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What's McCain's Next Play?

Nogbad said:
If the economic news continues to dominate and Iraq and Afghanistan stay quiet he could be sunk but...
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It would take something drastic on the war or national security fronts to take the eye off the economy at this point in time, and I mean drastic in the truest sense of the word. Looking at the electoral situation he needs to win Florida and Ohio, two states that are being pounded by the ill effects of this current situation. The suburban areas of Colorado in the corridor between Colorado Springs and Fort Collins are also being hit pretty hard, those are the voters John McCain needs to keep Colorado red.

I think he'll probably hang on to Missouri and Indiana, no telling on Virginia, but he's simply got to change the economic trajectory of his campaign in Florida and Ohio or he's toast. How does he do that? Well for starters he can stop with the gimmicks such as suspending his campaign, playing on sentiments of the day (literally, that day) and come out with a detailed economic plan. On his website he is still calling for a summer gas tax holiday as part of his relief plan, really it's a joke.

Given the confidence Palin displayed last night, he might try to reignite the culture war in a big way as well in an attempt to stir up values voters. I thought that was his plan all along with the Palin pick, but every time she has been on the TV trying to light the kindling on same sex marriage, abortion, gun rights, etc. she's had a meltdown that overshadowed everything else.
 
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Going uber-negative is really McCain's only shot.

I'm thinking it'll work as well for him as it did for Bush Sr. in 92.
 
chipmunk stew said:
Drop Palin and pick up Lieberman?
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McCain would be sunk for sure if he did that. He'd immediately lose the support of most of the religious right conservatives who are giddy about Palin. And without the GOP base, McCain has no chance at all.
 
SezMe said:
We're gonna see the ressurection of Rev. Wright. Big time.
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Yup, that and the whole William Ayers thing. Now that McCain and the GOP are obviously backed into a corner, they're going to turn the negative-ads dial all the way up to 11.

If you thought the mud-slinging in 2004 was bad, you ain't seen nothing yet.
 
McCain's last move could be to phone Bush and tell him that right about then is a good time to start that war with Iran George has been itching to start. So Bush starts war declares national emergency elections get waived and lo and behold the status que gets preserved. Elections? what elections? We don't need no stinking elections!
 
McCain should drop out of the race and endorse Ron Paul and get outta the way for real change.
 
McCain's last move could be to phone Bush and tell him that right about then is a good time to start that war with Iran George has been itching to start.
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I wouldn't doubt someone in the McCain campaign has contemplated eleventh hour fear mongering as a strategy of last resort, but it would likely backfire in a big way. It didn't work in 2004 when the Bush team tried scare people into thinking we'd be more likely to be attacked again if a Democrat was elected and it certainly wouldn't work now.

When it came down to Obama v Clinton in the primary he pretty well had her pinned into a corner where any drastic moves or new lines of attack against him made her look desperate or evil. McCain is headed strait into that same position with all the idiotic press conferences and campaign maneuvers over the past few weeks, to the point where his only hope will be to come out guns blazing with attack ads as others have mentioned.
 
Crowlogic said:
McCain's last move could be to phone Bush and tell him that right about then is a good time to start that war with Iran George has been itching to start. So Bush starts war declares national emergency elections get waived and lo and behold the status que gets preserved. Elections? what elections? We don't need no stinking elections!
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The amazing thing to me is that all of those commies and hippies who claimed we were beating the war drums on Iran somehow missed the very provocative way Biden described Pakistan.

I'm shocked Biden didn't march into Greta Van Sustern's studio earlier in the week and detain the president of Pakistan himself, who was talking with her during his US visit.
 
HereticHulk said:
McCain should drop out of the race and endorse Ron Paul and get outta the way for real change.
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The only way Ron Paul could have won is if the Democrats had nominated Osama bin Laden and moveon.org.

Ron Paul, catastrophe you can believe in!
 
corplinx said:
The amazing thing to me is that all of those commies and hippies who claimed we were beating the war drums on Iran somehow missed the very provocative way Biden described Pakistan.

I'm shocked Biden didn't march into Greta Van Sustern's studio earlier in the week and detain the president of Pakistan himself, who was talking with her during his US visit.
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Iran != Pakistan
 
Crowlogic said:
McCain's last move could be to phone Bush and tell him that right about then is a good time to start that war with Iran George has been itching to start. So Bush starts war declares national emergency elections get waived and lo and behold the status que gets preserved. Elections? what elections? We don't need no stinking elections!
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HereticHulk said:
McCain should drop out of the race and endorse Ron Paul and get outta the way for real change.
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Jesus, what is this? Fantasyland? It's Friday night so maybe everyone is posting while ****faced. There must be SOME explanation for the nuttery level in here.
 
ZenFountain said:
I wouldn't doubt someone in the McCain campaign has contemplated eleventh hour fear mongering as a strategy of last resort, but it would likely backfire in a big way. It didn't work in 2004 when the Bush team tried scare people into thinking we'd be more likely to be attacked again if a Democrat was elected and it certainly wouldn't work now.
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Gawd, it must be the air. Remind me again who won in 2004.
 
SezMe said:
Jesus, what is this? Fantasyland? It's Friday night so maybe everyone is posting while ****faced. There must be SOME explanation for the nuttery level in here.
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It's a day of the week ending in ...day?
 
SezMe said:
Gawd, it must be the air. Remind me again who won in 2004.
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I know who won in 2004, what I said was Rove's tactic of trying to scare people into thinking that we'd be less safe with Kerry didn't work, it actually backfired and got Kerry back in the race after the first debate when Kerry hammered Bush on how it was the war in Iraq that was making us less safe. Winning in the end doesn't validate every tactic used in a campaign.
 
ZenFountain said:
The only way Ron Paul could have won is if the Democrats had nominated Osama bin Laden and moveon.org.

Ron Paul, catastrophe you can believe in!
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Well the Dems and Reps have more or less put OBL on a pedestal and are playing directly into his stated goal for America.

And if by catastrophe you mean real change for peace, prosperity and sound economy? I agree.
 
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