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Fire the Campaign
New York Times ^ | 10/13/08 | William Kristol

Posted on 10/13/2008 1:21:13 AM PDT by MartinaMisc

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To: MartinaMisc

Bill Kristol is the ultimate arm chair QB. He pushes for an invasion of Iraq and then, the moment things got challenging, he starts to squak about how x should have been done better or how he would have preferred to see y done differently. Now, after over a year of telling us what a formidable candidate McCain would be, he tells us that McCain is probably dead in the water anyway.

Mr. Kristol, you simply not have the courage of your convictions.


121 posted on 10/13/2008 7:51:00 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: MartinaMisc

Firing the campaign is stupid at this point. The new strategy of playing up underdog status is a good one. Outside influences are also turning in McCain’s favor. Economy is better today. People are growing suspicious of Hussein. I feel a shift toward McCain.

Carville is running around today saying there hasn’t been a winning GOP ticket without Nixon or a Bush on it since 1928. I’m thinking that factoid could be used in our favor too. This is a GOP ticket unlike any other in our lifetimes.


122 posted on 10/13/2008 7:58:08 AM PDT by ObamaOsamaisaTerrorist
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To: MartinaMisc

Same paper that said we should pull out of Iraq since the war was lost

How the hell does this piece of garbage still exist—They are always wrong and their readers still swallow what they editorialize on


123 posted on 10/13/2008 7:59:58 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: MartinaMisc

Whatever problems exist with the campaign stem from the person at the top of the ticket, not much can be done to change that.


124 posted on 10/13/2008 8:03:34 AM PDT by eclecticEel (men who believe deeply in something, even wrong, usually triumph over men who believe in nothing)
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To: MartinaMisc

Who needs NeoCons!!!

They are almost completely useless to the GOP and are one of the primary factors as to why the GOP is where it is at today.


125 posted on 10/13/2008 8:14:21 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (GOP: If you reward bad behavior all you get is more bad behavior.)
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To: patriot08
I think McCain Palin need to do an Acorn ad comparing what is going on now to what happened in the Nixon Kennedy race. It was proven without a doubt that Nixon lost because of the Chicago mob stuffing the ballot box with votes from dead people. Nixon loved his country and chose not to challenge the vote fraud. The ad should show mobsters stuffing the ballot box, the headlines (if there were any) then todays scene with Acorn, say that Obama gave them over $800,000 a few months ago to “get out the vote” and say it turned out to be an effort to “gin up the vote”. Say that “Obama has promised this radical group, ACORN, that he will bring them to the White House when he is president, to help him define a new agenda for America." Finish it by saying, “Don't let them steal your vote. Don't let them steal this election. Don't let them destroy this great country. Vote McCain Palin”.
126 posted on 10/13/2008 8:15:08 AM PDT by ethical
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To: ComputerGuy

Kristol is still pullin’ for Obama-Yawn


127 posted on 10/13/2008 8:17:33 AM PDT by antisocial (Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
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To: nonkultur

Yeah, let’s fire everyone 3 weeks out and try to be organized going into the election. Yeah, that will work...


128 posted on 10/13/2008 8:25:07 AM PDT by RayBob (If guns kill people, can I blame misspelled words on my keyboard?)
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To: MartinaMisc

Problem isn’t the campaign, its the campaigner! People are more fired up over his VP pick that with him! How the hell do you win with that? It’s his ads and the bloggers that have been fighting for McCain. If he wins it will be the greatest miracle since the 69 Mets!


129 posted on 10/13/2008 8:27:53 AM PDT by Bommer (Who was Obama's diction coach? Bevis or Butthead? Uhhhhhh.....)
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To: MartinaMisc

The McCain team was doing just fine right up to the financial crisis.

I have a feeling the problem is not with the staff - but with the candidate.


130 posted on 10/13/2008 8:33:05 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: patriot08
McCain is losing this campaign because he refuses to fight Obama and his lies

McCain got it backwards.

He should have spent four months over the summer hitting Obama hard with everything, Wright Ayers pro-PLO terror support, hanging with Louis Farrakhan -- the works.

THEN go softer in the last debate or two after Obama is back on his heels.

