McCain incentivizing supporters to comment on blogs

Politico ^ | 5/21/08 | Jonathon Martin

[alicewonders]

If you do not want Obama. Get a new candidate. Otherwise you will get what you hate the most.

Great statement! It bears repeating.

[JoJo Gunn]

Did you notice the little drop-down box on the right side? (”suggested blogs”)

The Freep isn’t even listed, which speaks volumes. Reckon it’ll register with our resident McCainiacs when confronted?

[AuntB]

“What a joke.”

Good ‘conservative’ John McCain probably doesn’t know FR even exists.

Maybe he’ll come online and talk to us, answer questions.

Roflol

[dforest]

I think it is high time we “get a candidate WE CAN BELIEVE IN”, that is not McCain. It is asking too much to not accept the BS he believes in? I am tired of being told to shut up, vote, and not being granted freedom of speech.

What are we fighting for anyway? I am not fighting for a UN controlled, global world. Just not.

[E. Cartman]

No, he’s bribing them. They get points at his online store.

Oh, yeah, I can see it now. For every pro-MacCain message they post, they get one point. Then, when they've acumulated 1,000,000 points, Juanito's folks will send them a "Vote MacCain" pin.

[E. Cartman]

Time to join some of the sites that have received the offical MacCain campign seal of approval and post a few “MacCain is God” messages.

[alicewonders]

I couldn’t agree more! There is still time for us to find another candidate, IF we stop telegraphing the message to the party that we will vote for any slop just to keep the dems from winning. If we don’t stand up now - it will be a long time before we get the chance to again.

[AuntB]

There are several conservative talk radio hosts who have never been able to get McCain to appear, even when he was at the bottom of the polls, etc.

Conservative candidate? Hardly. But he has no problem appearing on say, Sat. Nite Live. A few years ago, there was a skit that portrayed McCain VERY badly, relating back to his POW experience. It was really over the edge, very demeaning. I remember a discussion here on FR about it. I think that’s the last time I watched that show I was so disgusted. And I can’t stand McCain, but there was NOTHING funny about what they did. Now, I ask, WHY doesn’t that tick McCain off as badly as he’s always ticked off at the rest of us ‘conservatives’??

[alicewonders]

Juan McCain has an obsessive hatred of conservatives that I think makes him mentally imbalanced and highly unstable. He’s just “not right”.

By the way, I love your tagline!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I think you may be on to something...

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

They are posting here. On almost any McCain thread, you will find posters who have signed up only in the last few months, are strong supporters, and do not post on any other threads. I do not expect any of them to be here after the first week in November.

Yup. Paid shills for Team Juan.

[LadyNavyVet]

“I think it is high time we “get a candidate WE CAN BELIEVE IN”, that is not McCain.”

I couldn’t agree more, and apparently we’re in the majority. A little factoid I found at Zogby:

“In what could spell bad news for the presumptive Republican nominee John McCain, an overwhelming 86% of self-described “very conservative” voters said they are displeased with the current presidential candidates - and 65% of these voters said they are very unsatisfied. The vast majority of conservatives (76%) and Republicans (76%) also expressed significant dissatisfaction with the current candidates, as did more than half of political independents (55%).

How satisfied are you with the current candidates for president?

Satisfied/Not satisfied
Likely voters 51% / 48%
Republicans 24% / 76%
Democrats 82% / 18%
Independents 44% / 55%

Note: Some totals may not equal 100% due to rounding”

The “gotta get a new candidate” contingent is huge—76%. I think I’ll keep that figure in my back pocket for the next time some McCainiac tries to tell me I’m on the lunatic fringe for not supporting McCain. That fringe is pretty crowded.

[batter]

I like Malkin’s suggestion: If you post here for points, put a disclaimer in your post or tagline.

[batter]

I just took a look at Redstate. They've put up a similar request.

See: WTH? Earning Points?

Feel free to say nice things about John McCain, but if you are doing it to accumulate points of some kind, I'd appreciate it if you disclose that fact.

Do you really need points to say something nice?

LOL!

[batter]

Oops. Let me try that link again. WTH? Earning Points?

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

They are posting here. On almost any McCain thread, you will find posters who have signed up only in the last few months, are strong supporters, and do not post on any other threads. I do not expect any of them to be here after the first week in November.

[LadyNavyVet]

Redstate's having fun with it:

"What are they giving out - free toasters?

Amway memberships."

[muawiyah]

Almost forgot about his Agitprop guys who are always slurring us. He’s got to have them totally disposed of. Maybe Juan Hernandez can round up some of his narcotrafficante buddies and really do a job on them.

[AuntB]

Your tagline is great!! lol

[muawiyah]

That Saturday Night Live deal probably allowed him to expose himself “under the table” so to speak ~ guy’s getting old and things like that can happen.