Not looking good for Palin-McCain
M. Stewart
I wonder how many people will tune in tonight’s third and final presidential debate? With independent and swing voters turning away from Palin-McCain in droves, what can Sen. McCain possibly do to stop the bleeding?
The ill-timed “economic crisis” has kept the Bush monkey squarely on McCain’s Republican back, but it was the decision to shove Sarah Palin to the front of the ticket that really blew it. Palin-McCain simply isn’t working, and there’s not enough time to repair the damage.
Palin energized the “Neanderthal element” of the Republican Party, which has been hard at work alienating decent people and knocking them off the fence into the Obama camp. Images of stupid, hate-filled racists standing in line to touch the garment of their leader, Sarah Palin, scares a lot of voters. Add to that Palin’s own astounding ignorance and crude behavior, and you’ve got a serious problem.
The Republican Party needs to reassess its recent attempts to appeal to the mob. First of all, it alienates the wealth-driven, educated core constituency that built the modern party. Secondly, it alienates independents who don’t want to be associated with scared, angry, inarticulate white people.
Tired claims of media bias, the Obama-is-a-terrorist gambit, lack of a credible plan for reform, and an overload of desperate, negative campaign ads also have torpedoed McCain. Unless something unexpected happens in these final weeks that turns the tide and lifts McCain’s sinking ship, his campaign will be a blueprint for failure that future Republican candidates might want to study and avoid.
The U.S. Census Bureau keeps telling us that in ten years Caucasians will be the minority. Like it or not, diversity is upon us, and the political party in the best position to take advantage of that diversity will be the most successful.
I wonder how many people will tune in tonight’s third and final presidential debate? With independent and swing voters turning away from Palin-McCain in droves, what can Sen. McCain possibly do to stop the bleeding?
The ill-timed “economic crisis” has kept the Bush monkey squarely on McCain’s Republican back, but it was the decision to shove Sarah Palin to the front of the ticket that really blew it. Palin-McCain simply isn’t working, and there’s not enough time to repair the damage.
Palin energized the “Neanderthal element” of the Republican Party, which has been hard at work alienating decent people and knocking them off the fence into the Obama camp. Images of stupid, hate-filled racists standing in line to touch the garment of their leader, Sarah Palin, scares a lot of voters. Add to that Palin’s own astounding ignorance and crude behavior, and you’ve got a serious problem.
The Republican Party needs to reassess its recent attempts to appeal to the mob. First of all, it alienates the wealth-driven, educated core constituency that built the modern party. Secondly, it alienates independents who don’t want to be associated with scared, angry, inarticulate white people.
Tired claims of media bias, the Obama-is-a-terrorist gambit, lack of a credible plan for reform, and an overload of desperate, negative campaign ads also have torpedoed McCain. Unless something unexpected happens in these final weeks that turns the tide and lifts McCain’s sinking ship, his campaign will be a blueprint for failure that future Republican candidates might want to study and avoid.
The U.S. Census Bureau keeps telling us that in ten years Caucasians will be the minority. Like it or not, diversity is upon us, and the political party in the best position to take advantage of that diversity will be the most successful.
posted by M. | 6:16 AM
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Just for a historical look, here are the Zogby poll results from exactly four years ago today.
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=891
Bush was up 48% to 44% over Kerry.
And if you look at today's Zogby poll, 10/15/08, you'll see that Obama is up 48.2% to 44.4% over McCain.
As well all know, Bush won the in 2004 with 51%. But as we also know, these are NATIONAL numbers, and the real numbers that matter are individual state polls.
The sad thing is, now the Republicans are trying to use the whole ACORN vote thing. ACORN collected the signatures, voluntarily and by itself reported the ones that would be challenged, and made its own report that some of its workers were filling out the documents wrong, so the items would be thrown out. Somehow the Republicans are now trying to base some kind of challenge against Obama for all of that. What happened to the war hero, fair and honorable John McCain? That was the man who would have been a good president, not this grouchy little paranoid man who will do or say anything to get a vote.
