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You Guys Are Nuts (Face it, McCain is Toast)
http://www.nationalreview.com/ ^ | October 07, 2008 | Andy McCarthy

Posted on 10/07/2008 8:31:10 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45

You Guys Are Nuts [Andy McCarthy]

We have a disaster here — which is what you should expect when you delegate a non-conservative to make the conservative (nay, the American) case. We can parse it eight ways to Sunday, but I think the commentary is missing the big picture.

Here's what Obama needed to do tonight: Convince the country that he was an utterly safe, conventional, centrist politician who may have leftward leanings but will do the right thing when the crunch comes.

Now, as the night went along, did you get the impression that Obama comes from the radical Left? Did you sense that he funded Leftist causes to the tune of tens of millions of dollars? Would you have guessed that he's pals with a guy who brags about bombing the Pentagon? Would you have guessed that he helped underwrite raging anti-Semites? Would you come away thinking, "Gee, he's proposing to transfer nearly a trillion dollars of wealth to third-world dictators through the UN"?

Nope. McCain didn't want to go there. So Obama comes off as just your average Center-Left politician. Gonna raise your taxes a little, gonna negotiate reasonably with America's enemies; gonna rely on our very talented federal courts to fight terrorists and solve most of America's problems; gonna legalize millions of hard-working illegal immigrants.

McCain? He comes off as Center-Right .. or maybe Center-Left ... but, either way, deeply respectful of Obama despite their policy quibbles.

Great. Memo to McCain Campaign: Someone is either a terrorist sympathizer or he isn't; someone is either disqualified as a terrorist sympathizer or he's qualified for public office. You helped portray Obama as a clealy qualified presidential candidate who would fight terrorists.

If that's what the public thinks, good luck trying to win this thing.

With due respect, I think tonight was a disaster for our side. I'm dumbfounded that no one else seems to think so. Obama did everything he needed to do, McCain did nothing he needed to do. What am I missing


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KEYWORDS: 2008debates; andrewmccarthy; mccain; obama; rino
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To: imahawk

What 527’s? I haven’t seen squat. It has to be McCain, and it has to be on a national stage. The nightly newscasts will not give him that stage. Tonight was the night.


41 posted on 10/07/2008 8:39:18 PM PDT by dinoparty
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To: Para-Ord.45

Was McCain trying to not appear “erratic” as BO has claimed recently? Did BO snooker Mac?


42 posted on 10/07/2008 8:39:28 PM PDT by Aria ("An America that could elect Sarah Palin might still save itself." Vin Suprynowicz)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Hey McCarthy,
Aren’t you the a-hole who got Fitz to go after Scooter? Great job, now go vote for the One and STFU.


43 posted on 10/07/2008 8:39:36 PM PDT by mortal19440
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To: theymakemesick

“I’m voting McCain because of the potential Supreme Court justice appointments.”

Yeah, that’s the big issue for me as well. Some time back Rush pointed out that we’ll see Obama nominate Cornell West to the SC........that’s like putting Spike Lee up there....


44 posted on 10/07/2008 8:39:45 PM PDT by ForbesFan
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To: Para-Ord.45

This post is not helpful in the least. McCain was clearly the more sincere, for those capable of discerning who is lying and who is not. Obama told some enormous whoppers and continued a swagger worse than W that is a complete turn-off to anyone who truly does value our national security.


45 posted on 10/07/2008 8:39:46 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The Word of God is powerful. That's why so many people are afraid to read it.)
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To: Para-Ord.45
So Obama comes off as just your average Center-Left politician

That means HE is toast.

46 posted on 10/07/2008 8:40:07 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration ('we don't make compromises-we make Marines')
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To: Para-Ord.45
From AsiaTimesOnline, Feb 26, 2008

Barack Obama received at least some instruction in the Islamic faith of his father and went with him to the mosque, but the importance of this experience is vastly overstated by conservative commentators who seek to portray Obama as a Muslim of sorts. Radical anti-Americanism, rather than Islam, was the reigning faith in the Dunham household. ...

Barack Obama is a clever fellow who imbibed hatred of America with his mother's milk, but worked his way up the elite ladder of education and career. He shares the resentment of Muslims against the encroachment of American culture, although not their religion. He has the empathetic skill set of an anthropologist who lives with his subjects, learns their language, and elicits their hopes and fears while remaining at emotional distance. That is, he is the political equivalent of a sociopath. The difference is that he is practicing not on a primitive tribe but on the population of the United States.

There is nothing mysterious about Obama's methods. "A demagogue tries to sound as stupid as his audience so that they will think they are as clever as he is," wrote Karl Krauss. Americans are the world's biggest suckers, and laugh at this weakness in their popular culture. Listening to Obama speak, Sinclair Lewis' cynical tent-revivalist Elmer Gantry comes to mind, or, even better, Tyrone Power's portrayal of a carnival mentalist in the 1947 film noire Nightmare Alley. The latter is available for instant viewing at Netflix, and highly recommended as an antidote to having felt uplifted by an Obama speech. ..."

