Posted on 08/28/2008 9:40:08 PM PDT by Impy
ABC's George Stephanopoulos reports: Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., wants to win the election in November. But he does not want to steal Sen. Barack Obama's, D-Ill., thunder this evening, as the Democrat becomes the first African American to accept a major party's nomination for president.
A senior McCain campaign official tonight said the news of the Republican's running mate, which is scheduled to be announced tomorow in Dayton, Ohio, will not upstage Obama tonight.
"There will be no announcement tonight. There will be no leak tonight. This is Barack Obama's night. His nomination is a singular achievement. Tonight's his night to make his case," a senior campaign official said.
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Berry is begging for a smackdown with his arrogant pap.
Is that story about the VP or his underwear?
this made me lol.
Nah, all the leaks today were probably to gather up reaction to the various choices...
I truly hope that November 4 isn’t also Obama’s night! I truly hope that November 4 isn’t the Democratic Party’s night at any political level!
And leak what? That he chose PAWlenty, the Official SpokesDog for Petco? Bo-ring! I think at this point I would rather he chose Lieberman because at least it would be interesting. If he picks the absolute nobody that is Pawlenty, it will be a disaster.
Actually I think it shows the strength of the McCain campaign.
A) If McCain would have leaked it tonight it would have turned Obama into the victim.
B) Obama couldn’t keep his VP secret and it leaked out ruining his actual text message announcement.
C) It shows McCain to be very strong to only release the name when he’s ready.
I think McCain’s getting all the nominees in one place.. and may not have even notified the person yet.
McCain learned from Obama’s debacle. Since all the top contenders will be in one place it’s harder to find out who the actual VP is.
Because everyone is packing their bags for Ohio. Except Huckabee. :)
If a 'Rat leaks news the last evening of the Republican convention, that's News.
The other way around, that's being a bad sport.
The rules are different for us and them.
I think the rapid response to the speech from the McCain team was a pretty hard smackdown. This shows great disciplne on his team’s part. Barry’s speech will have a short shelf life thanks to the them waiting till the morning or the event to announce.
The weekend news cycle will be about McCain and Hurricanes.
McCain has pathetic loser written all over him. Depending on his VP pick, maybe not a bad thing.
McCain has said all along he was going to announce this pick on Friday (tomorrow)
It’s his birthday. There was speculation he might release the name early.. but every political strategist from Karl Rove to Howard Wolfson said that was a bad idea.
He is going to get creamed by that Socialist.
He wants to be a "nice guy".
That--being on the defensive and constantly reaching across the aisle--and being a flaming RINO, are two good reasons to see that there will be more of this; shame and pity on the Republican Party.
all we know is that he won’t pick Biden for VP
Looks like Sarah Palin’s charter landed in Dayton tonight!
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N222GY
LOL!
It would get really interesting if he chose somebody of his own party like Hillary, Lindsey Graham, or even Ted Kennedy.
Better yet, just pick Lincoln Chafee.
Fly your true colors, Juan! Hoist 'em high so all your mugwhores, drunk on Kool-Aid, can see 'em!
We’ll all be the pathetic loser if Obama wins.
Whoa! What’s that all about! Yikes!
It won’t be Cantor, he is on LKL tonight. ALthough they didn’t say where Cantor was.
Gotta love a bit of Socialist on Socialist, eh? Rodent on rodent!
Sometimes it's good for the soul. /sarc
One guy told me once in FR... I kid you not, that it did not matter WHO the Republican nominee was, and if he was a flaming Ripon Republican and even had SATAN as his running mate, he would STILL vote GOP. Not an inkling to vote for an Alternative Conservative/Third Option on the ballot.
Have you seen any of McCain’s recent ads? He has been disembowling Obamayers and popping his messiah baloon.
Did you see McCain’s rapid response to bambi’s speech tonight? McCain flattened bambi.
I don’t think he is being a “nice guy” at all, at least not in the past few weeks.
Its chess folks, not checkers. In this chess match McCain seems to be doing well.
From where I sit it appears the the McCain campaign closed the gap and overtook Obama before the DNC. This put major pressure on Obama and the dems during the convention, pressure that I think they did not deal well with. Nonetheless, Barry will get his bounce, but it will be a bounce from a dead heat or trailing slightly, not a bounce widening a pre-convention lead. McCain’s camp knows that they too will get a bounce and, at the very least, be able to put this campaign exactly where it was before the Barry Does Denver show. Thus, McCain does not have to operate from a panic, unlike Barry. He can take his time with his V.P. pick and still be able to steal Barry’s thunder. I mean, the day after Barry descends from Olympus to deal another teleprompter lightening bolt and, bam, McCain is on the center stage.
I expect a new celebrity ad in no time flat. The Barakolopis was built by the same set designer that Briteny Spears uses. With pictures of the rock concert and all the celebs who were there. Is he ready to rock with the stars? Yes, but is he ready to lead? No. (Or something like that anyway).
My oh my...this could get interesting.
I am not Mccainiac, to say the least, but he has done the total opposite of your description for the past month. He has stayed 100% on the offensive and has not let bambi off the mat for one second. Bambi's speech tonight reflected that because he totally abandoned the positive retoric and attacked McCain and Bush for the majority of the speech, compeltely defensive posturing to deflect what McCain has charged him with. I am certain that is what the McCain team wanted him to do. Bambi is completely off his game due to superior campaign management by McCain's people.
Romney, Pawlenty, Hutchison, Huckabee, Lieberman - ALL distractions while Palin sliently flew in from Alaska and will walk out from behind the curtain tomorrow when McCain makes his announcemant... I can dream can’t I?
Yes you can. It certainly would be sweet.
I love your graphic!
you don’t know the real McCain, you little jerk. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2zx3-0zOPs
Good deal!
Shouldn’t you be on the way to Ohio? ;-)
I’m loading up on Palin on Intrade @ $5
=P
Get serious. Johnny is stretching this out to get as much press out of it as possible. Look how much discussion there was about it today even though it was supposed to be Barack’s big day. He knows what he’s doing.
If he doesnt pick a conservative pro-life woman...he’s doomed...
I hope it’s Palin.
Sounding more possible. I didn’t think she was going to be there on Friday.
that picture isn’t the clinton thingy with a little photoshop ??????
That 'Depends'.
;-)
Wow, that’s a scoop. Why would she fly in to Ohio to be told “no thanks.”
After all, summer is just about over in Alaska. She would probably rather stay at home.
Nice find.
I don’t know what type of aircraft the State of Alaska uses for their governor. I could see her going from Juneau to Anchorage though if she needed to charter a larger aircraft. I hope you’re on to something here. :o)
Whoa. We had SUMMER??
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