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  • toasty
    Sir Toastiness
    • Jun 2004
    • 6585

    McCain's Message?

    I was having a discussion with a colleague this morning, thought it was worthy of bringing to this forum. What the hell is John McCain’s affirmative message right now? It seems that he has been in reaction mode for the last few weeks – wait for something to happen, or Obama to do something, and respond to it in the following format: “Obama’s response to XXXX shows that he’s not ready to be president because XXXXX.”

    I’m not even asking for specific policy proposals. The only thing I’ve heard him say in support of his own presidency over the last few weeks is “I know how to do this,” or “I know how to do that.” Well, we’re kinda in a tight spot right now, so that doesn’t really reassure me, it makes me think you’re being kind of a dick by holding out on us – if I actually believed him.

    Experience matters? Haven’t heard McCain harp on that since he selected someone that makes Obama look like an elder statesman for his VP. And “Country First?” Yeah, he still says that, but even the GOP talking heads are having a hard time parroting this in the face of the Palin pick.

    In addition to broad overarching themes, campaigns decide what the message is going to be on a day-to-day basis. When is the last time that it was apparent that the message of the day from the McCain campaign was something good to say about McCain rather than just an attempt to knock Obama down a peg?

    cosmo? shosh? anyone care to chime in on this?
  • 88Mariner
    My dick is smaller
    • Nov 2006
    • 7128

    #2
    Re: McCain's Message?

    I think Jesse Taylor sums it up nicely over at http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/c..._will_suffice/


    It’s not so much that McCain’s campaign has been purposefully sleazy as they’ve been meanderingly, pointlessly sleazy. It’s the “fuck it, whatever” guide to Republican politics, with no particular focus except putting anything out there to win a daily news cycle. Obama was a conspirator in voter fraud for a weekend, a terrorist for about three days, until he was a socialist because some plumber in Ohio said so. Before that he was a celebrity and presumptuous, a race-baiter, a shady community organizer, sexist, inexperienced, a baby killer, a sex predator and a dozen other things. You wonder why McCain/Palin supporters feel like they can go to rallies and talk about Obama being a Jew-bought Islamic radical cokehead forced abortionist communist? Because it’s the standard that the campaign’s set by having ridiculously drawn out public conversations designed to draw full attention to the charges while laboring under the pretense that they’re “debating” over using the smear.
    (btw, i dont' endorse anything else on that website: it's all dogshit. but that paragraph is a pretty forward answer that I think goes to your question...)
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    • ddr
      DUDERZ get a life!!!
      • Jun 2004
      • 7006

      #3
      Re: McCain's Message?

      i agree toasty.

      his whole campaign has been a whole slew of negativity and people are tired of it.

      our country is going to hell thanks to mr. bush and all mccain wants to do is bicker like an elementary school kid, its pathetic. if his campaign had any substance to it, he would be in a much better position than where he is right now.
      "pics or stfu" - R.I.P. Steve "Jibgolly" James

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      • sammwalk
        Gold Gabber
        • Jun 2004
        • 769

        #4
        Re: McCain's Message?

        Originally posted by 88Mariner
        I think Jesse Taylor sums it up nicely over at http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/c..._will_suffice/




        (btw, i dont' endorse anything else on that website: it's all dogshit. but that paragraph is a pretty forward answer that I think goes to your question...)
        good quote.

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        • Miroslav
          WHOA I can change this!1!
          • Apr 2006
          • 4122

          #5
          Re: McCain's Message?

          pretty much the same view of the world over in my corner. McCain and Palin's main message appears to be that: (1) we should keep on truckin' just like we have been, and (2) anyone who thinks otherwise is a terrorist-loving, American-hating Socialist.


          I guess that's where these people get their righteousness from:

          "We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America . . . pro-America areas of this great nation."
          --- Sarah Palin, Republican Governor of Alaska and Vice Presidential Nominee


          "Liberals hate real Americans that work and accomplish and achieve and believe in God."
          --- Robin Hayes, Republican State Representative of North Carolina


          "Absolutely. I'm very concerned that he may have anti-American views. That's what the American people are concerned about. That's why they want to know what his answers are."
          --- Michelle Bachmann, Republican State Representative of Minnesota



          I just wish these people would all go back to the Stone Age where they came from and leave the running of society to those of us who actually have some level of civility.
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