Article: Obama's women reveal his secret
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html

47 posted on 10/07/2008 8:40:12 PM PDT by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: nhwingut

McCain really messed up tonight. What happened? Did Keating Five force him to back off?

He has one more shot, next week, but dont count on it.


48 posted on 10/07/2008 8:40:19 PM PDT by bubbrubb
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To: All

I can’t tell which is worse, the many vanities about the debate or the hand-wringing, it’s over, all is lost posts about the debate.

If, because of tonight and what McCain was supposed to do, or say, according to you, you can’t vote for McCain/Palin, then don’t, dammit! Take your ball and go home, vote the downticket stuff and leave the president vote blank, or vote for Obama. Them’s your choices.


49 posted on 10/07/2008 8:41:04 PM PDT by Theresawithanh (I've got the fevah! McCain/Palin 2008!!!)
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To: Para-Ord.45
What am I missing

A good night's sleep

50 posted on 10/07/2008 8:41:08 PM PDT by kanawa (http://www.canadalovessarah.ca/)
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To: Para-Ord.45
WOW!!! someone is going to commit suicide. Take it easy people. Obama cannot win this election and he is not going to win this elections. If you think that those 20% of the white democrats who will never vote for a black person under any circumstances are going to vote for Obama then he will win but it is not going to happen.
51 posted on 10/07/2008 8:41:18 PM PDT by jveritas (Use the nuclear option against Obama: Jeremiah Wright)
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To: dinoparty

I thought there was going to be some swiftboating going on but didn’t BO’s team threaten legal action against anyone who tries? Unfortunately BO has the bucks to back up the threat.

We’re pretty close to finding out what it’s like to live in a fascist country devoid of free speech.


52 posted on 10/07/2008 8:41:31 PM PDT by Aria ("An America that could elect Sarah Palin might still save itself." Vin Suprynowicz)
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To: mware

Not at all. He’s a contributing editor to the National Review.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=

He’s very legitimate.


53 posted on 10/07/2008 8:41:34 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (The LA Times, 10/6/08, was told to cut "75 editorial positions." How many are needed for 2 pages?)
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To: Para-Ord.45
Remember this is Andrew McCarthy that defended Patrick Fitzgerald and praised him. McCarthy is a POS.
54 posted on 10/07/2008 8:41:59 PM PDT by jrooney (Obama's mentor says God Da*n America. That explains Obama's refusal to put his hand over his heart.)
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To: Para-Ord.45
From Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing:

"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution."[2]

[2] Saul Alinsky, The Latter Rain
http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm

55 posted on 10/07/2008 8:42:04 PM PDT by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: Para-Ord.45
"With due respect, I think tonight was a disaster for our side. I'm dumbfounded that no one else seems to think so. Obama did everything he needed to do, McCain did nothing he needed to do. What am I missing"

I also think it was a disaster, especially when coupled with the first debate, which was also a disaster. They were both disasters because of the missed opportunities. The debates are when you can speak directly to the people, and McCain hasn't used them to his advantage at all. McCain can't count on MSNBCABCAPCBSCNN to get his message out to the people.

Also, what in the hell is so dammed great about working with democrats? Are democrats never wrong on an issue? The best question possible to McCain would be, "Senator, is there an issue that you would not reach across party lines to solve"? Are liberals wrong about anything? They could ask McCain what he would do about an asteroid about to hit the Earth, and he would respond saying he would work with democrats... WTF?!?!

56 posted on 10/07/2008 8:42:17 PM PDT by KoRn ("Change": Come Help A Nitwit Get Elected)
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To: Para-Ord.45
"He blew the economic debate, the dominant issue."

McCain's insistence on being the nice guy who reaches across the aisle will be his downfall and ours as well. I see things as they are not as I wish they were.

P.S. I have a P12. Love it.

57 posted on 10/07/2008 8:42:17 PM PDT by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: Mr. Mojo
One thing’s certain — if McCain loses without going down swinging he’ll be public enemy #1 in the GOP. ...at least in conservative circles. More so than even before.

John McCain needs to get out there and get the job done. Governor Palin is carrying his water for him. If he costs us this election and causes Gov. Palin go down with him there won't be anyone of her caliber come along in years and years.

58 posted on 10/07/2008 8:42:21 PM PDT by jerry639
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To: Para-Ord.45
Over the last two weeks McCain allowed the dems and msm to define him on the bailout. He had to come out swinging in debate #1. Palin gave Biden a pass on it as well.

Too little too late now.

Game over.

59 posted on 10/07/2008 8:42:26 PM PDT by Tail Gunner John
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To: agooga

Hmmmmm...Choices....

Ya’ know I really could use a good beating....but I’m also a little hungry.....

What to do?!?


60 posted on 10/07/2008 8:42:45 PM PDT by nevergore ("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
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