Posted on 02/16/2008 4:12:55 AM PST by rhema
You are right. You can see the naivete in the crowd’s faces at his rallies. It’s like Oprah’s audience making fools of themselves for her givaways on her “My Favorite Things” shows. Obama is Santa Claus.
No flame wars here. We’re both prognosticating, and your guess is as good as mine. It’s true that the youth vote usually doesn’t show up at the polls and the elderly vote does. That could make the difference, although, so far, the youth vote is showing up in the primaries.
This election is going to break new ground on a lot of fronts. It’ll be the first minority, either black or female, vs. the first Republican trying to win without the full suppport of his base. Nobody knows how that’s going to play out.
Exactly, unfortunately. McCain is the worse candidate the GOP has ever chosen. He is worse than Bob Dole who was a good guy at least and did not stab Repubs in the back while in the Senate.
My 18 year old son will vote for Obama also. If you go back and listen to some of the Reagan speeches, you will note that Reagan did not talk in specifics-like Obama. He was criticized for this at the time.
Americans like to hear about hope and prefer an optimistic message. I am a Repub, I will probably not vote for the president this year. However, when I hear laundry lists about what a person will do, the cost etc. I think how can anyone really know specifics before being elected. Tell me where you want to take the country, not the nuts and bolts of the thing.
McCain is not believable and can do nothing to win my vote. He has no GOP support (less than 50%). In my opinion, he would be worse than a Democrat-colludes with Dems and forces/gives cover for Repubs to go along to get along passing a Dem agenda. No candidate who has show such disregard for the first amendment (McCain - Feingold) will ever receive my vote.
You are correct about that. It is really funny listening to Rush’s latest Obama parody, a commercial. (One like the Democrats are running.) of Liberal’s reasons for voting for Obama.
The first time I heard it, I needed oxygen to recover. It is so brilliant and intelligent that it should be made national.
Have you heard it? If not, listen to Rush, he will play it. It is one of his biggest hit parodies.
Juan McCain came right out and said he doesn’t need Conservative voters to win the primaries. But of course after the statistics came in and he found out just how many Conservatives out there refuse to support him, he changed his tune. He also sees the more than double turn-out for the Dems.
He started thinking that maybe he might need us on his side after all. Hence the latest beg session from his campaign to convince us he is really Conservative. (Most of the time.)
Well, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on ME!
The man is an empty suit making hollow promises to get elected. His corrupt character will go back to it’s old self if the unthinkable happens and we help elect him.
Like I said before; Fool me once..........
WRONG!
That means we would have to vote for Huckabee..........
NO OPTION, NO WAY!
This election is not about “party”, it’s about “country”. The Clintons would be very bad for the USA, Barack Hussein Obama would be a disaster. It’s time to grow up and realize there is something bigger than ideological “purity” at stake. An Obama presidency would be the end of America as we know her.
You got it...first order of business for Pres. McCain would be to teach those uppity conservatives a lesson by bringing back fairness doctrine. Wake up Repubs- McCain is more dangerous than either Dem candidate. They would be reined in by Repubs-but not Johnny boy the maverick. He would spit on Repubs and cater to Dems as usual.
We survived Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. This country is bigger than one president. There are no great candidates my friend. Repub pundits believe McCain would be worse for the country than a Dem.
If Obambi is elected, there will be a revolution in this country, with American patriots trying to take back their beloved America from the tyrannical clutches of Marxism.
And with McCain,it will take a little longer to get there. If this is he best the GOP can do, it’s broken and needs to be fixed now not later, why put off the pain?
I am convinced that you are correct on this. McCain has already demonstrated via McCain-Feingold that he has no qualms about destroying the First Amendment right of free speech. If McCain ever became President, he would immediately get his liberal buddies in Congress to institute the fairness doctrine to drive talk radio off the airwaves. Once free speech is gone, tyranny and persecution would quickly follow. Therefore, you are correct that "McCain is more dangerous than either Dem candidate."
Won't happen if the top of the ticket goes down.
"Not since George McGovern has the difference between presidential candidates been so great."
(I have to wonder how many here on FR actually remember McGovern.)
NATIONAL SECURITY
McCain certainly can contend that the policy he championed made things better while the policy of immediate retreat which Obama still favors would spell defeat and chaos for American and its allies.
THE COURTS
Obama looks at the courts through the lens of the liberal civil rights lobby: the courts are there to achieve “progress” on the liberal agenda that could never be enacted by the elected branches of government. WHAT HAS HE DONE?
His supporters are fond of comparing Obama to John Kennedy, but Kennedy had served in the military, the House of Representatives (1947-53) and the U.S. Senate (1953-1960) before entering the White House.
McCain’s best bet is to point to the stature gap and hope that after another 6 months the Obama-hoopla wears thin. We are, after all, electing a president.
INDEPENDENTS
For those who like “good government” few have done more than McCain to go after earmarks, corruption and pork barrel spending. Framing that issue for these voters is easy: which contender has the ability to fix Washington and which one is as far from the middle-of –the-road than any nominee in a generation?
HE’LL GIVE YOU CHANGE ALRIGHT
Several things Obama will change for the worse: tax rates, the bipartisan commitment to free trade, secret ballots in union elections, and the private healthcare system.
details are exactly what McCain should focus on. “Change” sounds lovely, even inevitable, but once the level of generalities is broken an underlying reality is made clear: Obama is running on a platform that is nothing more than a liberal wish list.
As effective as a sentence on the internet.
Better the Democrats get the blame for the coming economic $h@t storm. Let them try to push health care and global warming. The economy will crash to the degree that the public will put a bounty on Democrats before it is all over.
Then the adults will step back up to the plate like Reagan did after the Carter mess.
McCain can beat Obama in the swing states and that’s all that matters in a genral election. Barack is at the high water mark. From here on in his favorability ratings will begin to decline.
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