McCain Rapid Response

Once again, the McCain campaign’s rapid response team kicks butt. 

1. Bravo! And here’s to rapid production skillz.

   I agree with Barack Obama - McCain is right.

   Posted by Fuzz on September 26, 2008 at 2159 hrs




2. McCain looked old by staying hunched over his lecturn. And why didn’t/couldn’t he look at Obama? I thought they both made points, although McCain mostly talked about Vietnam and Reagan.

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 26, 2008 at 2237 hrs




3. CBS poll - more uncommitteds saw Obama as the winner
   http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/26/politics/horser ace/entry4482028.shtml

   Posted by hope on September 26, 2008 at 2247 hrs




4. I’ve given up on the polls. The “winner” usually depends on who does the polling and the bias in the questions they ask.

   Chris Matthews though did just complain that he was upset that Obama frequently agreed with McCain on certain things.

   But to be honest, I like the fact people can acknowledge that the other side is correct with certain facets of their arguments.  So this didn’t concern me.

   The problem is that I do not believe Obama will govern “in the middle” and acknowledge and reflect other points of view in his decisions.  At least with Bill Clinton you had a guy who had a track record of governing “center-left”.  With Obama you have the #1 rated liberal in the Senate based on his voting record. 

   If Obama were a moderate democrat ala Sam Nunn or even Lieberman, I think he’d be winning this thing handily.  But he’s not.

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 26, 2008 at 2309 hrs




5. I said the same thing during the debate to my wife - he really shouldn’t be telling everyone that McCain is right.

   Obama I think lost points when he kept talking about how much more he was going to spend.

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 27, 2008 at 0000 hrs




6. Obama I think lost points when he kept talking about how much more he was going to spend.

   Yup… Big gamble… Leaves people to wonder if they are gonna fall on the side of the fence that pays for all the promises of something for nothing, or the side of the fence that gets all the something for nothing…

   Success for the democrats in this election (well, in every election actually) seems to depend on bribing their electorate with a promise… and then a belief that they can deliver on that promise… (of something for nothing)

   The great part for freedom lovers like myself is that someday there is a breaking point.  You can’t lie to everyone forever.  And someday you can’t lie to enough people to sell the big lie that they are going to get something for nothing.

   Conservatives have the hardest sell in the world.  Providing people with opportunity and convincing them tha the opportunity to do do more, have more, get more is better than the promise than something for nothing.

   I mean think about it.

   If a guy come up to you and says “I’ll give you a free drink if you run around the block for it” and another guy says “oh brother, you’ve run around enough blocks.  the world has kept you down… elect me and i"ll give you a free drink”

   Who’s gonna get more takers…

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 27, 2008 at 0053 hrs




7. My personal definition of an “independent”

   Someone who CANNOT/WILL NOT make up their own mind because they are in a McDonalds in a different city.

   The menu is the same, but because they are in a different city, they are STUPID enough, to think something MIGHT be different. And the are the MORONS that are ALWAYS. Without fail. In front of me.

   You’ve seen one. You have SEEN THEM ALL!!!!

   WHY PUNISH THE 99.99% OF US BECAUSE YOUR DUMB A** CAN’T MAKE UP THEIR OWN MIND??

   These debates are NOT going to change anyones’ mind so we need them why?

   Posted by Michael J. Cheaney on September 27, 2008 at 0218 hrs




8. Kick butt? Of course your boy Cheap Shot Charley over at TMJ is going ape shit over this nothing production. What a surprise.

   This is a cut and paste ad with canned music ready to go. A ten minute production job at best. Big deal.

   Ask yourself. If we are to believe what Obama had said, then take his credibility is taken away at the end, why would you then believe him about McCain?

   This ad would have been effective if 100 million people hadn’t seen the actual debate, but they all know these “John McCain was right” statements were set ups for smack don points by Obama.

   Further more Obama got positive points from the viewers (even in the Luntz focus group on FOX) vs McCain who looked like he was going to loose it many times.

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 27, 2008 at 0712 hrs




9. This is weird.  The McCain camp think they’ve got something big here, and many commentators picked up on it last night, many before the GOP surrogates even started selling it.

   I didn’t pick it up as a weakness.  In fact I think it was strategic to come across as the less partisan one on Obama’s part.  Once or twice is an accident, eight or nine times is a plan.  Maybe it will prove to hurt Obama, but if I was McCain’s camp I would wonder if it is in my best interest to air a commercial playing up something that Obama seemed to intend to do.

   Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 27, 2008 at 2054 hrs




10. The next time anyone on the Obama side tries to claim that McCain would be Bush’s third term, I wish someone would explain that Obama would be Carter’s second!!

    Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 28, 2008 at 1331 hrs