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akuma587 on 22 October 2008
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senseinobaka said:
Final-Fan said:
HappySquirrel might have a point. If he'd said "look, I have better insight into the Bush Administration, so I have more understanding of how he screwed everything up, so I'm in a better position to fix/avoid those mistakes,", it might have come off better than trying to pretend he's not associated with Bush at all when it's clearly false and everyone knows it.

It's too complicated a message. Once the Obama campaign started the "8 more years of Bush" slogan McCain lost because he can't provide a substantial response in 5 words or less. "8 more years of Bush" is so easy to remember and invokes such unreasoning emotional responses. It may not be true, but it works. What could McCain do? This continues to be an amazing showcase of how Republicans screwed themselves.

 

You are absolutely right, bumper sticker politics is the lowest common denominator of politics.

But I have honestly been shocked at how many Bush policies McCain wants to keep.  And I think McCain is a great and honest politician.  I have just been really disappointed at how a politician with so much potential really hasn't shown me that he has that much to offer in terms of doing things differently.  I think his adminstration would be a lot more transparent and would not abuse its power anywhere near as much, but I really think McCain has been too loyal to GOP ideals to live up to his self-proclaimed title of "maverick."

 



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