Posted on 09/25/2008 4:34:00 AM PDT by steve-b
Slipping in the polls? Concerned that Americans may be paying more attention to the declining economy -- and even supporting economic regulation again -- than to your own stellar leadership abilities?
What's a Republican presidential nominee to do?
If you're named John McCain, the answer became apparent yesterday afternoon -- make the solution to the economic crisis all about you. Suspend your campaign. Pull out of tomorrow's debate -- a trivial exercise merely allowing Americans to judge the two candidates side by side. Change the terms of the nation's economic discussion from the course we should take, and the defects of the laissez-faire model that got us here, to the indispensability of John McCain, leader of leaders....
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Wuck the FaPo...
oh, wait. did I get that backwards?
I think our side is going to get trounced on election day.
Quitters are the LAST thing that Republicans need right now.
And just what side might that be?
Ahhh the WaPo investigators and psychics have come to this conclusion without the gypsies at the N.Y.Slimes. They will all get Puttlitzer’s for their insight......I wonder if Dan Rather had any input
Also, the WaPo the previous day was giving juice to O's stalled campaign, and now the WaPo is PO'ed they were out maneuvered.
I am voting, I am not quitting. But, where do YOU see light, hmm? What makes YOU think otherwise?
Funny
The right side, the good over evil side.
I know that NcCain has hit a raw nerve when the WaPo squeals, like you are doing now.
If John McCain is the only person who can get an agreement, what is wrong with that. It is certainly not "quitting" to take a day or two to fly back to WashDC to help strike a deal.
Obama doesn't even know who he is, much less know what he thinks about this economic calamity which has befallen America.
Obama has to wait until Axelrod and the other handlers tell him what to think.
McCain is demonstrating his unique leadership ability by joining the fray in hopes of crafting a solution.
"Quitting" is a word so not part of this scenario that it makes me wonder about the logic part of your cerebellum.
Ooooh, so giving an opinion is squealing now? I see. So, get in line 100% or kick me to the curb, hmm?
Funny, but you sound just like the democRATS and how they dealt with Joe Leiberman.
Well done.
Basically, tied, with McCain up in some crucial states. If you are a Christan, start praying. We know that God doesn't want pagans running this country, so we can ask with confidence, that it is God's will that Obama not win this election.
Maybe the Republican nominee believes that his current job, which he is elected to do, and has a responsibility to do, is relevent and he has ideas to offer and a job to do. It is not “above his paygrade”.
You need to go back and read my post. It had nothing to do with John McCain “quitting”. I was telling the fellow that I was posting to not to quit!
I don’t care if it is McCain’s strategy or if he really thinks he is the one who can solve this. It was a good way to bring out into the open that Obama is just all talk, it was an excellent way to drive the point home. At the very least of it, Obama could be just a front guy, at the very worst of it, he could be a closet homosexual and be a dangerous Muslim with a hidden agenda which would explain why he can only talk with a teleprompter. I’ve been researching Obama, and he’s scary when you start looking at what is being said about the guy. What ever the case, Obama is a fraud, he isn’t who he claims to be. Plus, I don’t think that McCain is just doing this as pure strategy, I think that this demonstrates that McCain really is a power broker in Washington and knows how to use it.
McCain has always been the one advocating more debates. He should respond by saying let's add a few more debates beyond the three that have been agreed to.
An agreement will be reached in record time just because the democrats don’t want to let McCain gain an advantage. He already has benefitted from his decisiveness, and you can tell that from how loudly the press squeals. I have seen enough this morning to gauge that. Andrea Mitchell is hyperventilating on Morning Joe on MSNBC. This article in the WaPo. Google it and count the stories.
Quitters are the LAST thing that Republicans need right now.
Lots of folks strewing banana peels in front of John McCain this morning on FR are not Republicans (nor even genuine "conservatives," though they will go all jihadi if you even suggest such a thing). I'm not a real Republican anymore partly because of the primary shenanigans, yet I'm supporting McCain in a number of ways, the least of which is simply not poor-mouthing him 24/7. Summer soldiers, sunshine patriots and all that...
Mr. niteowl77
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