Too many people are in the McCain=Satan tank, that he’s doomed anyways.

lorien1973 on April 9, 2008 at 12:43 PM

Lorien, Actually, it’s McCain’s chickens coming home to roost. McCain made decisions…it’s called cause and effect. I believe he’ll win, but we’re doomed…just not as doomed if Obama wins. Visualizing Michelle in the WH, assures McCain of my vote.

It doesn’t mean the RNC can’t spend as much dough as it wants, just as long as they don’t actively coordinate with the McCain campaign.
They can only spend the dough they can raise. I think the McCain campaign and the RNC are both going to be thoroughly outclassed by the DNC and Obama this cycle.

Of course, I have said more than once I think Hillary will still beat Obama, and that hasn’t happened yet….

cs89 on April 9, 2008 at 5:02 PM

The RNC isn’t as bad off as you may think.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9153.html

Who’s going to run the “Obama is a liar” ads while McCain takes the high road?

There, wasn’t that useful?

TexasJew on April 9, 2008 at 2:20 PM

I guess if you feel better it is.

It doesn’t mean the RNC can’t spend as much dough as it wants, just as long as they don’t actively coordinate with the McCain campaign.

They can only spend the dough they can raise. I think the McCain campaign and the RNC are both going to be thoroughly outclassed by the DNC and Obama this cycle.

Of course, I have said more than once I think Hillary will still beat Obama, and that hasn’t happened yet….

paul006 on April 9, 2008 at 3:58 PM

How dare you?
You have to have sense before you can be beaten senseless.

Obama is a third class lying scumbag, but there is enough stupidity floating around this nation to elect him.
And McCain is just enough of a fool to allow this to happen.

TexasJew on April 9, 2008 at 12:48 PM

I respectfully suggest a negative attitude will not prove very useful.

mikeyboss on April 9, 2008 at 1:23 PM

I respectfully think he, and Rush, are right on the money.

I simply refuse to ‘hope’ for the way I want things to be, rather than see things the way they really are. The problem with the Republican party, is it is now compromising on a lot of core conservative values in the hope that winning trumps our candidate’s stand on issues.

Democrats are the ones who don’t care about the issues, just win on whatever it takes, depending on where you are speaking at the time.

Republicans care about the facts and articulating the issues, and he makes a very valid point that now is passé, and we should rally around the flag. The blame game in the end will point fingers at the very conservatives who questioned his credentials in the first place.

Solution: extract commitments from him at the convention, propose conservative planks, reaffirm and question specifics on immigration. If he insists on being hard headed and wants to pander the left, then he should understand he is no Ronald Reagan. If he wants the money, he better walk the walk. If he doesn’t care, then he obviously thinks the independents and alienated Hillaryites or visa versa will vote for him.

What I want to know is, since I have at least five free email addresses, can I contribute $2,300 on each address? Can I contribute $2,300 times 100 if I have 100 email addresses? I’m a dim bulb in cyber ways, but if it can’t be checked, how is this not just a more innovative, secretive form of “bundling?” Just askin’.

mikeyboss on April 9, 2008 at 1:23 PM

Sometimes a realistic attitude is not “useful”. However, I will accede to your point by saying that McCain is not going to take the fight to the Democrats himself He will lamely try the sure-fire losing techniques of Bob Dole by demanding a “civil debate”, like this was a debating club instead of a knock-down bloody battle for control of our nation’s destiny.

Strong ads against a fraud like BHO will cause McCain to get all self-righteous, like the other day when he said that BHO was “eminently qualified” to become President. What kind of mealy-mouthed crap is that? Well, it’s the sort of mealy-mouthed crap that the Dems will say “even McCain has said that Obama is eminently qualified”, when the Republicans say that he certaainyl isn’t, truthfully and effectively.

Look, I wasn’t stupid enough to vote fror McCain in the Primaries. It was obvious to me how truly gutless he will be in the face of the hideous attacks of the Left. Bob Dole was a war hero too, and fought a hands-off campaign, and he got steamrolled by an actual draft dodger.
The Republican conservative will have to go around McCain to get this won. We will have to go around his crappy unconstitutional McCain-Feingold, we will have to fight his McCain-Kennedy and that traitorous nation-dstroying McCain-Lieberman. But I will vote for him, since it not that POS I will be voting for, but who and what I will be voting against. And still, he will attack conservatives like us who are votiung for him, albeit reluctantly, with a hundred times more passion than he will ever attack the Left.
Who couldn’t hate that SOB while they are forced to vote for him?

There, wasn’t that useful?

“typical politician”

It’s been clear for quite a while that that’s all Obama really is. In a way, it’s reassuring; I would hate to have somebody in the White House who really thinks the way Obama comes off as thinking in his rhetoric.

For him to be able to tell these great, whopping lies and yet still be honest and pure is an overwhelming testimony to his honesty. Imagine just how much extra honesty and purity he must possess to lie like this and yet remain upright and truthful.

29Victor on April 9, 2008 at 12:56 PM

Well said. Believing in change, changing your beliefs, it’s all the same, if you have enough hopeful audacity.

Only a real uniter can successfully blend totally contradictory positions!

The real problem is cynicism.

Did I miss anything important?

I wouldn’t go that far just yet. BO is just screaming in to the libtard echo chamber. And while he’s ahead for the D nomination, he’s yet to dispatch Hillary.

The contrast is coming and it won’t be pretty for BO.

TexasJew on April 9, 2008 at 12:48 PM

I respectfully suggest a negative attitude will not prove very useful.

Would McCain bypass $85M in public financing if he were raising $30 – $40M per month on the Internet?

Hmmmmm. Kemosave think Tonto will need heapem’ big powwow to answer this one……

http://www.armyaunt.johnmccain.com

We have created a parallel public financing system where the American people decide if they want to support a campaign they can get on the Internet and finance it, and they will have as much access and influence over the course and direction of our campaign that has traditionally been reserved for the wealthy and the “powerful,” Obama said.

“Created a parallel public financing system with the Internet….”? So….previously people couldn’t send checks and have their voices heard? This guy doesn’t even lie well.

Republicans upset about private financing of a campaign. Will wonders ever cease? Aren’t republicans against publically financed campaigns?

lorien1973 on April 9, 2008 at 12:27 PM

It’s not so much the principle of public financing as the fact he blatantly broke his promise to accept it.

amerpundit on April 9, 2008 at 12:28 PM

Yes, all true. Hypocritical as stated.

However, a LOT of wry irony in all this, since it is a Republican nominee complaining about a campaign, not taking public taxpayer money, largely run by millions of small donors based on the premise and spirit of the very bill he wrote – ……McCain-Feingold.

What a strange world we live in……

candidate whose money comes from hundreds of thousands of average voters in small donations

Can we have an independent audit of these donations?

“trust but verify”

Obama’s clearly hypocritical. However, I don’t see how McCain can use it against Obama. He’ll just announce the number of contributions and say look at who my special interests are.

freevillage on April 9, 2008 at 12:57 PM

Obama would exactly escape that fight clean. He’s taken donations from oil executives, rich fundraisers, and so-called Billionaire’s Row.