What Should McCain Do Now?

[gottaluvPluto]

Oh, please. How irrelevant is this! That's the best thing you have to say about McCain? That the other guy is scary?

Someone asked me wouldn't I immediately resign from a board that Ayers was on. And I said, why would I resign? I'm the good guy. I'll stay on that board and make sure money gets used for good.

This thread is not about what is the best thing about McCain.

I have a lot more good things to say about McCain than I do Obama.

It just isn't the board, it is more than that.

 

[photobob]

What should McCain do now? What should WE do now, is the question. I'm a democrat and I don't like either choice. IS THIS THE BEST WE HAVE TO CHOOSE FROM???

OT sorry, but why in the world do we still have the electoral college? Why can't we go with the popular vote? I am in a dead red state so my vote means absolutely nothing..

 

[OceanAnnie]

I wish McCain would project his voice better. Show his passion. He probably isn't showing his passion because he's been told to tamp it down a bit, or he'd look aggressive. I don't know. His delivery is kind of weak. I hate to say it, but to me it is. I don't think his message is weak, but the delivery needs some umph (!). Make it a lot of umph. To heck with speaking softly. Put some feeling into it!

Just once I'd like to hear a candidate connect the dots without interrupting the point to tell about what the other guy would do. Geesh. Finish the point. Then tell about what the other guy would do and why that wouldn't be the right thing.

I'm getting worn down by who voted for what. I've heard it so many times I'm numb. It's come from both sides too much and too often.

I think McCain and Obama should both lay off of the negative ads. I suppose that it's hard to do. In some cases it's exposing historical information. I've read before that the negative ads do work. But it doesn't work all the time.

The last debate was such a disappointment. Boring. Same ground that has been covered before, more finger pointing. I hope the next debate is better.

 

[ntsammy5]

This campaign, both sides, could get very, very ugly in a short time.

Republicans have had it their way for a long time. I think there is an entitlement attitude here. The last two presidential elections were extremely close, in fact in one the Republicans lost the popular vote! Now the margin is pretty large by recent standards and the GOP doesn't like it at all.

This election seems to be slipping away fast. I still haven't decided who to vote for, but the desperation in the McCain campaign is not working on me. Obama scares me a little, but Palin petrifies me and a return to the religious right is unthinkable! The bad economy is moving people into the Obama camp at a prodigious rate - whether deserved or not, Republicans are getting the blame. God help us all.

Whoever is elected he has to bring the country together!

 

[corndog]

Yes, yes and yes. She IS that dumb. I know it. You know it. Everybody knows it. A high-profile conservative recently called her a "fatal cancer in the Republican party." She's killing the Republican party, and she'll kill our nation if she gets into power. If you somehow still have the courage to vote for her, God bless you.

David Brooks is neither.

 

[joviroxx]

It might not matter to people but to me all this goes to Obama's political ideology. The fact that he surrounded himself with radical thinking mentors associates and organizations is troubling to me. The fact that he seemingly is having to "denounce" so many past associations is also troubling. It goes to his beliefs and character. Its not 1 person, its not even 2. He swipes them all away with a flick of his hand and smooth rhetoric.

What do we really know about him? Well, if we treat these campaigns as a job interview, Obama's resume would raise questions to any prospective employer, more so in today's day and age.

This IS about the issues and the political ideologies that are held by the candidates. What he believes IS important to me, not just his beautifully crafted speeches. What else do we know about him that would prove otherwise.

Obama is very good at analyzing situations and saying how McCain is wrong, but that's about it and there are many many missing details in his "plans".

No one knows what a President is going to do when elected. But I try and base my vote on who the candidates are, how they have shown they believe and past records. And if Im going to give FULL power to one party in this government, I need more than just a smooth exterior. But that's just me.

 

[wilderness01]

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McCain needs to put on a more positive, upbeat facade, even if he doesn't feel it. People are scared, people are looking for someone who inspires confidence. Right now, everytime I see him, I see an irritated, cranky, and often mean-sounding man. People have had 8 years of fear, elevated alerts, and more fear crammed down their throats. Even if it's fake, people are looking for a bit of light, and he doesn't have it.

He needs to step away from any negative, explain his healthcare reform in MUCH more detail and explain exactly how it will help the average American or the one who can't even get coverage now.

He needs to come up with a more specific plan on the economy and talk about it. Buying up people's homes at their inflated values isn't going to work.

And last but not least he needs to find a VERY graceful way to ditch Palin. She was the one who swung this independent to the other side. I think she really has pulled him down. It was an interesting choice at first, not knowing who she was, there was some real "hope" on my part. Now I'm just left thinking "My God, what were they thinking?"

I'm voting for Obama, but I have to say that you have a very nice post that is filled with reason. I agree wholeheartedly with you, even though I hope McCain sticks to what he is doing so he'll lose.

 

[Tigger Woods]

Yes your questions are at the top of everyone's minds especially since their homes are being foreclosed on, their retirement funds are draining to zero, their bank accounts are empty, they're living pay check to pay check, their families are hungry, their utilities are being shut off and they're basically destitute.

