Can McCain Still Win?

Human Events ^ | Patrick J. Buchanan

[org.whodat]

The nation's largest savings and loan, Washington Mutual, and largest insurance company, AIG, have gone belly up,

The house of fraud, AIG was not and never was an insurance company.

[SumProVita]

Actually....I honestly believe that, at his point, if all true conservatives prayed and fasted for it...McCain would INDEED win.

[Kackikat]

Tell that idiot that God will decide this election, and who is going to be elected....as for all that other crap...give me a break.

[jokyfo]

Once the markets settle out McCain will rise. Keep speading the optimism. This is a 4-5 point race right now, three weeks is a lifetime.

[nathanbedford]

We might have been able to win in 2008 if we had listened to Pat Buchanan when he made his brilliant speech at the convention in 1992 and declared that America was in a cultural war.

We turned a deaf ear because was not politically correct about Israel. Pat has been right about an awful lot of things which we have dismissed to our sorrow.

[Cheryllynn]

Without the fraud? Yes.

[svcw]

Of course. If JM never opens his mouth again and lets Palin do all the campaigning.

[wagglebee]

Once the markets settle out McCain will rise. Keep speading the optimism. This is a 4-5 point race right now, three weeks is a lifetime.

Exactly, this is like being down by a field goal at the end of the first quarter.

[hiredhand]

I can't take this crap anymore. First, we take mountains of shit for telling everybody that we'll vote independent on account of McCain being a best of the worst (and would have done it too!), and then (for whatever reason) he chooses Gov. Sarah Palin as his VP. Then we all decide to vote for her and hold our nose and vote for him, and now messages like this one (no offense meant to you "chet 99"!) keep stacking up around here.

I'm not going to be here much until after the election.

I'll leave (for awhile) with saying that John McCain should be very grateful to Gov. Sarah Palin because she's the only reason we're voting for his sorry ass!

The D.U. must read threads like this and laugh at us.

[RC2]

I have no doubt that McCain can still win. If all conservatives get together and some others from other parties start to see who Obama really is.....sure he can win. Hey.....we may get mad at McCain from time to time but that’s no reason to let Obama walk away with this thing.

[kbennkc]

Perhaps it comes down to what McCain really thinks about an Obama presidency, and how he wants to be remembered by history.

This reasoning would explain why Mav said people need not fear an Obambi presidency .

[Natchez Hawk]

Once again Pat’s analysis is stellar.

[The Great RJ]

If this financial mess hadn't hit McCain would have a comfortable lead and likely a landslide victory. Now Obama’s mantra of change is suckering in voters who are mad about Washington. Do you vote for the old guy or the young dynamic guy promising change? Unless McCain can convince the voters that Obama is not trustworthy he will lose the election. It will take more than the bland boring performance at the last debate to do that.

[Mr Rogers]

In my dream last night, Biden stepped down from the ticket...and was replaced by McCain, leaving Palin to run for President.

It was a sweet dream while it lasted.

McCain COULD win, if he would tie this mess around Obama’s neck, point out that Obama’s spending will require taxes and drag the economy down even further, and that Obama seems to associate with nothing BUT anti-American haters.

I’m thinking the odds are against us, my friend...

[tips up]

McCain supporters I talk to are all pessimistic.

The Dems are stealing the election through ACORN and most voters have no idea what an Obama presidency would mean.

Oh well...

[autumnraine]

You’re right, it was a group of insurance companies.

[Jacquerie]

Yeah, wasn’t that when he declared that the “barbarians were at the gate”?

[org.whodat]

Actually you are mostly correct, the old man needs to start saying how many and who he will put in jail for this mess, ceo’s and politicians.

[jonrick46]

An Obama presidency would sink the economy even further. He has played in the Marxist sandbox too long, and does not understand the free market system.

McCain needs to define the problem in free market terms and propose solutions best for the free market. He has to assure Americans that his plan for a solution is the only one for America.