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No bailout. No debate.
He debated.
No wives.
He brought Mic e in.
No Wright.
He may bring him up.
Wow... and he's ing about going back on not using tax payers money for funding.
old man... just hit the old folks home.
John McCain's campaign manager says he is reconsidering using Barack Obama's relationship with Reverend Jeremiah Wright as a campaign issue during the election's closing weeks.
In an appearance on conservative Hugh Hewitt's radio program, Davis said that cir stances had changed since John McCain initially and unilaterally took Obama's former pastor off the table.
("unilaterally" meaning: Davis and the rest of McNasty's campaign sleazebags always wanted to slime HUSSEIN with Wright, no matter what one or two principles McNasty was trying to hold on to.)
The Arizona Republican, Davis argued, had been jilted by the remarks of Rep. John Lewis, who compared recent GOP crowds to segregationist George Wallace's rallies. And, as such, the campaign was going to "rethink" what was in and out of political bounds.
"Look, John McCain has told us a long time ago before this campaign ever got started, back in May, I think, that from his perspective, he was not going to have his campaign actively involved in using Jeremiah Wright as a wedge in this campaign," he said late last week.
"Now since then, I must say, when Congressman Lewis calls John McCain and Sarah Palin and his entire group of supporters, fifty million people strong around this country, that we're all racists and we should be compared to George Wallace and the kind of horrible segregation and evil and horrible politics that was played at that time, (Lewis is just calling a spade a spade!
... you know, that you've got to rethink all these things. And so I think we're in the process of looking at how we're going to close this campaign. We've got 19 days, and we're taking serious all these issues."
(ah, Davis is saying HUSSEIN's supporters are forcing McNasty to use Wright!
McCain has reportedly avoided discussion of Wright because of its racial implications. Apparently, since he already stands accused of stoking crowd anger akin to the South in the 1960s, his campaign just might be willing to walk down that slippery slope and risk justifying Lewis' proclamation.
( Them uppity Christian s ain't no more rights than plain old s!
Even before Davis took to the Hugh Hewitt Show, it was clear that members of McCain's inner circle were pining for him to use some of Wright's more inflammatory quotes to hammer away at Obama. Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told New York Times columnist Bill Kristol that she didn't know "why that association isn't discussed more, because those were appalling things that that pastor had said."
Certainly there are Democrats operatives who have long anticipated the Wright card being played and are shocked, to a certain extent, that McCain has avoided the topic. One high-ranking strategist told the Huffington Post that he thought the Republican ticket could have gained far more traction by going after Obama's pastor "as opposed to some neighborhood association" -- referencing former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers. McCain, he added, didn't have to even do it himself. He could pass the task over to a 527 organization or outside group. But with the money woes facing the Republican Party, the fundraising and infrastructure for such an effort has not been built.
The decision to bring up Wright is left firmly in McCain's hands.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/1..._n_136173.html
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McNasty should be prepared to handle HUSSEIN coming back at him with McNasty's adoring, intimate, recent way-past-association with terrorist, ex-con G. Gordon Liddy, a really nasty package.
I'd be surprised if McNasty's surrogates like racist Billy Kristol, etc didn't run with Wright slime, so McNasty's could claim "plausible deniability" and let them run with Wright slime unchastized.
Last edited by boutons_; 10-20-2008 at 02:50 PM.
No bailout. No debate.
He debated.
No wives.
He brought Mic e in.
No Wright.
He may bring him up.
Wow... and he's ing about going back on not using tax payers money for funding.
old man... just hit the old folks home.
I look forward to it.
What makes Rick Davis think this particular piece of the Clinton Campaign's sloppy seconds is going to do any better than any of the other sloppy seconds they've trotted out there?
^^^
This smells of desperation.
The negatives aren't working this time for the republicans and they are floundering. They certainly cannot run on issues! It's obvious that Karl Rove is not active in this campaign or else they would have a wedge issue that hinted at race without being so crass as to say it out loud (a la Willie Horton). The preacher man fits that somewhat but Rove would have done better.
Speaking of which, remember when they were trying to take time & a half pay overtime away from from Joe Sixpack-Plumber. The repubs are lucky that the dems are so inept at campaigning that they didn't get their noses rubbed in that one.
Can we bash gay people ? They are always easy fodder.
we are starting to see that Mccain is a panderer and a puppet just like W.
"A growing number of Americans believe John McCain has attacked Barack Obama unfairly, a negative perception of the Arizona senator that could cost him at the polls come Election Day.
According to a new survey from CNN and the Opinion Research Corporation, nearly 6 in 10 Americans believe the Republican nominee has unfairly gone negative in his bid for the White House. That percentage is significantly higher than it was last September, when just 42 percent thought the Republican Presidential nominee was running an overly negative campaign, and is also considerably higher than the percentage of Americans who feel Obama has gone unfairly negative."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...cnn-poll-says/
That will help stop the job layoffs.
McCain is on tape saying Reverend Wright is off-limits. They'll bludgeon him with that if he brings him up.
If I'm McCain, I'm throwing everything against the wall to see if something sticks. Why not? He's a huge underdog at this point who doesn't seem to be gaining any traction with his current tactics.
newsflash, he's been doing that for the last month or so
Keyword being everything.
so he should start saying Obama is a muslim?
That'd be a bit hard to do while simultaneously breaking out the Rev. Wright card, no?
so not everything
I think he could bring the Rev up but it would not affect the outcome one bit at this point, same as if he brought up Obama was a muslim.
It is too late in the race, it is over
Everything obviously has limits. McCain isn't going to start saying Obama is Jewish.
I agree it's all but certain McCain will lose. But should he just give up?
You asked me in another thread, so it's your turn. You're Steve Schmidt today. What do you do?
If he's going to almost certainly lose, whether he resorts to sleaze or not, why not go down honorably? He's turned people off with the sleaze, he just might be able to close the gap if he actually starts talking issues.
That's what I meant when I said he has been doing it for the last month or so. His limit was short of the rev.
I guess he can finish off his campaign with "some" dignity? that's pretty much all he can do now.I agree it's all but certain McCain will lose. But should he just give up?
can't happen. what would he do with palin?
Keep firing. It's the only option. Any chance McCain has is for something to stick. Status quo leads to a loss.
First of all, McCain can't win with issues. All Obama has to do is use the Bush card and any issue McCain brings up is defeated.
As far as going down honorably, that would make sense in a lot of cases but not McCain's. Due to his age, he doesn't have much of a political future. Most candidates wouldn't slime all the way to defeat but this is it for McCain.
thats mccain in a nuts . is there honor in winning like this?
Yay!! More politics that has nothing to do with policy!!
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