steven787 said:
I don't think McCain has talked enough about William Ayers, he needs to keep on that... Really hammer it home. Oh, and focus on Sarah Palin more. Eh, eh.
(I'm sorry, but when I watched that video I get a picture in my head of Batman and Alfred fighting the Penguin and Poison Ivy.) |
Wow, he does sound like The Penguin...
See the McCain campaign's problem right now is they are focusing on attacks, which makes the party base happy, but does not make independent voters happy. If the country is doing just fine, then independent voters are more willing to give into fear tactics and will listen to attacks. But things are not going fine, so they want answers, not more political shenanigans. This is one of the reasons why Obama's lead has increased over the last week rather than shrunk. All these attacks have probably hurt McCain as much as they hurt Obama since McCain looks like he is in desperation.
And when voters smell weakness, it makes them move away from a candidate, especially when a candidate like McCain runs on his stability and experience rather than his charisma.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
