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| Is McCain Throwing It (Part Rant, Part Thought Experiment)? |
| 2008-10-08 |
| Given the many flaws of the seemingly anointed Future Messiah-President, you'd think that John McCain would have at least a slim but solid lead by now. But the post-Sarah bounce - which did have the effect of pulling disaffected conservatives out of the hills and into the McCain camp, checkbooks in tow - has been entirely dissipated, and we're now back to Obama with the slim but apparently solid lead. Many of us (myself DEFINITELY included) believed that the old fighter jock had seriously cut inside Obama's OODA loop by picking Sarah, and indeed, Team Obama flailed about incoherently for a couple of weeks, staggering around and punching blindly like Apollo Creed in the 13th round. But what did McCain do after that? Well, other than introducing Sarah to the general public, not a hell of a lot. With The One still staggering from Sarah's haymaker at the RNC, where was the followup barrage on TV and online media about the rogues' gallery of Communists, terrorists, insane racist preachers, crooks and fixers who have surrounded and mentored Obama his entire political career? Yeah, yeah, I know...Obama and his media sockpuppets whined about "McCarthyism" and "guilt by association", but they'd have done that or something similar no matter WHAT criticisms Team McCain came up with - witness the recent screechings about Sarah being a racist for daring to mention The One's associations with Jeremiah Wright. It's not an unreasonable assumption that more people know who knocked up Bristol Palin than know about Obama friends and mentors who tried to murder innocent people in the name of communist revolution. Ayers is bad enough - his appalling wife is IMHO even worse. If McCain were serious about winning, this charming Bernardine quip, supporting the Charles Manson "family", would have been engraved on the brain of every voter in America: "Dig it! First they killed those pigs and then they put a fork in their bellies. Wild!" I think that the fact that Bill and Bernardine and the rest of that ghastly crew aren't securely pinned to Barack Obama's liver in the public's mind is proof that at some point, McCain wasn't truly in it to win it. What happened and why? One theory bouncing around inside my noodle is that J-Mac took a hard look at the clouds gathering around the economy, coupled with electoral math that indicated a possible veto-proof Quislingcrat Congress, and made the cold, hard decision that he didn't want to wind up as a failed President; that if he did win, the Quislingcrats would do everything they could to thwart him, the country be damned. He imagined an economy circling the drain, and the government powerless to do anything because of political paralysis, and decided that was something he couldn't be part of. So what to do with the campaign still going on? Make a good fight of it...and give Sarah Palin plenty of national exposure and big-league campaign experience. Let's face it - whatever our problems with McCain (immigration was my biggest case of the ass with him), he's done our side one HELL of a big service. Before Sarah, the only future star most of us saw was Bobby Jindal. An exciting prospect, to be sure, but there's only one of him. With Sarah, McCain in a single stroke has deepened our bench, allowing the Republican Party to complement Jindal's raw intelligence and executive abilities with the charisma of a woman whose natural political talents have impressed even Bill Clinton. and no, I don't think it was just her legs, either. Although those didn't hurt. And you know damn well ol' Slick noticed 'em, too. The prospect of Obama running amok with solid frozen in carbonite for his entire tenure. At least in '10, the Pubbies might have a chance to pull a replay of 1994 and prevent Obama from carrying on further with what's certain to be a very radical agenda. McCain doesn't like it...he really, really wanted to be President at some point in this cycle...but I suspect that "Country First" is more than a slogan to him, and the best way for him to act on that is to set the table for Jindal/ Palin. Or would it be Palin / Jindal? At least there'll be a choice! |
| Posted by:Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) |
| #2 I think McCain needs to get a theme, and make it humorous when he goes after Obama. I think two. Something like "That's just not right" combined with "Rookie move". Then have that tagged on the end of a bunch of ads showing the nation the Ayers, Bernardine, Wright. I'd also include one showing some of the more misogonyst things said by Obama or on his behalf, tag it with That's just not right" and show it everywhere Hillary voters are likely to dwell. Don't get people chanting it in a rally, that's creepy, but get it in peoples minds so that whenever they hear this stuff that flashes into their mind reinforcing that Obama is a rookie who does questionable things. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-10-08 18:39 |
| #1 I think McCain was blindsided by the economy tripping up all of a sudden and the Republicans getting blamed by a bunch of people covering their butts. I think he then waited until afterwards to go on the attack, losing momentum. Now he's got to try to regain is. A mediocre showing at the debates and a lame plan to buyout failed mortgages is not the right way to do that, however. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-10-08 18:33 |