Even when Obama wins, the McCain camp will spend millions of American dollars challenging the vote.
And as for Sarah Palin, words can't describe how scary she is. I don't think she's nearly as stupid as she comes across. However, she's cunning and sneaky and just plain mean, and if she ends up in the White House, this countr y will be in serious trouble. I can't believe McCain chose this evil little woman, who, by the way, is now referring to the race as the "Palin-McCain" campaign.
Why don't you do an article about ACORN? They seem to be breaking the law quite regularly.
Oh yea, I forgot you hate Christians and republicans and you're in the Obama camp, that's why.
http://www.acorn.org/
The Republicans desperate fetish with ACORN as a political issue is no more compelling than the "terrorist" claims. It's clear by now that Palin-McCain are doing everything they can to avoid addressing issues. Why? Palin is too stupid to discuss issues, and McCain's positions are already known. Everybody knows he's just another version of Bush, and he has been unable to mask it. So the Republican National Committee has taken over and is appealing to racism and fear. Most people are seeing through it.
The problem I have right now is the same problem I've had the last two presidential elections: Being forced to choose between what I would consider to be the lesser of two evils, which is no choice at all.
We need a "None of the Above" option on the ballot so we can scrap everything and start over. This election is crap.
I think Obama is going to win, and while I'm not a McCain-Palin supporter, all I have to say about Obama is "Be careful what you wish for . . ."
Brian
A man with Barack Obama's record has no business being President of the United States. Can Obama be trusted to administer the vast (and, in recent weeks, rapidly expanding) federal power to distribute jobs, favors and resources with restraint and honesty and respect for the taxpayer? Or will he deliver money, jobs and power into the hands of left-wing radicals, panhandling "community organizers" and sleazy machine politicians? If you want the answer to that question, look at his record. Indeed, if I was advising John McCain about tonight's debate, my single-minded mantra would be to focus on Obama's record. And follow the money.
Nearly all of Obama's appeal requires his supporters to take on faith that he will do things he has never done. But on the question of whether Obama will ever take a meaningful stand against corruption or waste in his own party or stand up to vested interests and ideological extremists on his own side, we already know the answer: Obama is so thoroughly marinated in extremism and corruption that it would be nearly impossibe to extricate himself and still have a meaningful identity left.
You will often hear Obama's defenders argue that his ties to this or that extremist or corrupt figure is an isolated aberration, an example of "guilt by association"; that the various favors he dispensed with public money and private charitable foundation funds are nothing unusual in politics. But when you look at Obama's record and biography taken together, what you see is that the favors, the extremists and the machine ties are all inextricably intertwined, and that far from being isolated incidents, Obama's modus operandi of mutual back-scratching with radicals and crooks extends to nearly every aspect of his life and career - his family, his faith, his home, his jobs and education, his significant election victories and legislative "accomplishments," his closest advisors and most important mentors, the money and organization that made up his campaigns.
AMEM Brian, Amen
I'm watching the debate. What's with John McCain's huge weird black pupils? He's scaring me.
Finally, McCain came out and spoke the truth during the debate about his plans for all of us! I heard him promise he was going to give us a "nude erection", and he said it several times. Now there's truth in politics.
My thought, Mcain won this debate.
Joe Plumber
Not even close.
someone said to me that mccain said last night in his speech that palin's kid has autism. boob.
and this whole small biz thing is crap. my father owned a small biz for about 20 years, employed about 10 people, and made (well, 10 years ago) about $130,000 annually. they say the average small biz in US right now makes about $223,000, which is still inflated.
Jeff M. -
Your dad made $130,000 ten years ago, owning his own business, employing 10 people? Shit, that sucks. I make that on on my own now, and that's way down from the $157,000 I made in 2000. Man, that really sucks. I do feel for you.
to smiling ---
the landlord of the plaza he was located in was owned by the Y-town mob. They raised his lease all the time, based on reviews of his books. Now you know why I hate the greasy mob-hand-jobs. And $130,000 is enough for any family to live on; you seem to be implying that that wasn't enough. If you are, then you are the example of what is fucked about about this country.
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