DISQUS

DCinDC · 1 year ago

WALLACE: ...(H)asn't Governor Palin become a drag on your ticket?

MCCAIN: As a cold political calculation, I could not be more pleased. She has excited and energized our base. She is a direct counterpoint to the liberal feminist agenda for America. She has a wonderful family. She's a reformer. She's a conservative. She's the best thing that could have happened to my campaign and to America

http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/fns-mcca...

gwpriester · 1 year ago

The McCain campaign's only strategy for winning is to LIE, CHEAT and STEAL! If you can call that a strategy. Sounds more like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney's governance model.

dad · 1 year ago

not fair

to Mike.

TheOriginalLiz · 1 year ago

They're going to have to really steal a lot of votes to win this election.

osage · 1 year ago

I think we need to look closely at what McCain has to do to win. He has to take the states of Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, West Virginia, Indiana, Missouri and New Hampshire just to TIE Barack Obama in electoral votes at 269. Does anyone genuinely believe that McCain can win ALL of those states PLUS one MORE? All he has to do is lose ONE of those states in order for Obama to win the presidency! McCain lost the election the day he named Sarah Palin as his runningmate and placed his political ambitions ahead of his love of country by putting a wholly unqualified religious nutjob neophyte just one 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency. That incredibly irresponsible act demonstrated the dangerously incompetent judgement of John Sidney McCain.

BarrieT · 1 year ago

OT; DeGeneres urges gay marriage vote

sukabi1 · 1 year ago

Ok, this strategist / advisor sees confusion / lack of strategy / ineptitude coming from McCain's campaign and he STILL SUPPORTS McCain???

based on WHAT?? I would think that how a person runs his campaign would be a very good indicator of what kind of "management skills" and people the candidate would surround himself with once elected... so how could someone with such an inept campaign / strategy / message possibly govern responsibly??? and WHY would you support them???

nsr · 1 year ago

The Bush administration has functioned from the beginning as conscious agents of chaos. Remember when that unnamed WH person was bragging about how they set up reality? It was arrogant, but it came out of a spiritual sickness, a wish to derail order as it's perceived by the rest of us.

They hide within the language of a civilized democracy, but their intent from the start has been to subvert order-- two stolen elections, the Constitution ignored-- and foment destruction. The surface reason, for them, has been that they can all get rich from it. But its heart is the heart of evil-- destruction, chaos and ruin. So, in that sense, McCain's campaign is performing exactly as they want.

hawkseye · 1 year ago

And what could possibly be their justification for this incredible "movement"?
Oh, I forgot. Country First.

mirth · 1 year ago

Just as I don't buy that McC went all mavericky with his Palin choice, I don't believe he or the NEOs have been intentionally inept. Considering the destructions of Bush&Co, was there more than a bare chance of Republicans winning this election? Instead, after the rise of Barack over Clinton, whom they might have beaten outright, and particularly with the Palin selection, I think the plan shifted to whip up the ugly elements of the population to begin the destruction of an Obama presidency.

Those NEOs. Always looking ahead.

shrrrr · 1 year ago

You are probably correct, I think. Their plan did shift with that "He pals around with terrorists" meme. Their campaign has been building a scorched earth tactic ever since. First seemingly a tactic of defeat, but ultimately Obama's presidency. If we win, it's not over by any means.

hawkseye · 1 year ago

Agree, particularly with your last sentence.

Older_Wiser · 1 year ago

"Truly Bush-like" I'd say...the Rethugs need to stop insulting Dems and look at how they are destroying the entire campaign. Good luck on that one. : )

hawkseye · 1 year ago

Rethugs are always stuck with whatever plan or non-plan they begin with because they salute and fall into line behind the leader, no matter how inept he is. It's amusing to watch.
I agree with Mirth's comments below:
"I think the plan shifted to whip up the ugly elements of the population to begin the destruction of an Obama presidency."
But I think this was part of the plan all along.

mirth · 1 year ago

These bastards need to be knocked out before they get the message.

But there is no doubt now that it's NEO go-for-broke time. If they can't retain gov't control beginning in 2009, they are setting the stage to win it back asap. But consider this:

How long have they been at the ruination of this country? While they have advanced their agenda in increments over the years, again and again they fail to seal the deal because again and again the country rejects their management and philosophies.

So we start again. They overplayed their hand with Bush and We The People are saying NO with our votes. We must be vigilant, but, opposite what they may suppose, if anything the McC campaign has aided our cause. The NEOs may see themselves as conservative warriors, but in reality they are Keystone Kops.

lcdrrek · 1 year ago

This is the worst slight I have ever heard of the Dukakis campaign. The advisor should be ashamed of him/herself!

Indigo · 1 year ago

Once in a while the editors of the Orlando Sentinel (known locally as the Orlando Slantinel) come up for air, usually in strangely bass-ackwards ways.

You see, they have tourists from the Hinterlands to appease on a dialy basis along with an extreme right wing politiburo and a base of liberal harpies among whom I count myself. They don't care what they say or what people think, they care that they sell the newspaper.

Speaking of fumbling and tumbling, our handsome and tanned bachelor but--to-be-married-on-December-12 governor, Charlie Crist, recently backed out of public appearances with the McCainiac and his handlers.