Posted on 10/10/2008 4:08:06 PM PDT by pissant
McCain just killed all the momentum and enthusiasm of the last week with this simple sentence in response to an angry attendee at a rally tonight:
“I have to tell you, he is a decent person, a person that you do not have to be scared [of] as president of the United States."
“No, ma’am. He is a decent family man, citizen"
“Man up, people.”
No sh!t. I so tire of this. FR seems to have some bizzar-o split personality these days. ;)
His FIRST STATEMENT I quoted had nothing to do with the “arab” accusation. It was in response to someone who was afraid of Obama being POTUS. He gave THE WORST POSSIBLE RESPONSE.
McCain is not Reagan, and this is not your father's democrat party. Carter was a disaster who got his just deserts-- but even so, the 'rat party then was not dominated and controlled by totalitarian anti-American psychopaths.
It is now. And geniality won't suffice.
PA Times, like the MSM, is in the tank for Obama. PA Times was gloating about Palin’s teenage daughter being pregnant.
No, it is the nominee that has a bizarro split personality. Unleashing ads pounding Obama as “too risky”, a liar, and a friend to ACORN and Ayers,.....then he says THIS crap today.
“Besides, Bush was down 11 points at this same point is 2004”
Can you source your data? I’d be interested in looking at it (what poll, internals, etc).
Hey, buck up. We already knew McCain is capable of saying dumb things.
I’m speechless and pissed off so I’ll just repeat your succinct words.
“McCain is not Reagan, and this is not your father’s democrat party. Carter was a disaster who got his just deserts— but even so, the ‘rat party then was not dominated and controlled by totalitarian anti-American psychopaths.”
"Bush fatigue" doesn't factor b/c even the most uneducated of voters knows that McCain and Bush are NOT the same person, no matter how much Obama is trying to indicate otherwise. The financial meltdown has clearly been shown to be the fault of the Democrats, and McCain has been--sort of--hitting that point (this is where WE do a lot of his heavy lifting). The "unpopular war" hasn't factored in at all so far, beyond Obama trying to double-deal a sitting President and a couple of brigades' worth of Soldiers.
There were ways to handle this without handing a grade A, primo soundbite to Obama and the MSM. All McCain had to do was ignore the Arab part and say that Obama’s POLICIES were scary, and then proceed to describe how.
I think you're getting two separate incidents confused as one. Some middle-aged bald guy made the "afraid" comment and some old lady made the "Arab" comment. Totally agree with you that McCain screwed the pooch on the "afraid" comment. However, with the "Arab" thing, what exactly was he supposed to do? He couldn't let that one stand. As someone said to me on another thread, he's running for the President of the entire United States, Arabs and Muslims, too. He gave the press a halfway embarrassing soundbite, but he handled it in pretty much the only way he could--cut her off, disown the comment by completely contradicting it. He couldn't parse words or even appear to agree with her comment. THAT would have been real bad.
“help the choir not be pissed off.”
The choir has every right to be pissed. McCain screwed the pooch, big time, 25 days before the election.
“Undecideds (ie wimps) may like is reaction..”
He just told the undecideds that Obama is a citizen (there goes the birth cert. issue) a decent family man(there go any other personal issues that may have gotten traction in the final days) and that nobody has to fear Obama as President (there goes the main reason undecideds have to vote for McCain.)
McCain wants to be the most powerful man on the planet, yet he doesn’t have a good answer to a question he should have seen coming from a mile away. He’s already got my vote banked, but I almost wish I could get it back. He’s not worthy of my vote.
Exactly, throw Romney in the mix (albeit he is a moderate) and you have a major clash of egos that wouldn't get behind each other. If, for example, they all got behind Thompson against Rudy and McCain RINOS, we would have an unstoppable force as our nominee now. Imagine for a moment......
Thompson/Palin
Sure. I reported it. That’s gloating in your twisted little world.
It is too late for anyone else to pick up the pieces this year. Even worse, this election likely marks the end of the Republican Party altogether.
Good thing that lady isn't running for president.
As for mccain, he could have said any number of things in response. M'am, he's an american who is ill informed and is dangerous, which is it is important that Americans vote for me. Or- he's no arab, but he is dangerous.
Why pissant did you remove the remaining part of the McCain sentence?
Has mccain considered this? Ask him, he was the one running.
A good answer to the Arab comment off the top of my head. “Ma’am, ethnicity is not a political issue in ths country, but policies are. So let me tell you about Obama’s economic policies...” If I can do that, why can’t McCain, who thinks he has the chops to be POTUS?
“The financial meltdown has clearly been shown to be the fault of the Democrats...”
Maybe to you and most Freepers, but the undecideds haven’t gotten the message. They’re blaming Bush and the Republicans for the demise of their 401Ks.
“McCain and Bush are NOT the same person...”
Name the last time a member of the same party as an eight-year incumbent President with an historically low approval number was elected.
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