Okay, heads up. Several things are important here:
1) McCain’s campaign is staffed by professionals. They saw this effect unfolding before we got this data. That is why they pulled the trigger to try desperately to redirect the debate to Iraq when they knew the talk shows this morning would be filled with Economic Stimulus Package.
2) They also orchestrated the Crist endorsement with the same scheduling need, though certainly that needed to happen before Tuesday regardless.
3) The Romney team is also staffed by professionals so their response was to undermine McCain’s Straight Talk mantra by going right after the word “dishonest” and it is THAT word that is getting all the play this morning. Brilliant tactical response.
4) The reason it is brilliant is that team of cynical business trained people recognized that the MSM is on the hunt for ratings. A dispassionate discussion of Iraq, that has been squeezed dry of all interest, does not have ratings boosting potential like a fight over whether McCain is dishonest. They KNEW the MSM would latch on that word.
5) The McCain pros will know either today or late tonight if they were successful when the night’s polling sample is collected. If they attack again with something else tomorrow, we’ll know how it played.
Look at these bozos running... they all look like crap...
Not one of them looks good except Romney. None of these bozos have ever done anything that wasn’t connected with some sort of government excess.
Romney doesn’t NEED the job, he can do just fine on his own in the private sector. The rest would be groveling for chump change if it wasn’t for some type of government work or insider contacts with a state enterprise.
I have seen lots of convoluted, meandering definitions of “conservatism,” but when the rubber hits the road, who would be left standing with no worries in THE PRIVATE SECTOR based solely on their own merit???
Romney is the only one of them...
The last thing the Democrats want is a tall, vibrant, healthy man like Mitt Romney standing next to their short, fat old hag during the national debates.
Excellent analysis.... you must have some experience in this arena! :-)
Two questions:
1) Is Rudy now history? Or, will his early-vote dominance be able to save him in Florida?
2) How long can/will Huckaby stick around and keep spitting the vote?
Say what you want - Mitt is a candidate that I might not agree with on each and every subject, but I can RESPECT him and his wife. I won’t have to be worrying about him drinking and doping and running around on his wife. I won’t have to worry about him cursing and throwing things and having temper tantrums.
A moral President is very important to me. They tend to appoint people with integrity to cabinet positions.
If you remember when the Clintons were in office not only were they lacking in the basic moral values that most Americans hold dear, but they made sure that everyone they appointed to the cabinet were extremely liberal and also lacking in morals. Their cabinet was setup using the principals of organized crime.Tthey surrounded themselves with people that were afraid of having things exposed about their finances or personal life. That way no one would have the courage to tell the truth about them.
Just like the mafia the people that dared to speak out were either killed or destroyed. That is why they needed the FBI files. To set up their empire.