Posted on 10/13/2008 12:23:38 PM PDT by Obadiah
On CNN last evening both David Gergen and Ed Rollins echoed the current mantra that the "old" noble McCain is gone-and a "new" nastier one has emerged, largely because of his attacks on Ayers, perhaps his planned future ads on Wright, and a few unhinged people shouting at his campaign stops.
Recently Christopher Buckley endorsed Obama, likewise lamenting the loss of the old noble McCain. New York Times columnist David Brooks dubbed Palin a "cancer," and he suggested that Obama's instant recall of Niehbuhr sent a tingle up his leg as Obama once did to Chris Matthews as well.
A couple of thoughts: the George Bush, Sr. / Willie Horton campaign was far tougher; so were the Bush 2000/2004 efforts. If anything, McCain's campaign is subdued in comparison to what we've seen on both sides in past years. Indeed, McCain as a vicious campaigner is a complete fabrication, but, again, a brilliant subterfuge on the part of Team Obama that, in fact, has run, via appendages, the far more vicious race.
Obama and his surrogates have repeatedly engaged in racial politics (as Bill Clinton lamented when in fury he denounced the "race card"). When there was never evidence that McCain was using race as a wedge issue, it was clear Obama most surely was--preemptively, on at least two occasions--warning Americans he would soon be the victim of opposition racial stereotyping.
His surrogates like Biden and those in the Senate continue to link legitimate worries about Obama's past with racism. Second, for about 3 months all we've heard are references to McCain's age, with adjectives and phrases like confused, can't remember any more, disturbed, lost his bearings, etc.
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We are now finding out who are real friends are!
They know better.
I can hear the tsk,tsk,tsk class from here:
Gee golly shucks. Who does McCain think he is, fighting back like that. He should just continue to take it - win by showing his stiff upper lip - or lose with dignity. We thought he had more class than that
Of course, Obama and the like can always do or say whatever they want. No one ever tsk tsk tsk’s them.
And if they do, they get called racist.
First rule of picking a fight:
There are no rules in a fight.
Second rule of picking a fight:
If you’re going to fight, win.
Third rule of picking a fight:
If you’re not going to fight to win, don’t fight at all.
FIGHT JOHN. YOU MAKE THEM TAKE IT AWAY FROM YOU.
vaudine
Politics is a blood sport. If the wienie libs cannot play without whining, they need to get out of the game.
This is their current talking point — and I’ll be you anything they placed shills in McCain’s crowds to do this.
The other thing is — it is OK to get angry, and believe me, the DC folks need to know that We the People are angry and it is legitimate and it is directed at THEM.
They are trying to make the FEELING the problem, as a way to teflon the blame.
It’s alcoholic family stuff.
I’m not sure C. Buckley has jumped ship on McCain. He says he didn’t vote for GW Bush in 2004 (he wrote in GHW Bush).
So apparently he jumped onto the Democrats’ ship a few years ago.
Gergen is a conservative? Since when?
Gergen, like so many present or past inhabitants of Washington, D.C., is an opportunist.
I think Gergen and Rollins have been bitten by the Obama tingler. Drink your Kool-Aid boys!
Moreover, so far, McCain supporters have not broken into Biden's email, or accused Biden of being a Nazi, or accused anyone of not bearing one of their own children, or photo-shopped grotesque pictures of Obama on the Internet (as in the Atlantic magazine case). I don't think deranged McCain supporters in Hollywood or television almost daily are quoted as damning Obama in unusually crude terms. Nor are white racist ministers calling McCain a 'messiah' or McCain operatives fraudulently swarming voter registration centers.
Where is George Will, Bill Kristol, Ed Rollins, David Frum, et. al.? Why are they not calling this stuff out while they share Starbucks coffee on the set?
“OBAMA’S ATTACKS are straight out of rules for radicals—attack a target and destroy it.”
No, he’s using the communist rule book, accuse your enemy of what you are doing.
David Gergen worked for Bil Slick Willie Clinton, and Ed Rollins what can i say? Is a RINO!
I think one thing would win this for McCain.... demand prison time for the crooks and transparency from here on out!
John McCain is gonna have to get alot angrier if he even wants to reflect an iota of the public sentiments.
Damn you, Policical Whores! You forgot who pays your salary. You must remember you need our consent to govern.
Second rule of picking a fight:
If you’re going to fight, win.
Third rule of picking a fight:
If you’re not going to fight to win, don’t fight at all.
Fourth rule of picking a fight:
If you're going to a gunfight, don't take a knife. Take a bigger gun.
David Gergen is a bigger one.
Why do you think they work for CNN?
Ed Rollins. They are really scraping the bottom of the barrel looking for ‘conservatives’ that’ll sing their tune. I even saw Delay on FOX. I’m like: what were they thinking? If we can’t get Sarah elected this round we’ll try again in ‘12. Ed Rollins, gimme a break!
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