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Can McCain Still Win?
Human Events ^ | Patrick J. Buchanan

Posted on 10/11/2008 12:52:53 PM PDT by Chet 99

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To: hiredhand

Actually we are winning....... I predict a landslide for Palin and McWhats his name.

Obama is a fabrication of the Socialist MSM and their handlers. Real Americans are on to their game.

Don’t worry be happy !........:o)


21 posted on 10/11/2008 1:10:14 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Chet 99

McCain has post-tramautic shock syndrome from his defeat at Bush’s hand in 2000. He refuses to do what Bush did to him in 2000 and negatively campaign.

Unfortunately, while Bush’s slams against McCain were lies, they weren’t against Kerry in 2004 and especially against Obama now in 2008. McCain’s old brain can’t seem to wrap his mind around the facts and instead resorts to catchphrases like “bipartisanship” and “maverick.”


22 posted on 10/11/2008 1:10:41 PM PDT by DiogenesLaertius
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To: Chet 99; jpsb; cripplecreek; MinorityRepublican; Clintonfatigued; davidosborne; gidget7; ...
"As McCain is an establishment man on illegal aliens, NAFTA and Wall Street bailouts, uneasy with social issues like affirmative action and abortion, he lacks the full panoply of weapons that successful Republicans like Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Bush II used to win two terms. He seems to confine himself to the limited arsenal Gerald Ford, Bush 1 and Bob Dole employed when they went down to defeat."

Excellent piece by Buchanan as usual. And the above quote presents most of this campaign in a nutshell.

23 posted on 10/11/2008 1:10:56 PM PDT by ProCivitas (Pro-Family = Natural Marriage + Fathers' Rights + Pro-Life + Traditional Divorce Standards)
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To: Chet 99

“Yet, even if McCain gets a bit of luck, a dead cat bounce on Wall Street, he must persuade the nation Obama is an unacceptable occupant of the White House if he is to win.”

Well, that’s exactly what McCain doesn’t seem to be willing to do, “I have to tell you. Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don’t have to be scared of as president of the United States”.


24 posted on 10/11/2008 1:12:01 PM PDT by jeepers creepers
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To: Chet 99

Can McCain Still Win?

Yes.

25 posted on 10/11/2008 1:12:15 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: autumnraine
You’re right, it was a group of insurance companies.

No, Aig took some of it's loot and bought a couple of insurance companies, they are subsidiaries. AIG is not and never was an insurance company and has never been licensed in the united states as an insurance company.

26 posted on 10/11/2008 1:12:52 PM PDT by org.whodat ( "the Whipped Dog Party" , what was formally the republicans.)
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To: Jacquerie
Like Huckleberry Finn, I disremember. But it was a hell of a speech and, alas, eerily predictive.


27 posted on 10/11/2008 1:13:25 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: ProCivitas

BINGO.


28 posted on 10/11/2008 1:13:50 PM PDT by org.whodat ( "the Whipped Dog Party" , what was formally the republicans.)
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To: Squantos
Don’t worry be happy !........:o)

I'm actually pretty happy! See me SMILE?! :-)

I just get weary of this gloom and doom sort of junk.

:-)
29 posted on 10/11/2008 1:14:35 PM PDT by hiredhand (Understand the CRA and why we're facing economic collapse - see my about page.)
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To: Chet 99
"Herein lies McCain's hope. The country wants change, but it has not concluded it wants Obama. But if John McCain cannot raise grave doubts about his agenda, his associates, his record, his character, his fitness to be president, Obama is going to win by default."

Sorry Pat, McCain has to show more than throwing the kitchen sink or even the toilet against Obama. The polls indicate that that kind of campaigning has gotten nowhere with independents. No matter how bad Obama is, McCain is regarded as worse.

McCain can still win if he recognizes that Bush's Iraq and economic stewardship have put the country on the wrong track. Voters want a new direction, they are not interested in a change of drivers.

30 posted on 10/11/2008 1:17:49 PM PDT by ex-snook ("But above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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To: Squantos

You know......I believe that also. ;-)

The msm is all about “propaganda’.
When we start singing the same words loud enough and often enough and long enough, maybe some things will change.

