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To: presidio9
A lot of people here think a major reason why our side lost is specifically that John McCain refused to go negative and never brought up Wright or Ayers on the campaign.

Yeah, I remember the HUSSIEN-WRIGHT-AYERS crowd when I first came here. On one hand, I was accused of being a DU/Daily KOS/Obama supporting troll for saying that the voters were concerned about the economy, not HUSSIEN-WRIGHT-AYERS. Yet on the same threads, they would say that Obama's supporters didn't know about Wright and Ayers because the MSM wasn't reporting it. And they couldn't see the contradiction in this. Funny thing is, many of THEM have since been banned.

I looking forward to Gingrich or Santorum doing just that.

Not me. Everyone who cares about those issues is already voting against Obama. They need to stick with the issues that the Independents and undecideds care about, which is how Obama has performed as President.

39 posted on 01/04/2012 4:52:13 PM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Compassionate Conservatism? Promoting self reliance is compassionate. Promoting dependency is not.)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty
Not me. Everyone who cares about those issues is already voting against Obama. They need to stick with the issues that the Independents and undecideds care about, which is how Obama has performed as President.

Wrong. A majority of the people who will be voting have never heard of either Bill Ayers or Jeremiah Wright, because Obama got exactly one question from the MSM during the entire campaign. It came from George Stephanopolus, who himself had never heard of Rev. Wright until the day before, when Sean Hannity asked him why he and his colleagues were letting Senator Obama slide on that one.

The majority of voters only pay close attention to politics for six weeks or so every four years. They do no listen to political talk radio, and they do not watch cable news. This is particularly true of independents. Of course voters are concerned with the economy, but character also matters. The MSM built up a false character profile of Obama, and they will do so again if our candidate lets them. He can't run on his record, so he will make character a major issue, regardless of who is opponent is.

You don't sound like a troll to me, you sound naive.

40 posted on 01/04/2012 5:01:05 PM PST by presidio9 (www.catholicscomehome.org)
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