AMERICAblog: Only hope for McCain is for Republicans to "finance sustained negative ads" against Obama
Indigo
· 1 year ago
There's nothing new in that observation. Without smear tactics, the Republicans do not have tactics. Friends don't let friends vote Republican. Ever.
dad
· 1 year ago
republicans believe in nothing
lynchie
· 1 year ago
McCain will do anything and everything to get elected. The man has no soul after allowing Bush to publicly accuse him of fathering a black baby and saying nothing. McCain covets the Presidency and will stop at nothing.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
And the very sad part is that this will work. America deserves the shit kickers it elects. If people choose to listen to Rush or FOX, then they deserve the sewer they are living in. I would bet McCain carries Texas handily. The collective IQ here is about 9
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· 1 year ago
I was told on another blog, "They don't deserve that." But how can they not? You fucking deserve what you vote for because it's called a "democracy." That means you elect what they will do or even if you don't even bother voting. Same difference. It doesn't matter if you are so fucking stupid or vacuous you don't even fucking know what the fuck is going on.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
This is the very heart of what is wrong in this country. Most people I know have no clue as to what Bush and Cheney were up to, or what Exxon is up to, or what the K street lobbyists are up to. Years ago a Congressman said, "If the American people knew what we were doing here in the Beltway, there would be rioting in our streets."
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· 1 year ago
Prior, we had decent people who would run for office, for the most part, and have never faced this before so people thought is wouldn't happen so we can just sail along and not worry about it. "The country will be fine for always because we a democracy so I don't have to know what's going on and it will just take care of itself while I go about my idiocy." But now we've had what the founding fathers warned about and the people don't know. They believed nothing bad would happen, always.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
I was discussing my generation, the Boomers, recently with a Rabbi I work with. He had a very good thought. He said, "I think one day they woke up and realized they could get away with it." By this he was talking about the post Watergate era and how the media gave up after that because of the corporate consolidation. There was no longer a fourth estate keep watchdog over what is going on. We are in seriously deep shit if McCain somehow steals this one. Not only will be do nothing but he is not that bright.
jamesdgm
· 1 year ago
Democracy doesn't imply you "get what you deserve," and certainly it doesn't aid the process to denounce those participating in as having a combined IQ of 9. The very core of a representative democracy is that the people vote for their elected representatives who exercise political sovereignty on their behalf; the sine qua non of this is "representation". So yeah, you get some idiots, and you get some "elitists", you get some conservatives and you get some liberals. The purpose of a democracy is to get all involved. That's why the correct response to GOP attack ads is not to pretend like they're the domain of nuts or idiots, or to decry the fact that the US is full of politcal maladroits... it's to meet the disinformation head on with conviction in the democratic process and that the truth will out.
luvie
· 1 year ago
Those people have money. Most of the people that will vote for McCain have no money. No more middle class americans folks. The women that are saying they are going to let Democrats no the meaning of stay at home moms are just clueless. If they don't start thinking about what the repubs will say they had better start. Stay at home moms, you may not have a home to stay at home in, foreclosure could be in the cards.
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· 1 year ago
Yeah, I thought the same thing. The maverick will act like he is rabidly against the coming smear campaign but it will happen.
jr
· 1 year ago
"I fuck for free"-Larry Johnson
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Well, I just have hope that the majority of Americans won't fall for the same old, same old from the Rethugs.
Dems need to, however, concentrate on McBush's negatives, set out nicely here:
as well as past history, including Keating 5, and anything else they can dig up, which appears to be quite a load to hoist onto him.
I have hope. And hope that nothing happens to McBush, to prevent another from stepping in who has fewer negatives than this skirt-chasing egomaniac.
scytherius
· 1 year ago
That strategy worked SO VERY well in those 3 special elections. I hope they do take this course.
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· 1 year ago
Like the woman crying at the gas station I saw last night. She wasn't crying about the state of the country and her not voting uniformed idiot ass. She was probably crying because her boyfriend had just dumped her for someone else or some shit and she didn't have enough money for the rising gas prices to dramatically exit, temporarily.
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· 1 year ago
Look, you could just tell,she doesn't. vote And then she want's to make a dramatic exit because Troy dumped her. That about sums it up about too many americans. I'm actually glad I didn't have the money to give her.
michaelt
· 1 year ago
yes, concentrate on that offensive terrorist fist jab.
these guys have got NOTHING.
brilliantatbreakfast
· 1 year ago
Joe, I don't think for one minute that McCain "can't" control these people. This is a coordinated "good cop/bad cop" strategy designed to keep McCain's nose clean while running a negative campaign becuase that's all they have.
Hawk
· 1 year ago
with Americans showing an overwhelming preference for Democratic positions across virtually the entire spectrum of issues, the GOP has to make the race about something else. This year as in 2000 and 2004, the Republicans will try to turn the race into a presidential personality contest. And to win it, they need to manufacture a “character gap” between John McCain and Barack Obama.
voters trust Democrats more than Republicans on each and every one of the 10 issues measured. Democrats enjoy double-digit advantages on the economy (50%-36%), government ethics (45%-26%), health care (54%-33%), Social Security (49%-36%), education (50%-35%), Iraq (50%-39%) and immigration (45%-35%). The GOP lags by smaller margins on national security, taxes and abortion.
Meanwhile, an ABC News/Washington Post poll similarly reflects the devastating impact for the GOP of Americans’ record-setting disapproval for President Bush and the direction of the country…With 82% of respondents now believing the U.S. has gone off the rails, Democrats have built a massive 21 point cushion (53%-32%) as the party Americans trust to “do a better job in coping with the main problems the nation faces over the next few years.”
