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What if McCain knows what he's doing?
American Thinker ^ | October 07, 2008 | Charlie Martin

Posted on 10/07/2008 5:04:27 AM PDT by vietvet67

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To: beagleone

What if McCain knows what he’s doing?

Imagine that!


61 posted on 10/07/2008 6:27:19 AM PDT by jokemoke
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To: randita
He blew by Maria Schriver like a bull in a china closet.

Hey, I've got to like him for that.

62 posted on 10/07/2008 6:29:08 AM PDT by Tax-chick (This is embarassing! Have a Guinness and pull yourselves together!)
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To: fightinJAG
But this is a situation where you have to pull out all the stops on third and long.

More like what Peyton Manning and the Colts did this past weekend.

Pull their chestnuts out of the fire; 17 down with 5 minutes left in the game, and win by four.

63 posted on 10/07/2008 6:38:31 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: vietvet67
What if McCain knows what he's doing?

Not possible.

I know, I read FR. He's a doofus.

64 posted on 10/07/2008 6:48:34 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (OVERPRODUCTION......... one of the top five worries for American farmers.)
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To: vietvet67

ping for later


65 posted on 10/07/2008 6:52:48 AM PDT by pctech
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To: pctech

bttt


66 posted on 10/07/2008 7:03:21 AM PDT by petercooper (IQ tests for all voters!)
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To: vietvet67

He needs to pull another Palin out of the hat. No pressure or anything Senator McCain, but a loss tonight is a loss for America forever. Our very foundation of government is at risk.

I just keep thinking about 1994. The Mainstream media had the Dems picking up seats and at the very least maintaining their numbers. Judy Woodruff’s face that night was priceless as loss after loss was reported.

I think I am confident that if given the facts Americans do not vote for marxists. However - there is so much corruption in the voting system and he is so well organized that I am not sure that stealing the election isn’t in the cards.


67 posted on 10/07/2008 7:12:56 AM PDT by ODDITHER
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To: vietvet67

The fact that Fauxbama is at a financial and tactical disadvantage is being largely ignored by pundents and the press.

He turned down matching funds, so he’s relying totally on donations, and most of that is coming from the left, so he’s finding himself at a fiscal disadvantage, and tactically he can’t move too far to the right without risking loss of funding by his backers. Fauxbama is in a bad place going into the end of this race folks, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

McCain is going to open up with both barrels, and all those questions that Fauxbama’s been dodging he’s going to have to deal with, and he’s going to fall apart like he always has when these topics have come up, only now, he can’t get away with it.

Bloods in the water, the press is smelling it, and as much as they want to prop up the guy, individual desires for pulitzers and such are going to outway political loyalties once the feeding frenzy begins.


68 posted on 10/07/2008 7:28:17 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: RightFighter

“I’m not sure if it shows that I am surrounded by those who are equally smart or equally stupid, but either way, it’s nice to be surrounded by one’s peers. :)”......

At least equally independent thinkers....


69 posted on 10/07/2008 7:46:35 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: mapmaker77
Whatever his faults, Johnny Mac is not stupid and he has some smart people working for him.

He's also tenacious and a fighter. The only people worrying are those who wring their hands at the first sign of opposition. McCain and Palin aren't such people.

No one said this would be easy. If we want to win, we've got to work for it!
70 posted on 10/07/2008 7:51:31 AM PDT by Antoninus (Ignore the polls. They're meant to shape public opinion, not measure it.)
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To: AFreeBird

From your lips to God’s ears!


71 posted on 10/07/2008 9:17:47 AM PDT by fightinJAG (Fly the flag!)
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To: Tax-chick

Maybe I’m tired. Maybe I just want this course to be over.

I listened to a few minutes of the debate last night and fell asleep. One old man was speaking and the other was a bloviating blowhard similar to one I’ve heard before.

I fear that OODA loop is a brand of jelly you put on “toast.”

F


72 posted on 10/08/2008 10:55:14 AM PDT by Frank Sheed (Fr. V. R. Capodanno, Lt, USN, Catholic Chaplain. 3rd/5th, 1st Marine Div., FMF. MOH, posthumously.)
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To: vietvet67

I think he does know what he is doing. Many of the naysayers on this board feel that they have full information on what is going on in this election and the fact is, they do not.

Internal polling is frequently different and much more accurate than the public polls and they move on based upon the internal polling, not the public polls.

John McCain was careful in what he said last night which leads me to believe that the internal polls are showing a different situation than we are seeing in the press.

Just a reminder, most of the public polls showed a dead heat two days before before Reagan smashed Jimmy Carter. Obvioulsy cooked polls in that instance, and I don’t perceive that anything has changed in the intervening years.


73 posted on 10/08/2008 11:15:57 AM PDT by TexanToTheCore
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To: TexanToTheCore

Agree.

If the media is cooked then we can assume that Obama’s favorable polling numbers are too..


74 posted on 10/08/2008 11:36:21 AM PDT by vietvet67
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To: Frank Sheed

I hope you feel better soon.


75 posted on 10/08/2008 1:05:03 PM PDT by Tax-chick (This is embarassing! Have a Guinness and pull yourselves together!)
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To: vietvet67

bttt


76 posted on 10/08/2008 1:11:41 PM PDT by Guenevere (We will NOT collapse.The New World Order WILL collapse.This is our last chance!)
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To: randita
I have to think he's learned a lot since then. Besides, how cool would you act if you knew you were going to win. There are several story lines slowly converging, just in time for the election. Not just the economic crisis story which Obama is tied to, there are the raids on ACORN in several states, Rezko appears to be making a deal, the Ayers connection has become too impossible to ignore, Jerome Corsi, author of The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, was detained in Kenya, which means more will read the book, the large foreign campaign donations that are raising questions and more and more.

I don't agree with McCain on several issues and wanted someone else to be the nominee, but I very much respect him. For such an easy target as Obama, I'm starting to believe that McCain's working to a well timed missile and gun lock Obama and his campaign to shoot them down on election day. If he does it right, the corruption on the left will be impossible to miss and even for the msm. We all see it from here.

77 posted on 10/08/2008 8:14:16 PM PDT by GBA
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