Fire the Campaign

New York Times ^ | 10/13/08 | William Kristol

[MarkLevinFan]

I just saw Bill Kristol on the FNC this morning saying McCain needs to stop attacking Obama and focus on attracting independent voters. According to Kristol, the ‘Obama attacks’ only appeal to the right-wing, which will be voting for McCain, anyway. Bill Kristol can kiss my “Howard Dean”!

(Oops, looks the the ‘bad word’ filter caught me there...)

[Proudcongal]

McCain must be doing something right, he’s closing the gap in most reliable polls. Or maybe the public just doesn’t want Obama.

[bamahead]

bump

[MarkLevinFan]

I just saw Bill Kristol on the FNC this morning saying McCain needs to stop attacking Obama and focus on attracting independent voters. According to Kristol, the ‘Obama attacks’ only appeal to the right-wing, which will be voting for McCain, anyway.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

I reckon I’m kinda lucky this morning ... can’t see the comments on any given article. Bet this one ends as a Kristol bashing party, totally ignoring that McCain’s campaign has been disorganized and practically useless. Oh, and one or two folks with a couple of pages of links. How am I doing?

[goldstategop]

The problem isn't the campaign. The problem is the candidate. No amount of rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic could save it so neither can shaking up a candidate's campaign save a bad candidate. People have the impression McCain doesn't want to win - or care. In the final debate of the election later this week, McCain can tell the American people why he's in this race at all.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Tennessee Nana]

McCain needs to hotfoot it all the way to the White House...

[Designer]

"HOW LONG CAN THEY IGNORE A MILLION EMAILS??"

About three more weeks.

The insiders are on a roll here folks. They don't need us, and they don't care about us.

Assuming you actually want John McCain to win, you are way too late with this. He has his campaign, and he is not about to receive his marching orders from the likes of you out here in the cheap seats.

McCain is not the candidate you thought he was, and now we see more proof of that.

It's too bad you can't see it.

Get ready for the New World Order. Lord O'bama, and his new country; The People's Socialist Not-a-Republic of the Western Hemisphere.

And all the chains you can wear.

[chickadee]

Taking advice from Bill Kristol is almost as bad as taking advice from Bob Schrum.

Amen to that. Kristol is wrong more than he's right . . . and he panics easily.

McCain's campaign has snatched the spotlight from Obama on two major occasions when O was cruising along thinking it was all his: by launching the Paris Hilton ad on O's return from Europe, and by naming Sarah Palin the day after Obama's Messiah extravaganza in Denver. I think the McCain campaign has more arrows in its quiver. Let them play it out.

[ExSoldier]

He has nothing to lose. His campaign is totally overmatched by Obama’s. The Obama team is well organized, flush with resources, and the candidate and the campaign are in sync. The McCain campaign, once merely problematic, is now close to being out-and-out dysfunctional. Its combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has become toxic. If the race continues over the next three weeks to be a conventional one, McCain is doomed.

Too late. McCain showed me his stripe in one of his campaign rallies last week, sound and video bytes televised. He showed me (and the world) he simply doesn't have the stones to DO what it takes to win. This is a war for the heart and soul of our nation. There is no Marquis de Queensbury here. Politics is a blood sport and it's being played today on a level where the outcome will determine our nation's future. The Dems are saying the same thing and more importantly are ACTING that way in every manner shape and form, including the dirty dealings by surrogates. I don't advocate that, but we at least have to tackle certain issues head on and McCain shut that down hard last week at those rallies. Obama's heritage, family background and personal life have to be a target or we're really toast. There is nothing new in this kind of political tactic. What's new (and disheartening) is his refusal to go there when it's needed to preserve the Republic.

If McCain wins this one, it will be in spite of himself. It will be because the independent voters decided on their own that something either doesn't pass the smell test or they're just plain scared for the lives of themselves and their families over the fears that a weak administration will bring on another 911, perhaps a WMD event. OTOH, the gunowners will have to understand the threat an Obama/Biden ticket presents to their long range freedoms. Heller could be overturned by an ultra antigun court likely to be confirmed in an administration that might offer filibuster proof coattails in the Congress. Don't underestimate the GUN VOTE. They proved their bipartisan clout in our previous elections when Kerry failed to hoodwink the voters and even earlier when Gore literally put the reasons for his loss on the doorstep of the NRA. Gore and Clinton both acknowledged this fact. Personally I think Barry is too arrogant and too stupid to see this one lurking just under the surface and it shows in his remarks to various audiences. The blizzard of ads might not, in fact probably won't have much of an effect on the precise groups they target. Except as an irritant.

[Yo-Yo]

Bill Kristal was on Fox this morning spouting this nonsense.

You wanna give the NObama campaign more ammunition for the “erratic” label? Fire your entire staff three weeks out from the election.

Idiot. (Kryistal, not you, Martina)

[Fishrrman]

It’s not the campaign;
It’s the candidate.

If he wants to win, he’d better fight for it, no-holds-barred.

He’s not doing that. Instead, he’s comforting Americans by telling them that his opponent should not scare them.

The only way Americans aren’t going to elect Obama at this point in time, is to be “scared straight”.

- John

[sofaman]

Kristol hyper-ventilating

[JOLLYDODGER]

Do not buy into the doomsayers, Bill Kristol included, this election has never been about McCain’s campaign advisors. It is about who you are, and what you want to preserve of your freedom. Make a plan now, to get all your friends and family to vote on election day. Period.

We will drag McCain kicking and screaming over the finish line.

[Shelayne]

they’re doing no good anyway

Yeah, that's why McCain is gaining in the polls. Kristol, just shut up. What a bunch of hand-wringing pansies. I am sick of it! I thought conservatives were made of a tougher skin! This is freaking embarrassing!

[TexanToTheCore]

Kristol has lately seemed to become rather reasonable. Now he again has decided to hurt his credibility. What a dork.

[TexanToTheCore]

Kristol has lately seemed to become rather reasonable. Now he again has decided to hurt his credibility. What a dork.

[GerardKempf]

Why not move to Canada while you’re at it Kristol

[Lloyd227]

I rather suspect we'd have a better chance of winning if we were to fire the candidate and let the campaign continue with these very effective ads.

If this weak candidate we have would just shut the F up and let Palin do all the talking, we'd already have a 4 point lead on the cocaine snorting guy with the muzzie sounding name.

[RobRoy]

Just the NYT being the NYT...

This will be a McCain rout.