The calculus is simple. If Americans vote the issues, Republicans lose. Which is why character matters more than policy to the Republican faithful.
By a two-to-one margin, Democrats said policy positions matter most. But Republican respondents argued the reverse, with character trumping issues by 49% to 43%. Among independents, policy proposals rank as more important, by 49% to 32%. As a result, the Rasmussen poll like the later ABC/WaPo survey showed a dramatic advantage for the Democratic Party in a generic presidential match-up:
“The survey found that 48% of the nation’s adults are inclined to vote for a Democratic Presidential candidate while 34% prefer a Republican.”
Which is precisely why the Republican Party cannot let the 2008 election be about the issues.
The data is clear. If the election is about the economy, health care and Iraq, John McCain cannot become the 44th president. Only if the GOP succeeds once again in transforming the race into a media medley about lapel pins, angry ministers and Muslim-sounding middle names can the Republicans hope to maintain their hold on the White House.
The right-wing media machine is already hard at work on producing the 2008 version of the character gap. The supposed elitism of Barack Obama (and not the perpetually out-of-touch John McCain) has already emerged as an indispensable, if demonstrably false, conservative story line
Its a strong chance the GOP will go ultra negative, but the jury is still out on how effective it will be. Hillary went negative too, and it is arguable that she ended up winning some of the later primaries because of it. However, it is also arguable that her making charges of sexism may have been more beneficial to her as it mobilized women voters. I guess the good thing is that McCain can't really use sexism as a way to get votes (except on the few ultra-partisan Clinton supporters who see Obama being a msyognist), but it will be interesting to see if her tries to use some kind of ageism arguement, that Obama is being direspectful of his seniority or something. The senior citizen vote is huge in this country and if the GOP can figure out a way to paint Obama as being disrespectful of seniors, game over.
We will see.
sunnyjim
· 1 year ago
I kept checking in with Sean Hannity's drive-time radio show last week, and he devoted each and every afternoon to attacking Obama. He finds enough yahoos to call in and agree with him. Expect this to continue non-stop for the next five months.
Plisko
· 1 year ago
Republicans are a one trick poney. The problem is that the pony is getting old and grey and everyone has already seen the act.
blackwolf
· 1 year ago
Negative campaign ads work because American's are stupid as hell! It's amazing, the GOP can actually admit to the entire world this is what they plan to do--and it still goes unchallenged.
I'm convinced more than ever that the Republican party has its hand on the pulse of the millions of hard-working, blue collar folks of this country. Only thing is, it ain't much of a pulse.
All Comments
McCain covets the Presidency and will stop at nothing.
have no clue as to what Bush and Cheney were up to, or what Exxon is up to,
or what the K street lobbyists are up to. Years ago a Congressman said, "If
the American people knew what we were doing here in the Beltway, there would
be rioting in our streets."
with. He had a very good thought. He said, "I think one day they woke up and
realized they could get away with it." By this he was talking about the post
Watergate era and how the media gave up after that because of the corporate
consolidation. There was no longer a fourth estate keep watchdog over what
is going on. We are in seriously deep shit if McCain somehow steals this
one. Not only will be do nothing but he is not that bright.
Stay at home moms, you may not have a home to stay at home in, foreclosure could be in the cards.
Dems need to, however, concentrate on McBush's negatives, set out nicely here:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/9/7255...
as well as past history, including Keating 5, and anything else they can dig up, which appears to be quite a load to hoist onto him.
I have hope. And hope that nothing happens to McBush, to prevent another from stepping in who has fewer negatives than this skirt-chasing egomaniac.
these guys have got NOTHING.
voters trust Democrats more than Republicans on each and every one of the 10 issues measured. Democrats enjoy double-digit advantages on the economy (50%-36%), government ethics (45%-26%), health care (54%-33%), Social Security (49%-36%), education (50%-35%), Iraq (50%-39%) and immigration (45%-35%). The GOP lags by smaller margins on national security, taxes and abortion.
Meanwhile, an ABC News/Washington Post poll similarly reflects the devastating impact for the GOP of Americans’ record-setting disapproval for President Bush and the direction of the country…With 82% of respondents now believing the U.S. has gone off the rails, Democrats have built a massive 21 point cushion (53%-32%) as the party Americans trust to “do a better job in coping with the main problems the nation faces over the next few years.”
The calculus is simple. If Americans vote the issues, Republicans lose. Which is why character matters more than policy to the Republican faithful.
By a two-to-one margin, Democrats said policy positions matter most. But Republican respondents argued the reverse, with character trumping issues by 49% to 43%. Among independents, policy proposals rank as more important, by 49% to 32%. As a result, the Rasmussen poll like the later ABC/WaPo survey showed a dramatic advantage for the Democratic Party in a generic presidential match-up:
“The survey found that 48% of the nation’s adults are inclined to vote for a Democratic Presidential candidate while 34% prefer a Republican.”
Which is precisely why the Republican Party cannot let the 2008 election be about the issues.
The data is clear. If the election is about the economy, health care and Iraq, John McCain cannot become the 44th president. Only if the GOP succeeds once again in transforming the race into a media medley about lapel pins, angry ministers and Muslim-sounding middle names can the Republicans hope to maintain their hold on the White House.
The right-wing media machine is already hard at work on producing the 2008 version of the character gap. The supposed elitism of Barack Obama (and not the perpetually out-of-touch John McCain) has already emerged as an indispensable, if demonstrably false, conservative story line
Here comes Willie Horton!
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008...
We will see.
I'm convinced more than ever that the Republican party has its hand on the pulse of the millions of hard-working, blue collar folks of this country. Only thing is, it ain't much of a pulse.