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AMERICAblog: McCain adopts the Rove campaign strategy, completing his transformation into George Bush

  • jr · 1 year ago
    McCain wants to double the Bush tax cuts. He makes Bush look like Bernie Sanders
  • Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago
    When there is a cancer, you cut it out. How to we get Congress to make sure that Fat Fuck Rove is put away for good? I've had anal boils I preferred over Karl Rove.
  • cwzilla · 1 year ago
    john mccain is the typical republiCON say one thing do another and i dont think its gonna work...unless the american public is that dammed stupid then again look at the last 2 prez elections...barak obama has to fight back against this and expose mccain for what he is and what he stands for for or what he thinks he stands for depending on who he's talkin to and it would help if that dammed liberal media would do its job
  • ron071 · 1 year ago
    McSame is a HERO and a FOREIGN POLICY EXPERT with EXPERIENCE! These are the MYTHS created for the Republican campaign. Let's start with a few definitions and revelations. What exactly is the definition of hero? What has been the foreign policy expertise McSame has demonstrated in 26 years? Was it the support of the invasion and occupation of Iraq for oil under cover of lies and disceptions? Let's look at the McSame record on ALL fronts?
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    McCain and Pentagon sabotage Obama visit to troops.

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/25/8227/32...
  • gwpriester · 1 year ago
    Rove is a very nasty piece of work. I hope to see him wearing prison orange someday. But I am not going to hold my breath.

    If the Obama campaign and the democratic party, who know full well to expect this sort of fear mongering, cannot deflect this campaign approach, then perhaps we are not ready to take back the White House.
  • ron071 · 1 year ago
    Correct, gwpriester. I'd be interested in YOUR SUGGESTIONS to " deflect" as I'm sure we want to recapture the White House. With your constructive suggestions, we can and we will. Let's hear from you on the methods you sugggest.
  • OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago
    "Let Freedom Ring", the McBush 527, aired the same ad mocking Obama during Lurch's show on MSNBC last night. Let the "swiftboating" begin...

    Meanwhile, Conyers is chairing judiciary comittee on "Executive Privilege and the Bush Administration on CPAN ; Wexler reiterating impeachment hearings right now.
  • BillP · 1 year ago
    Explain to me again why Rove is not in jail for contempt or treason?

    BP
  • jcgraham77 · 1 year ago
    Democratic enablers Pelosi and Reid.
  • ron071 · 1 year ago
    jcgraham wishes to blame the Democrats for the teachery of Carl Rove and the total politicization of the US Justice Deaprtment. The House Judiciary committee IS doing all possible within the law to bring this criminal to justice given the obstacles and barriers of the Bush cabal. Perhaps JCGraham already knows this but is slinging some more of that Republithug MUD.
  • Mikki --SE Pennsylvania · 1 year ago
    AMEN to that!
  • ron071 · 1 year ago
    BillP: The reason is best understood if one recognizes what has happened to the Justice Department. This administration has created governmental diseases of the most virulent nature. It will take quite an effort using the strongest antibiotics to get rid of the infectionS.
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    While the McStain forces may further rely on jingoistic racism to intimidate and scarify the still free citizens they view as simple minded masses, their cheese ain't selling.
    Americans love happy endings and gleaming dawn beginnings.
    Americans love being loved and hate being hated no matter the teevee's smarmy Rove-inspired tangents.
    Obama's speech signeled the free West's eventual victory over terror with each joyous flag-waving Euro cheer and Arab-African ululation.
    An Obama presidency will signal not simply the symbolic rebirth of America's dream to her children but the translation of that dream to all of humanity.
    Media simpletons miscast Obama as Christ...He could be Moses.
  • hawkseye · 1 year ago
    "also the time for the Obama campaign to obliterate the McCain/Rove strategy before it starts taking hold."

    And they had best get started.
  • Mark in Florida · 1 year ago
    AMEN. Bring on Biden, Hagel, Ron Regan JR. (who is brilliant these days on Dan Abrams) et al...

    And START CALLING MCBUSH OUT ON THE CARPET. McBUSH is frought with gaffes, and the media is treating him with kit gloves, like he is some kindly grandfather figure.

    McBUsh is hiding behind that fake yellow smile of his and has no command on foreign affairs.....


    These debates cannot come soon enough.
  • vwcat · 1 year ago
    there is not much the Obama camp can do with Obama, Gibbs and Axelrod overseas. They are back tomorrow and busy doing full battle right now with the fake "Obama would not visit the injured troops in Germany" smear set up by the pentagon and McCain.
  • ron071 · 1 year ago
    vwcat has unearthed a new Republican tactic. Create the lie and then use it to smear your opponent. Total bankruptcy of character is the Republican disease.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    every time McRove makes that creepy smile after he says something hideous, he's congratulating himself for remembering what Karl told him to say.
  • Mark in Florida · 1 year ago
    You got that right
  • barts · 1 year ago
    Rove Strategy:

    Simple. Attack your opponent's character and not his record, abilites or judgement. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
  • ron071 · 1 year ago
    barts has it just right. Imagine Carl Rove directing a smear campaign! It's beyond belief that this man can walk the earth when he should be in hiding under a rock.
  • Mikki --SE Pennsylvania · 1 year ago
    More like he should be hanging on a gallows with all the other Bush/republicon war criminals!
  • ron071 · 1 year ago
    Mikki: Your frustration is clear and quite justified but hanging is not the
    answer. Exerting citizen energy to sweep these criminals out of government
    is the way to go. Simply visit your closest Obama office and see what you
    can do.



