[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.

[svcw]

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

[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.

[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...

[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.

[DiogenesLaertius]

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.”

[ProCivitas]

"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.

[jeepers creepers]

“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”.

[Mad Dawg]

Can McCain Still Win?

Yes.

[ex-snook]

"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.

[Illinois Rep]

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.

[Jeff Head]

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