Posted on 06/09/2008 12:56:27 PM PDT by pissant
McCain's campaign says it's ramped up efforts to rally Christian conservatives behind the presumptive Republican U.S. presidential nominee.
The campaign to get conservatives to the polls in 18 battleground states is low-key -- e-mailed messages and briefings of conservative leaders before McCain, R-Ariz., delivers key speeches, The New York Times reported Monday.
McCain's wooing of the conservative vote must be balanced against his appeal moderates and independents, political analysts said.
"Because the Republican brand name is less popular and the conservative base is restive, McCain has special needs to reach out to independent and moderate voters, but, of course, he can't completely neglect the evangelical and conservative base," John Green, a senior fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, told the Times.
Evangelicals played a key role electing in U.S. President George Bush, who doesn't shy from the role of religion in his life and used his faith his advantage in 2004. In contrast, McCain already in the 2008 presidential campaign distanced himself from two conservative ministers for anti-Islam and anti-Semitic remarks.
"For John McCain to be competitive, he has to connect with the base to the point that they're intense enough that they're contagious," Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said to the Times. "Right now they're not even coughing."
"F*** off, I don't need you" is a lot of things, but low-key isn't high on the list.
When they say "low key" do they mean invisible? Or is the middle finger now a "wooing" method?
I got my vaccine and a booster. McCain Feingold and then McCain Kennedy.
McQueeg, the man who voted against drilling in ANWR. I’d take Mitt over this clown anyday.
No, he needs lots and lots of Democrats & other Democrats that call themselves Independents.
It is so low key, it’s unnoticeable!
McCain could be giving free Prostrate exams and I still wouldn’t cough for him!
Convention revolt NOW! (that doesn't involve Ron Paul....)
He must be using gay body language, as only liberals seem to respond to him.
“”For John McCain to be competitive, he has to connect with the base to the point that they’re intense enough that they’re contagious,” Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said to the Times. “Right now they’re not even coughing.””
So he basicly ignores us for five months and now he comes with his hat in his hand? And quietly at that? If he wins maybe he’ll even thank us in public.../Sarcasm
low key, no key.
“McCain could be giving free Prostrate exams and I still wouldn’t cough for him!”
Implying that you WOULD let him examine you, just not cough? LOL...you might want to rethink that quip.
It’s that “wide stance” that he uses to reach across the aisle...
If Conservatives continue to with hold support and McCains numbers being what they are he will have to wooo us in a more forthright manner instead of undercover of darkness.
Several weeks ago McCain and his advisors said they didn’t the Conservative vote as it wasn’t that important any longer.
But now our vote is the deal clincher for him.
If he moves right of center I will vote McCain, otherwise he can rot in hades.
Exactly my thoughts. Good way to start shun a evangelical icon.
McCain can woo all he wants. This Christian boy ain't listening.
He doesn’t have to do much wooing. Obama is reason enough to vote for anyone other than him. If Obama gets in, left wing institutions will be entrenched and conservative voices quashed.
Replace low-key with the word stealth.
If McCain gains any traction with conservatives, it will be because Obama is seen as a dangerous communist/Marxist/Fascist, not because of anything McCain says or does to try to “woo them”.
Maybe a dog can hear him.
Convention revolt NOW! (that doesn’t involve Ron Paul....)
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awwwwwww .. no Paulian movement .. but then we’d be missing out on the salt in the wound..
THX for the link, I ran across it this morning and then couldn’t find it again.
It is so low key I must have missed it.
Don't you HATE IT?
That they think we are so damn @#%$# STUPID?... LIKE A BUNCH BRAINLESS COWS!... That can't remember what happened 10 minutes ago?... And just as as easily manipulated? assuming cows remember that long! :)
Every time they talk about us that way... I feel just like a cow... just as stupid... it feels like a kick in your... you know where!...
"Low-key" as in "NOT AT ALL"???
WHAT A JOKE! That's the most disingenuous news headline I've seen in a very long time.
RNC will not get my "steenking" money!
“If he moves right of center I will vote McCain,”
You mean his voting record counts for nothing and what he says during a campaign does count?
I’m going strictly by his voting record and couldn’t care less what he says now.
There’s no way I’ll vote for him.
You and your "ilk" are EXACTLY what went wrong with the Republican party. They feed you crap and you stand there and tell them it tastes great.
If what you said is true, then there would be NO reason for mclame to "quietly woo" Conservatives. Heck, mclame understands the importance of Conservative support, you, not so much. Hmmmm....
There are lots of “evangelicals” who are be coming “where’s my check?” democrats.
The media and progressive churches have done a good job of being false prophets.
McCain isn’t going to keep these people for the Pubs.
Rush said that the NewsMax story about McCain not meeting with Billy Graham wasn’t true. It’s on your link.
Not true according to Rush.
Why? The only ones who should feel like a cow are the ones planning to pull the lever for mclame. Don't take it so hard. They suck and we know it.
The story about him not meeting with Billy Graham isn’t true.
McCain isn’t wooing us. He’s telling us we have no choice but to vote for him. He’s telling conservatives to just shut up and send the checks.
I can just see the author (editor?) winking an eye and chuckling while they wrote that.
After a little more research, it appears that the campaign stupidly sent a form letter to the guy trying to broker the meeting, rather than explaining that they were already in contact with Graham's family about a meeting.
Special needs? Great, I thought he was just a Liberal a$$%&*#
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“Obama is reason enough to vote for anyone other than him. If Obama gets in, left wing institutions will be entrenched and conservative voices quashed.”
No more or less than McCain. Indeed, I think McCain will be more effective in helping the liberals, as the Republicans will follow in lock step behind him.
It’s a slow death, compared to a fast death.
This conservative left the plantation.
“McCain wooing conservatives in low-key way”
Really low-key.
It was "not true" after it was true. The link above is the actual letter. Now, I did some googling and found this as well....
""The piece in Newsmax is false. Our campaign has been working directly with Reverend Franklin Graham's office to facilitate an important meeting between John McCain and Reverend Billy Graham. The report's implication that we have 'declined to meet with Billy Graham' is blatantly false, because our campaign has already been working directly with Franklin Graham's office and politely declined Mr. Jacobs' offer to help facilitate a meeting. John McCain has the highest respect for Reverend Billy Graham and looks forward to meeting with him in the future."
IF that were true, why didn't they just say that in the letter?
Double your dose of prozac quickly. Who said I was a Republican? If you don't mind, stick to talking to other loons rather than humping the legs of people who are actually serious and not as callow as you come off.
In a different year he'd probably be right about that and get away with it.
I simply cannot see informed people who care, actually voting for him.
Well, you’re certainly NOT a Conservative. Serious? You??? You who states “He doesn’t have to do much wooing. Obama is reason enough to vote for anyone other than him.”
You are either a troll or a damn fool.
Nobody. "He doesn't have to do much wooing" gave you away.
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