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  • coolcatdaddy · 1 year ago
    Campaigning is really about appealing to emotions, much like all advertising. Sometimes, it appeals to your heartstrings, sometimes to your hopes and aspirations and sometimes to deep, ugly fears.

    The Republican base responds really well to fear, most often voting in spite of their own best interests. The Republican leadership knows this and is more than willing to play that little game.

    Before it's over, Obama will probably wind up being depicted as a cowardly, unAmerican (ie foreign) drug-abusing terrorist transexual transvestite atheist with Muslim connections who's also a "fancy lad" that has AIDS. Oh, and he's _Black_, too. Time will tell if this kind of tactic will really work or if common sense on the economy, the war and other issues will outweigh fear with enough voters to make a difference.

    Heaven knows the Republicans don't have any accomplishments or plan to run except fear this time around.
  • ron071 · 1 year ago
    The Republicans DO have "accomplishments" and we all should know what they are. The energy crisis IS a Republican " accomplishment " hatched in that secret Cheney energy policy meeting with the oil industry. Imagine that they are now concerned after eight years of creating this bonanza for big oil at our expense. Hypocrisy of the ultimate degree at work here. The smears of Kerry and Gore were successful so why not go to the smear and fear wells again. That's their " winning" strategy.
  • Mikki --SE Pennsylvania · 1 year ago
    Then why are the republicons running t he old wreck McCane?
    I would think they'd be running crooked old lobbyist Phil Gramm; isn't he responsible for the mortgage/financial mess, another of the republicons "accomplishments?"
  • ron071 · 1 year ago
    Mikki: The Republicans ARE running McSame AND Gramm and any other Bush
    /Cheney/Rove trash they can scoop up. These guys ARE the REPUBLICAN TEAM. We
    must get out and work to get rid of them as I posted in the previous note. You
    will feel great making any contribution you can in time, effort and/or $.
    Penna. needs you efforts.



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  • Mark in Florida · 1 year ago
    I truly believe Obama will win this election. However if he does lose it will be becuase of what you have stated above .....fear wins again. If this is indeed the case, I weep for humanity and throw my arms up.
  • Mark in Florida · 1 year ago
    The Obama campaign and serogates MUST start really hammering McCain and really lay into him, or McCain is going to get the upper hand. Fabulous trip abroad, time to start linking McSame to Bush.

    Bush is at all time low at 23 percent approval rating....Obama should be higher in the polls, I suspect they are being too "nice", too much like the Kerry way of campaigning.

    Time to squash McSame.
  • Mikki --SE Pennsylvania · 1 year ago
    INSANE MCCANE IS A LIAR AND A LOSER!
    He is becoming more and more irrelevant as each day passes. How can he think to disassociate himself from Bush and the fascist pigs of his administration? He is adopting the Bush/Republicon concept of truth being what you want it to be regardless of what it is. He is the old man shaking his stick at the cloud. Increasingly fixated on his idea of victory because he can not deal with the reality that america LOST HIS WAR - VIET NAM! Yes, John while you were awol collaborating with the North Vietnamese, America LOST that war. Furthermore, that was in the last century John, this is the 21st century. Things are different; even countries have shifted and changed their names ( Had your incompetent staff of lobbyists managed to make you look at a current atlas?). This is tough love John but you need to realize your carefully polished image of war hero/ POW is only a shell; it does NOT qualify you to be an expert in world affairs or military affairs or to be POTUS. You are a tired old fraud, a crook, and a moral leper.
  • benb · 1 year ago
    Where do I find a list of 527's to Swiftboat McCain? If he wants to play on voters' fears and emotions then I say he needs to spend all his time playing defense.

    There's no patriotism in fear mongering.
  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    John McCain = Submediocre-Rich-Boy's Chowderhead Successor.
  • rextrek1 · 1 year ago
    Any man that has access to MILLIONS of Dollars and Yellow teeth should be sruntinized UP and Down! Besides, McCain looks like he smells like OLD Mash Potatoes and Ben Gay! OBAMA 08
  • Spadecaller · 1 year ago
    McCain is not a “maverick” on the “straight talk express” … he’s just one of the sheep on K Street’s cattle car. The warmongers and profiteers will do anything to get another puppet into the White House and it will only get uglier as Obama's message of change takes hold in a nation that is struggling to keep food on the table and gas in their cars.