Until we condservatives get on the same page.....sadly......it’ll be status quo.


31 posted on 10/11/2008 1:20:58 PM PDT by LadyPilgrim ((Lifted up was He to die; It is finished was His cry; Hallelujah what a Savior!!!!!! ))
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To: hiredhand

A cannibal was walking through the jungle and
came upon a restaurant operated by a fellow cannibal. Feeling somewhat hungry, he sat down and looked over the menu...

Tourist: $5
Broiled Missionary: $10.00
Fried Explorer: $15.00
Baked Democrat or Grilled Republican:
$100.00

The cannibal called the waiter over and asked,...’Why such a price difference for the Politicians?’

The cook replied, ‘Have you ever tried to
clean one?

They’re so full of sh*t, it takes all morning.’


32 posted on 10/11/2008 1:23:32 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Chet 99

Honor is not being the sacrificial lamb for a runaway liberal landslide.

Honor is fighting to stop the liberal landslide...to tell the people exactly who Obama is—it’s not racist to point out this son of a white woman is too liberal...has too many radical friends...and hates America as it is and defeat Barack Obama for the better good of America.

Honor Senator McCain is deciding what war is worth fighting for. This is the only war that matters right now...so fight it with overwhelming power and you will win.

Being timid in his face will mean the defeat of your candidacy and the defeat of America.


33 posted on 10/11/2008 1:24:48 PM PDT by Illinois Rep
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To: Chet 99
Yes he can.

Obama's rising poll numbers are, IMHO, manufactured and represent push polls (for the most part when you look at sampling data) by the MSM to offest the growing concern about his associations and intent.

Obama and his cronies in ACORN, the DNC, and the MSM are wholly corrupt and desperate to steal the election if they cannot win it through intimidation and tomfoolery.

Obama has been directly tied and involved with ACORN, for a long time, and through his instrumentality we are seeing our free market and our voting process subverted and deconstructed before our very eyes.

But there is hope, despite what the push polls are saying, and Obama and his campaign and the MSM all know it, and fear it.






I'M VOTING FOR SARAH

34 posted on 10/11/2008 1:27:53 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: nathanbedford
Reading a transcript of PBJ's '92 speech today, in hindsight I can't believe the GOP disassociated themselves from it.

Buncha poltroons.

35 posted on 10/11/2008 1:28:58 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: LadyPilgrim

Not that I take stock in polls that are always oversampled in favor of..........

The 00 and 04 polls showed AlGore and Scary Kerry in the lead as well.

Middle America WILL vote and the sheeple will believe the polls and stay confident, lazy and away from the ballot box IMO.

Stay safe and VOTE !


36 posted on 10/11/2008 1:30:55 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: ProCivitas
"He seems to confine himself to the limited arsenal Gerald Ford, Bush 1 and Bob Dole employed when they went down to defeat."

And with less than half the enthusiasm as any of the three. And that's the part that bothers me the most. Did he not campaign hard to be the nominee? Did he not claim he was going to fight for us at the convention? I'll have to dig out my Art of War and see if this type of fighting is mentioned. As a stranger in a strange land watching him, it looks to me like his mission was to win the nomination and then lose to 0bama while taking down one of the few rising Republican stars with him.

37 posted on 10/11/2008 1:30:57 PM PDT by GBA
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To: nathanbedford
We might have been able to win in 2008

Are you reporting from the future? In my timezone the election is more than three weeks away.

Contrary to popular opinion. This ain't over.

38 posted on 10/11/2008 1:33:34 PM PDT by AHerald ("Be faithful to God ... do not bother about the ridicule of the foolish." - St. Pio of Pietrelcina)
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To: GBA
it looks to me like his mission was to win the nomination and then lose to 0bama while taking down one of the few rising Republican stars with him.

Point, I was thinking exactly the same thing.

39 posted on 10/11/2008 1:35:06 PM PDT by Current Occupant (IF we can't drill our way out of this, then we will not survive as a NATION!!!!!)
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To: skeeter
Buchanan was fighting for the soul of the Republican Party in 1992 and George Bush won.


40 posted on 10/11/2008 1:35:14 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat attack!" Bull Halsey)
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