Positively bizarre. Seconds after saying “I got your message,” he’s saying it’s NOT IMPORTANT to defeat Obama.
I’ve been thinking about this a little bit with regards to what McCain was saying. Yep, I’m a little frustrated with his answer, but I believe he’s thinking that things could turn violent given how angry people are over everything. He could have worded it better where he could have went after Obama passionately on the issues and then told the people to take their frustration and vote!
This shows me that WI and MN are very much in play, which is not what the polls say - the Ayres issue is becoming a huge issue with voters and rightfully so. Now, if Obama is supposed to be winning this in a “landslide”, then why is he buying 30 minutes of airtime on the networks and engaging in voter fraud?
Bizarre indeed, but vintage McCain. He got our message about “comprehensive immigration reform” too. He plainly didn't agree with the message or plan to absorb and act on it in any way, but he got it. McCain is just throwing us a bone. It's insulting.
You can't win an election if your front man can't make your arguments because he doesn't believe them. The financial crisis has turned next month's vote into a referendum on capitalism. McCain is an authoritarian statist who doesn't care a bit about freedom, economic or otherwise. Occasionally he'll go on a riff about how his POW experience makes him prize liberty. Unfortunately he's talking about the absence of incarceration. He has never grasped what liberty means beyond that.
McCain won't argue for capitalism because he doesn't believe in it. He won't attack Obama as a socialist revolutionary because, fundamentally, he's got no problem with socialism.
The man would be a disaster if he came on the heals of a Reagan. Following W, who never had the ability or inclination to defend himself against his political enemies, McCain may mark the moment when the decline of Western Civilization became irreversible.
It is hard to understand how Republicans could have screwed up this badly during the primary season, but they did.