Posted on 10/03/2008 10:57:39 AM PDT by hecht
The Second Palin Bounce and the Rise of John McCut Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 10:14 AM
Sarah Palin's comeback performance last night re-energized the GOP base, reignited her anti-Manhattan-Beltway elites message and re-opened the door to John . (Don't miss Bill Dyer's write-up of the meaning of last night's debate.)
Now Senator McCain has to walk through that door.
His simple, closing message ought to be that the world is threatened by terrorism, and the global economy is threatened by rising taxes, chains on productivity, pressure on trade, and corrupt, self-dealing political elites at home and abroad.
McCain needs to declare that he's been around a long time, and he's seen all the big mistakes made and all the costs paid, and that he isn't going to stand for it now.
McCain should pledge to be John McCut from day one in the White House:
He'll cut taxes on new businesses and construction to jump start a flat economy and invigorate employment;
He'll cut federal spending to make sure we have the resources for those that need it and not those who have gotten fat off of subsidies;
He'll cut the chains that government has put on productivity, allowing builders to build and energy companies to explore and producers to make;
He'll cut every trade barrier he can find and commit to an export economy that will surge the growth in American production of the goods and services demanded around the globe;
He'll cut the corrupt culture of self-dealing that allowed Freddie and Fannie to pump hundreds of billions of bad loans to over-their-head borrowers and into the economy and thereby infect our financial system to the point of collapse;
And finally, he'll cut the MSM down to size, calling them on their ridiculous double standard that sought to impale Palin while protecting Obama from his past. McCain should demand a MSM that serves that common interest, not the interest of Beltway-Manhattan elites and which holds all elected officials, not just conservative ones, to the fire. McCain should particularly demand that big media look at Fannie and Freddie and who turned them into Frankensteins and who profited thereby.
The "mad as Hell and not going to take it anymore" tone would reflect the mood in the country after the financial tremors of the past month, and the disgust with the Pelosi-Reid Congress and increasingly an absent Obama who, even when he was to be found, spoke only in the sort of finger-in-the-wind cliches that work in seminars but not in crises and certainly not in war.
John McCain has an opportunity not just to win but to demand senators and Congressmen and women he can work with to set the economy right and continue on the path to victory in Iraq, Afghanistan and the wider war.
A country at war and on the brink of economic crisis cannot afford four years of massive tax hikes, redistributionist rhetoric, and retreat. The Obama plan is depression and defeat delivered with ironic detachment. John McCain can stop that from happening, and he ought to spend the next 33 days promising to do so.
And he’ll see to it that not one dime of this bailout is wasted and that the taxpayers will get it all back.
McCain needs to use this boost and go out there and do his part!
He needs to fight back. HARD.
McCain needs to forget ‘etiquette’ and ‘running a respectful’ campaign, as he put it.
If he doesn’t get off his duff and get out there and hit Obama every day, he’s handing the presidency over to Barack Hussein Obama.
Why is he not mentioning such things as Obama trying to turn Missouri into a police state? Obama trying to turn our children into ‘Hitler youth’?
Email Republican headquarters/McCain.
REMIND McCAIN THAT HE HAS AN OBLIGATION AS OUR CANDIDATE TO FIGHT BACK!
To h*ll with bipartisian BS!
To h*ll with PC!
To h*ll with ‘conducting a respectful campaign’as McCain has said, and vowed to do.
RESPECTFUL CAMPAIGNING WENT STRAIGHT OUT THE WINDWO WITH OBAMA’S NASTY, BRUTAL COMMENTS SUCH AS;
‘lipstick on a pig’ and ‘You can wrap AN OLD FISH in a piece of paper called change. It’s still going to stink after eight years.’
Take off the gloves, McCain!
Hit the Marxist/Muslim hard with Ayers, Acorn, Violation of Logan Act, abortion, 2nd admendment, Campaigning for Odinga!!
MCCAIN WEBSITE
http://www.johnmccain.com/Contact/
THE CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST’S
GIANT E-MAIL LINKS PAGE!
http://www.conservativeusa.org/megalink.htm
This strategy is completely wrong. People have well-formed opinions of John McCain.
He needs to tear Obama down. Period.
I understand their strategy now - Palin is responsible for the first half of the bounce, while McCain takes care of the second half.
I simply told Mac to knock him down and kick him...repeatedly.
LOL Thanks
McCain needs to stop relying on Palin to give him his campaign bounces, because there will be no more big live Palin TV appearances. He has his work cut out for him now — he absolutely MUST step up to the plate and start swinging!
Sometimes the “old ways” are the best....:)
Hopefully JM will understand that Palin needs to be out there everywhere. It really is his only hope to win the election.
LOL What am I thinking his ego is so large he will stop her from being the most important candidate on the Republican ticket.
Contribute and volunteer. Go to your McCain-Palin HQ this weekend and volunteer. I did it in 2004 and I will do it again this year. Get the credit card out and contribute.
We are up against Middle East, Lib & Soros money backing Obama. We are up against a MSM that is pro-Obama 24x7. We are up against a market crash engineered by our enemies. The economy and market will come back especially if VP Palin pushes to develop our FOUR times the Saudis oil reserves in shale oil, coal diesel, and ND oil. Add in ANWR and offshore and we have FIVE times the saudis reserves for the next 100 years. The economic growth will be huge. No whining.
If you want another Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac then whine and wring your hands over the polls. The polls are coming back. We can and will win this thing but we have to get to work. No whining.
Contribute and volunteer to McCain-Palin. Think Patton not cry baby whining or finger pointing. Time to fight and win.
“McCain needs to forget ‘etiquette’ and ‘running a respectful’ campaign, as he put it.”
I would rather the surrogates do that while McCain targets the Independents and Moderate Democrats.
“And he’ll see to it that not one dime of this bailout is wasted and that the taxpayers will get it all back.”
I like that!
It seems to me that short of divine intervention, America will have to hit rock bottom before we start overturning all the socialism that has taken over our country.
Go McCain/Paliln!!!
“...make sure he is tucked safely in his bed and out cold at eleven pm.”
Isn’t it amazing how, suddenly, liberals become so “traditional” while trashing conservatives. I have no doubt Suzy would’ve sentenced little Trig to death were she the expectant mother who’d just found out he had Down’s.
Whoops. Posted to the wrong thread. Apologies!
“McCain needs to forget ‘etiquette’ and ‘running a respectful’ campaign, as he put it.”
I would rather the surrogates do that while McCain targets the Independents and Moderate Democrats.
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Well, so far NOBODY is doing it, and we’re going down the tube because of insane PC- which that sob Obama doesn’t know the meaning of.
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If he doesn’t get off his duff and get out there and hit Obama every day, he’s handing the presidency over to Barack Hussein Obama.
It almost seems as if McCain is choosing to not fight back. Then again....maybe he is? Consider these insights from Sun Tzu, in his sminal work on strategy "The Art Of War":
Wow. Thanks for an incredibly interesting post. Love it when events are approached from and unexpected direction. It is kinda neat to speculate that there might have been a grand plan behind all of the ups and downs of this wild campaign.
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