Biden has never run anything. Senators don’t. McCain hasn’t either,

Wrong – McCain commanded a navy fighter squadron which is no easy feat.

Why the GOP isnt hammering the Congress with McCain leading the way I have no clue. The independants will switch to McCain if he points out that giving full power to the democrats will badly shift the balance of power and create more instability in the US and weaken indpendants hands.

William Amos on September 16, 2008 at 2:05 PM

Amen, and amen and amen!

And with this latest nonsense drilling mess Pelosi is proposing it should be a no-brainer to utilize the Dem Congress to pound home EVERYTHING going badly. It keeps McCain from totaling bombing Obama/Biden into oblivion for those too tender to take hard hitting politics, but also subconsciously draws THE ONE and THE OTHER ONE into the picture. Where are those quick, snappy to the point ads we saw 3 weeks ago? Who is sleeping at the wheel? Someone send out the Bat signal! This is getting dangerous not to be hitting hard.

While men split 50% to 37% in Palin’s favor, women support Biden 50% to 44%…

Palin & Biden, each one using his or her respective mojo!

(Obama’s mojo? On the wane.)

Why didn’t they have an agreement in place that didn’t allow that ridiculous editing? It wasn’t Palin’s fault – it was the campaign’s fault for trusting ABC.

Right on, right on. Everyone wanted that first Palin interview. It was a total seller’s market. If Gibson wouldn’t approve team McCain’s terms, either Couric or even Brokaw would have. The freakin’ Palin wave was starting to peak and if ridden properly, Team Obama would have been blown away while still paddling out to the lineup…bro.

And as for that Atlantic Monthly cover, where the hell was the lookout on that attack?

Now McCain is doing the chasing instead of creating the news – not good! It all started when he let ABC distort Palin’s interview. Why didn’t they have an agreement in place that didn’t allow that ridiculous editing? It wasn’t Palin’s fault – it was the campaign’s fault for trusting ABC.

Now McCain has to regain the spotlight again, and stop the smearing of Palin before it’s too late to recover. I think he has only one way to do this – McCain and Palin must go on the attack on Energy. Give her the spotlight and let her shine in her area of expertise.

Declare it an economic emergency and tell the country McCain will open ANWAR for drilling. Toss aside the pathetic bi-partisan bill the Senate is working on and declare we will allow offshore drilling everywhere. Go for nuclear, coal, and natural gas developments, and increase research into alternative energies.

Call it a National Emergency to save the US economy, keep billions of dollars home and create thousands of new jobs. Slam Bambi’s energy plans as pie-in-the-sky puff balls. Drill Here – Drill Now – Save Our Economy!

Palin must be the centerpiece of this effort. She needs to recover from the ridiculous amount of crap thrown her way. If this is not stopped now, I think it may be too late. She has the ability to hit this out of the park – please give her that chance Mr McCain.

But my original point stands – McCain does want it and he’ll fight for the election in ways that Bush 41 did not. And Barack Obama isn’t nearly as experienced a politician as Bill Clinton was in 1992, either. That much should be quite clear by now. Obama hasn’t had a single substantive issue to focus on in his campaign, which became quite evident when he gave essentially the same acceptance speech that Dukakis did – a laundry list of the Democratic Hit Parade, unchanged since the 1960s. That was when the gauzy Hope and Change thing went away.

Obama is gaining back disaffected democrats. ITs the independents who are up for grabs now

William Amos on September 16, 2008 at 2:09 PM

Not really. Obama’s numbers aren’t really changing, McCain’s are just going down.

I was hoping for an Obama freefall, a sign that people had finally seen past him. Rats.

Who you callin’ stupid? And last time I checked, 45% isn’t enough to win unless the D’s figure out a way to parachute Ross Perot into the race. Obama can talk about the economy all he wants, but he has no program to make it better. And McCain’s campaign has the wit to point that out.

Mr. D on September 16, 2008 at 2:39 PM

Famous James Carville quote… It’s the economy stupid.

And while a tree wouldn’t win, this is because a tree is an innate object. A majority of the U.S. still want a live person as their president. Hence the 45%.

Also, I think that Republicans spend too much time taking solace in the Ross Perot factor for 1992. Bill Clinton would probably still have won that election as Perot voters would have voted for him. Bush 41 was the status quo.

What are we to make of the fact that nine percent of Democrats apparently have no opinion on Palin versus Biden?

They have not yet been told be their local party leader what to think, or they have not yet received their voting orders in Spanish, or they have not been paid for their vote yet.

lorien1973 on September 16, 2008 at 2:37 PM

I watched the show also. Todd and his friends built that house–a major challenge considering the weather and short, winter-work days.

That fact alone will cause disdain among the metrosexuals at the NYT and WAPO, as they call their apartment handyman to come up and change the AC filter.

A PUMA had said that her group was addressed 5 months ago by McCain and Palin’s name was on the short list when they asked him who his pick may be.
right2bright on September 16, 2008 at 2:44 PM

And yet, some people still think that McCain picked Palin from a random list of people at the last minute to be his VP.

PC14 on September 16, 2008 at 2:35 PM

A PUMA had said that her group was addressed 5 months ago by McCain and Palin’s name was on the short list when they asked him who his pick may be.
The fact is the MSM was too stupid to pick up on it and now they are embarrassed.

[PC14 on September 16, 2008 at 2:35 PM]

I think you are spot on with that. I doubt we’ll have to wait long to get the skinny on it and probably will before his inauguration.

You know what’s funny?
This is a thread about Biden and no one is talking about Biden.
BadgerHawk on September 16, 2008 at 2:25 PM

Ugh. Who wants to talk about plugs?? *shivers down my spine* Let’s talk about Palin beating Biden in the hypothetical poll.

Who you callin’ stupid? And last time I checked, 45% isn’t enough to win unless the D’s figure out a way to parachute Ross Perot into the race. Obama can talk about the economy all he wants, but he has no program to make it better. And McCain’s campaign has the wit to point that out.

PC14 on September 16, 2008 at 2:35 PM

It’s hard to know for sure as someone just looking in from the outside. And some here swear that Captain Amnesty hates all conservatives. I think the truth falls somewhere in between.

PC14 on September 16, 2008 at 2:35 PM

I think Todd Palin, on Greta last night, said he was getting questions for about a month before the pick was made. So I think this had been in the works for quite a while. And McCain was expertly throwing smoke screen out there to hide his pick until the last second.

It’s the economy stupid. If the dems. put a tree on the ballot, it would get 45% in this environment.

Illinidiva on September 16, 2008 at 2:30 PM

Obama is not a tree, he is a shrub. He is simple to green to give voters confidence he can pull the country through a problem.