think, fourth, they need to adopt an energy plan to keep about $500 billion a year here at home instead of going overseas.

But on a practical level, if they need to open up a window to loan money to treasury plus 2 percent, and people want to come in and borrow the money and the responsibility (ph) of a workout not a bailout, and those people want to work their way out over the next three to five years. I’m comfortable saying this is a liquidity crisis; let’s meet it; let’s loan the money. But let’s make sure they are responsible for their bad debt, and they’re going to work their way out.

This idea that we’re going to buy the paper and some bureaucrat in Washington is going to be responsible for $700 billion in bad paper, I think, is socialism at its worst. I can’t imagine why this administration is doing it. I think it is profoundly wrong, and I hope it is defeated if it comes to the floor in this form.”

http://newt.org/tabid/102/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/3742/Default.aspx

And finally, raise the limit on FDIC insurance on savings.


22 posted on 09/30/2008 1:40:27 PM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: misterrob

“McCain is the 2008 version of Bob Dole...”

I was gonna say this, but you beat me to it.


23 posted on 09/30/2008 1:40:27 PM PDT by rdax
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To: counterpunch

Yea, yea.

I suppose you think it’s still going to be Hillary vs. Condi in the Presidential race.


24 posted on 09/30/2008 1:40:35 PM PDT by stevestras
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To: pabianice

I thought Morris thought the campaign suspension was a good thing and that he was going to win the campaign with it? That guy, like most TV pontificators, talks out of both sides of his arse.


25 posted on 09/30/2008 1:41:11 PM PDT by Harry Wurzbach (Rep. Thaddeus McCotter is my hero.)
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To: pabianice

Another negative VANITY?

How about I post 50 positive vanities today?

Why don’t we all start posting 2 sentence vanities of good news?

Who needs the MSM when Freepers post negative vanities that would make them SCREAM if they came from the MSM?


26 posted on 09/30/2008 1:41:11 PM PDT by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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To: pabianice

Morris is usually wrong. He’s an opportunist, and he doesn’t care what he says as long as it will please whoever he’s nosing up to at the moment.

But in this case, he’s right. McCain is miserably screwing this up.


27 posted on 09/30/2008 1:41:36 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: GoCards

He’s gone after Obama hard. Plenty of good ads but you know, he’s just NOT THAT IMPRESSIVE as a candidate. He sucks on policy, he gives a lame speech and he’s done really bad with getting surrogates out there for him.


28 posted on 09/30/2008 1:41:44 PM PDT by misterrob (Obama-Keep the Change!)
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To: pabianice

Thanks to McCain’s bipartisan priorities, we can all look forward to our kids learning to sing like this to the future “Dear Leader”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW9b0xr06qA

US of North Korea, thanks to McCain when Obama wins.


29 posted on 09/30/2008 1:41:49 PM PDT by mathprof
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To: zwerni
Since when did McCain become the conservative people's choice? The MSM would have people believe we were once behind him but now our support is waning. He still isn't the choice for many of us. Your tagline says it all.
30 posted on 09/30/2008 1:41:57 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: TheWasteLand
They need to attack, relentlessly

Agreed

But, they NEVER do. Ever. The right ABSOLUTELY SUCKS at countering the lefts BS.

31 posted on 09/30/2008 1:41:57 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: misterrob

“McCain is the 2008 version of Bob Dole.....”

Beginning to look true. Hopefully the strength of his VP candidate and the incredible (but heretofore unexploited) weaknesses of his opposition will help him limp across the finish line ahead.


32 posted on 09/30/2008 1:42:17 PM PDT by raptor29
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To: pabianice

Morris is even more right than he knows. Such a move by McCain would neutralize Obama and put the Rats back on defense. The McCain=Bush meme would be lost for Obama and that seems to be his only weapon outside of 1000’s of eager and willing deceased that will vote for him.


33 posted on 09/30/2008 1:42:57 PM PDT by WildcatClan (The world is full of fatheads; so I invented Diet Shampoo)
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To: pabianice

That is maddening, why isn’t McCain still running ads? Is his campaign “still suspended” or what?


34 posted on 09/30/2008 1:42:59 PM PDT by padre35 (Sarah Palin is the one we've been waiting for..Rom 10.10..)
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To: Russ

Obama is getting a boost because of Bush. The no more 4 years is key! Not a republican.


35 posted on 09/30/2008 1:43:09 PM PDT by GoCards
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To: pabianice

Damn! It’s like Sarah Palin is CARRYING the hopes of the GOP on her shoulders. I hate McCain as well, but the alternative of Obama makes one to vote for Mccain BECAUSE of Obama.


36 posted on 09/30/2008 1:43:20 PM PDT by max americana
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To: pabianice

Morris is partially right. McCain does need to be clear and quit trying to be all things to all people. McCain is in a holding pattern. I don’t think he is nearly as bad off as Morris is saying and I think he may have actually been recovering a bit but Morris is right on one thing. McCain needs to lead and he needs to attack Obama. Obama is attacking him and whether he likes it or not one does not win anything by taking a beating. The pity vote isn’t big enough enough.


37 posted on 09/30/2008 1:43:25 PM PDT by Maelstorm (This country was not founded with the battle cry "Give me liberty or give me a government check!")
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To: pabianice
Last fall, McCain was an idiot liberal who had no chance of winning the Republican nomination.

This spring, McCain was an idiot liberal who had no chance of beating Obama.

Today, McCain is an idiot liberal who is giving away the election by not trying to pin the economic problems on the Democrats.

In every previous case, McCain had an ace up his sleeve, and I think he does now, also. He hasn't spent eight years of Machiavellian scheming to throw it all away now just so he can look like the nice guy.

38 posted on 09/30/2008 1:43:34 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word." -- Robert Heinlein)
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To: Russ

Morris, and Newt and Hannity, among others, have been in the same relative universe since last week. And they are all correct.

Now that the deal has gone down, McCain should pin the bailout package on Obama and Bush — and let the RATS stew in their own juices.

It’s truly amazing that he is this tone-deaf. He is throwing away an electoral gift.


39 posted on 09/30/2008 1:44:10 PM PDT by mwl8787
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To: pabianice
McCain Ad Rein - Who is to Blame on Fannie/Freddie
40 posted on 09/30/2008 1:44:13 PM PDT by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism)
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