will this hurt or help him
Thoughts? I don’t know how this hurts him when it comes to independents. Personally, it is par for the course with Johnny. All hat and no cattle. When it comes down to it, he votes right in line with the party. Sort of like Chuck Hagel, Warner and the rest of the pathetic lot of them
What Mr. McCain almost never mentions are two extraordinary moments in his political past that are at odds with the candidate of the present: His discussions in 2001 with Democrats about leaving the Republican Party , and his conversations in 2004 with Senator John Kerry about becoming Mr. Kerry’s running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket.
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Not to mention McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts. Better yet, the reason McCain gave at the time was because they favored the rich.
Yes, he voted against the tax cuts before he was for them.
This part of McCain’s record needs to be front and center in Obama’s campaign, and in each debate. It will neutralize GOP efforts to run against Dems as tax-hikers.
And once the campaign gets going, I want to hear non-stop video of McCain singing “bomb bomb bomb Iran,” and “we’ll stay in Iraq 10,000 years,” and repeatedly not knowing the difference between Sunni and Shiite in Iran.
Obama needs to make a montage of McCain’s foreign policy stupidity and run it non-stop.
It’s also long past time to launch an all-0ut attack on Republicans for weakening America’s military preparedness. Yes, attack their patriotism.
For years they have accused us of hating America because we are dirty f’n hippies.
Now it is our turn to accuse them of hating America because they are greedy and stupid.
Once Obama is the nominee, McCain will get his.
No matter how much BBQ the old man gives the lapdog press, they cannot stop the Dems from forcing these issues in front of the electorate, be it by ads, debates, or Sunday talkshows.
McCain is dangerous because his past reputation makes him attractive to independents and crossover Dems. Never mind that McCain has reversed himself on nearly every position that earned him that reputation.
I’m also betting McCain will hand us a few “senior moments,” and we need to capitalize on them (hey, they’d do no less for us).
Wait until McCain’s complete donor list is out there for examination. Millions given to him by Corporations….
Obama will certainly tie together his dealings with the Keating Savings and Loans Scandal, McCain’s so-called contrition and subsequent creation of the ‘Maverick’ persona, then back to being a corporate whore.
You take that timeline and add gov’t de-regulation of banking (Keating S&L and today’s current credit crunch – that’s just the tip too), and if hammered home until November, those independents will see McCain as the wind sock that he truly is….
In a sentence? “You can’t teach an OLD DOG new tricks”
McCain’s “Straight Talk Express” and that carefully cultivated moderate persona is going to be the giant bullseye for which ever Dem ends up running against him. McCain will want to keep Iraq and Iran front and center to keep the fear factor up for those who are vulnerable to that, when most of the rest of the country wants this business to come to some closure. While the economy struggles, he hasn’t been able to address that much besides saying he read Greenspan’s book. And in spite of that much vaunted “maverick” reputation, McCain’s campaign is is powered by more lobbyists (and at decision-making positions) than either of the Dems still running.
The real challenge for Dems, I think, is in getting the press that seems genuinely attached to this guy to cover their arguments without providing McCain a pass (witness his senior moments recently about Iran training al-Queda).
McInsane’s donor list looks like McCastle!