Posted on 10/13/2008 1:21:13 AM PDT by MartinaMisc
Its time for John McCain to fire his campaign.
He has nothing to lose. His campaign is totally overmatched by Obamas. The Obama team is well organized, flush with resources, and the candidate and the campaign are in sync. The McCain campaign, once merely problematic, is now close to being out-and-out dysfunctional. Its combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has become toxic. If the race continues over the next three weeks to be a conventional one, McCain is doomed.
He may be anyway. Bush is unpopular. The media is hostile. The financial meltdown has made things tougher. Maybe the situation is hopeless and if it is, then nothing McCain or his campaign does matters.
But Im not convinced by such claims of inevitability. McCain isnt Bush. The media isnt all-powerful. And the economic crisis still presents an opportunity to show leadership.
The 2008 campaign is now about something very big both our future prosperity and our national security. Yet the McCain campaign has become smaller.
What McCain needs to do is junk the whole thing and start over. Shut down the rapid responses, end the frantic e-mails, bench the spinning surrogates, stop putting up new TV and Internet ads every minute. In fact, pull all the ads theyre doing no good anyway. Use that money for televised town halls and half-hour addresses in prime time.
And let McCain go back to what hes been good at in the past running as a cheerful, open and accessible candidate. Palin should follow suit. The two of them are attractive and competent politicians. Theyre happy warriors and good campaigners. Set them free.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Newsflash: the Beltway insiders in the GOP are telling McCain he needs to be nicer. The source of the current MSM meme that the campaign has turned “nasty” is not the Courics of the world — who will always make stuff up to help any Democrat — no, the source of that silly meme is our own wrinkled-brow, soft speaking GOP pundits.
Is this the same William Kristol who in 1990 was predicting a disastrous loss for us in the first Gulf War? I believe it is.
...soooo Billy tell us...was it banana cream or lemon?
Hey Girlie man......we are in the fight of our life!! The Obama camp is VICIOUS....VICIOUS....have you never seen thqat guy tell Hannity he is a RACIST?? And Burton being so smug while he’s LYING?? We just don’t have those kind of people on our side.
McCain’s going on Letterman Thursday - seems to me that his strategy is to work up tough adversaries (the media), to boost negatives and ratings for his on-air showings and then disarm them face-to-face like a man. Meanwhile, Obama is sliding into old news territory for many and resorting to buying half hour blocks to ensure he’ll be heard late in the game.
I’d rather have Letterman and SNL hype at this point. Gets to the the heart of the youth and undecideds.
Thanks for all those email addresses!!!
I just heard McStain’s remark this morning...How sickening.
I am about to give up on any hope that the Marxist will not take America,
Again, I have not been home in four years, and from Europe I plan to move to the Philippines.
There is no way I will come back to a country (USA) of so many morons.
The criminal Kennedys, Puloozies, Bawnys, Reids, and assorted Dimo creeps will continue to run the government, under Hussein as president.
I hope I will have to eat my words, but I am loosing hope.
Last I saw, the polls had Obama up by four points. It’s a statistical tie, with the scared white vote unwilling to admit to a stranger that they’re afraid to be honest.
The bigger danger is the Obama supporters who insist that anyone not voting for him is a racist.
Palin is drawing crowds in the tens of thousands. Very enthusiastic crowds. Schmidt is a brilliant campaign manager. The problem is in McCain. He is stubborn and wants to do things his own way. But I guess he figures he hasn’t survived this long in life and politics without doing something right. Look how many times he has beat the odds.
i disagree. when i saw mccain had hired charlie black, i felt ill. charlie
is a genius at losing. he ran dole’s terrible campaign back in ‘96.
his time has passed and mccain needs to be shed of him. black is just an idiot.
I’m far from a Kristol fan , but Kristol is right on this one .
It seems like there are two campaigns at work here . There is no consistent message whatsoever and everytime Palin gets the camapign back on track , they send McCain in a different direction .
I feel bad for Palin , as she is pulling more than her weight and at the same time having to temper it so not to overshadow McCain .
Natchurrrally, NYT has our best interests at heart.
Suurrrre.
didn’t the cbs reporter say that obama’s plane stank and they couldn’t get a schedule on paper.
the msm is getting this man elected lock stock and barrel. he just has to be breathing.
The reasons McCain is losing the campaign are the same reasons the conservative base was ready to stay home on election day; he’s another gutless, incompetant “compassionate conservatism” RINO.
The media is part of the Obama team, Billy.
How about just hiring Bill Clinton to fight for us??
Can you imagine watching John McCain giving a 30 minute speech on prime time television? No way.
Keep on with the political ads, John.
We just need you to kick some ass at the debates.
Can you imagine watching John McCain giving a 30 minute speech on prime time television? No way.
Keep on with the political ads, John.
We just need you to kick some ass at the debates.
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