McCain allowed the media narrative to be cemented that Obama "is just such a nice guy.. a little left of center perhaps, but nothing to fear!!!!"

For being a heroic military man with more courage than I ever displayed, McCain sure went wimpy in this campaign.

131 posted on 10/13/2008 8:38:32 AM PDT by Edit35 (.)
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To: MartinaMisc

More Cheerleading for Obamahhh from Big Media!


132 posted on 10/13/2008 8:48:08 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: patriot08

Nope. Any more feints or sudden moves will only give liberals more ammunition to put in their “erratic” gun and shoot it at McCain in the form of accusations.

In the first place, John McCain IS a decent man who does not want to inflame people (with all the nut jobs out here who will not hesitate to try to do harm to anyone with even half an excuse). The woman (who may have been a Code Pink plant) in the crowd said that Obama is an Arab and she did not trust him. Her appearance was of someone who might just be unbalanced. McCain said, “No Maa’m” (meaning Obama is not an Arab, but ostensibly an American citizen). He knows that if Obama is harmed while he and Palin are using heated rhetoric, HE will be blamed.

Rush, Hannity and others will get the truth out there, and McCain and Palin have already mentioned Ayers several times. Those who want to know these things already know them and are passing them on to others.


133 posted on 10/13/2008 8:52:45 AM PDT by Twinkie (CALL IT WHAT IT IS . . . . COMMUNISM . . . .)
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To: MartinaMisc
Something is wrong with the counter and formatting. It showed 130 replies. First page stops at comment 6, then links at bottom show first 1-50 51-100 101-132 next last

Nothing there. Consider this a test. I tried it in IE7 as well.

134 posted on 10/13/2008 8:55:54 AM PDT by Aliska
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To: nonkultur

Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach. Those who cannot teach, teach PE. Those who cannot teach PE, are talking heads on news shows.


135 posted on 10/13/2008 8:56:45 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (I am not from Vermont. I lived there for four years and that was enough.)
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To: nonkultur

What’s up with Kristol lately? He sounds like the election is already a “done deal”...


136 posted on 10/13/2008 9:02:26 AM PDT by ReeWalker (Darlin', you can put your boots in the oven seven days a week, but it don't mean they're biscuits.)
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To: MartinaMisc

I tried to post before but I don’t think it went through. I think McCain Palin need to do an Acorn ad comparing what is going on now to what happened in the Nixon Kennedy race. It was proven without a doubt that Nixon lost because of the Chicago mob stuffing the ballot box with votes from dead people. Nixon loved his country and chose not to challenge the vote fraud. The ad should show mobsters stuffing the ballot box, the headlines (if there were any) then todays scene with Acorn, say that Obama gave them over $800,000 a few months ago to “get out the vote” and say it turned out to be an effort to “gin up the vote”. Say that “Obama has promised this radical group, ACORN, that he will bring them to the White House when he is president, to help him define a new agenda for America.” Finish it by saying, “Don’t let them steal your vote. Don’t let them steal this election. Don’t let them destroy this great country. Vote McCain Palin”.


137 posted on 10/13/2008 9:04:00 AM PDT by ethical
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To: stocksthatgoup
Taking advice from Bill Kristol is almost as bad as taking advice from Bob Schrum.

I wouldn't listen to this guy anyway, the way he hosted the Oscars was atrocious, and he's a lousy actor, and not even funny, except when he played on Mary Hartman.

(I know, wrong Kristol, but I couldn't resist.)

138 posted on 10/13/2008 9:06:00 AM PDT by webheart (All sarcasm contained in this post is intentional, and does not necessarily reflect a real opinion)
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To: ComputerGuy
I agree with the prime time TV infomercials. Especially for Palin. Not so much for McCain, unless he has something to say to promote our side instead of telling us how swell Obama is.
139 posted on 10/13/2008 9:06:40 AM PDT by webrover
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To: MartinaMisc; M. Espinola; Travis McGee; TigerLikesRooster; Calpernia
Suddenly - - I noticed no new threads posted on FR ! Not since about 1:30 AM today.

Did everybody lose interest ___________ ?

140 posted on 10/13/2008 9:07:41 AM PDT by ex-Texan (Ecclesiastes 5:10 - 20)
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