Yep your questions should definitely take the suffering minds off what they're really going thru.

Obama is going to fill your bank account? Obama is going to feed you? Obama is going to pay your utility bill? Obama is going to pay into your retirement fund? And he's going to do all that just by taxing the crap out of wealthy people? You can't make this stuff up ..

 

[Biscuitsmom31]

Obama is going to fill your bank account? Obama is going to feed you? Obama is going to pay your utility bill? Obama is going to pay into your retirement fund? And he's going to do all that just by taxing the crap out of wealthy people? You can't make this stuff up ..

That's not what the post said. It said that people are concerned about these issues. It didn't say that either candidate was going to be able to wave a wand and fix everything.

 

[PixieDust32]

He needs to get loud and agressive regarding Obama's past.

What's his association with ACORN? (specifics please)
What's his association with Ayers? (specifics)
What's his association with Odinga and the Orange Democratic movement?

I'm sure there are many more great questions that need to be answered.

Guilt by association? Well McCain has his dirty laundry too.

 

[gmboy95]

Let's all play political strategist for a minute. McCain is behind in the polls. His latest stategy of full-on attack mode doesn't appear to be working.

What would you advise him to do to turn it around?

resign and go home!!!!!

 

[rparmfamily]

I think McCain should do what so many of you suggest. Continue being negative, smear Obama more, not talk about his experience, not talk about the issues, ...seems to be working so far!

 

[gmboy95]

I think McCain should do what so many of you suggest. Continue being negative, smear Obama more, not talk about his experience, not talk about the issues, ...seems to be working so far!

damn do I love your signature picture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[rparmfamily]

LOL which one?

 

[Biscuitsmom31]

Guilt by association? Well McCain has his dirty laundry too.

Have you missed the memo? McCain's dirty laundry doesn't count.

 

[manning]

Guilt by association? Well McCain has his dirty laundry too.

If you are referring to the keating five, according to the democratic lawyer in charge of the investigation, that would be Robert Bennett, it should have been the keating 3. He cleared John Glenn and McCain.

 

[Uncle Remus]

Heres' some more of McCain's poor judgment or lies, whichever ya prefer to call it:

If Gov. Sarah Palin, by John McCain's estimation, "knows more about energy than probably anyone in the United States of America," then why is she getting such basic facts about our nation's energy production wrong?

At a townhall event in Wisconsin on Thursday, Palin was asked by a concerned questioner whether it was true that the United States was shipping 75 percent of its Alaskan oil overseas. She responded by proclaiming it impossible, since Congress had put strict bans on the amount of oil and gas that America could export.

Not so. As the Associated Press reported:

No Alaska oil has been exported since 2004, and little if any since 2000, according to the Energy Information Administration and the Congressional Research Service.
And Congress has never imposed outright bans on oil exports. Congress prohibited exports of Alaska oil in 1973 when the Alaska oil pipeline was built. But that ban was lifted in 1996 when there were large volumes of Alaska oil coming down from the North Slope and U.S. demand was soft.

The Alaska ban has never been reinstated.

Unfortunately, for Palin, this was not merely an inconsequential misstatement but rather another in a series of errors when it comes to discussing what is supposed to be her policy strength. For a while on the trail, the Alaska Governor was fond of declaring that her job - as head of state - "has been to oversee nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of oil and gas."

That too was incorrect. As the Washington Post's Fact Checker noted:
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[Biscuitsmom31]

Heres' some more of McCain's poor judgment or lies, whichever ya prefer to call it:

Where's our good buddy Pop Daddy when we need him? I'm interested in hearing his ideas for McCain's strategy.

 

[Alaska DogCat]

It's too late. John McCain fell down along the slippery slope long ago and he no longer has an ideology that his backers can support. In my view, he used to be about deregulation, keeping religion (and the morality police) out of government and governing through reliable and proven leadership.

I began to have doubts when he pandered to Jerry Falwell and began his presidential campaign by seeking the approval of this man and movement he labeled an "agent of political intolerance."

He put his desire to be President above his ideology.

His fall continued as he traded votes with the Bush administration and more recently when he left his 'free market' and 'deregulation' roots behind and not only supported an epic expenditure of funds to buy private bank and insurance debt, but said if he could, he would socialize the loans of all of us.

But my mind was actually changed before this when he picked my former Mayor and Governor as his running mate. She has no business being anywhere near the oval office, unless it is part of the public tour. McCain was willing to pander to the extremist fringes of his party by picking Palin. More recently, he has turned her into his personal attack husky and tried to change the discussion at any cost--even to the point of inciting crowds into comments of violence against their opponents.

It's a shame. This is not the John McCain we admired on the straight talk express. I believe it is too late for McCain and I hope that my belief proves to be true next month. We certainly cannot afford 4 years of McCain/Palin.

 

[Uncle Remus]

Where's our good buddy Pop Daddy when we need him? I'm interested in hearing his ideas for McCain's strategy.

Hey, ALL of us have better strategy than McCain/Palin.