While it’s true Romney might well be a help with all that’s going on, don’t you think that Obama would have already run about a thousand “Romney hates McCain” ads by now? I think Palin was still a stimulating (to the base) novel choice, allowing JMac a lot more latitude with the indies, that Romney could never have provided.

marybel on September 19, 2008 at 6:30 PM

Obama has not run those ads. He would be suicidal to explain Romney here.

Romney won huge in the primaries. He was the guy I heard union hardhats talk about, that Romney would bring the jobs back. He is not an unknown, and with unemployment here at 10 percent statewide, and way higher in the SE jobs are the only issue.

I still cherish the great moment when McCain made a remark that those jobs are never coming back. Reporters ran to Romney who calmly and quietly stated “of course they can come back’

The DEMs could run a hundred ads showing McCain and Romney fighting. It would take Romney about 10 seconds to demolish those ads. He has a presence, and a confidence that Michigan craves.

It is desperate here folks. You cannot know what I am seeing. People going without food to put gas in broken cars to get to jobs cut to 20 hrs a week. It aint funny. People here are terrified. I am seeing a type of poverty I have never seen before. People still getting unemployment but wearing shoes worn into rags. Fast food business is dwindling. A local Coca Cola distributor talking about falling sales in Michigan said it was not less beverage consumed, but less people in the State to consume. As the mortgages default people are finally free to move

You wont see this in Canton, Bloonfield or Ann Arbor but you see it everyday in Taylor

Romney can turn around anything thrown at him from the primaries he is that trusted. You see, Romney believes what he says and that separates him from Obama.

Remember Roosevelt, “You have nothing to fear but fear itself”. That is the sound off Romney talking in Michigan

in so much as jobs have gone anywhere, they have gone to states without union dominated governments.–Count

Other than sunbelt “states” where illegal aliens abound and “right to work” legislation prevents union potency (pros/cons), such governed locales include Mexico and even further to the Middle East, India and Turkey as auto makers. Japan is unique in Asian homogeneity and manages its own system. China & Korea have their own asian-power-player monopoly on industrial organization based upon accepting Chinese domination even as communism vents a new fascist experiment within Asia. India is uniquely situated as a most civilized example in Asia-minor with ties to the West. Sadly, Africa, with all of its resources including huge populations, remains the least capable of self control.

Yes. These are blatant generalities. But such observations are based upon specific production and outcome of labor efforts that make the news for consideration over my recent decades as well as knowing my American history from familial perspectives of educators, agrarians, skilled tradesmen and legal minds.

I am certain that Steve Diamond’s Labor/Union blog would illuminate where I be right and wrong.

Message discipline 101:

Exit question:

Precision guided missiles.
Buckshot.

?

Definitely, a single fatal blow normally does the job. But we’re up against the undead. Buckshot won’t take down these multiple targets. So the precision guided missiles better be silver plated. Either that, or repeated daily.

-your unemployment rate is currently 6.1%, the highest since 2003. It has increased 1.4% in the past 12 months
-Subprime disaster
-Wall Street disaster
-National debt spiraling upward
-Housing starts at their lowest since the early 90′s -Inflation doubled in the past 2 years
-Dollar falling against the Euro
-Industrial production in decline for the past 4 years

YEAH! EVERYTHING IS AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING!

Not many cars and trucks are made in Mexico. Those jobs have gone to Japan and Korea and Taiwan and even Australia and China. High gas prices and higher CAFE mileage standards forced by Democrats make truck sales tank.

Michigan has a Democrat governor whose economic and tax policies have produced a one-state recession. Obama would send it into a full scale depression.

rockmom on September 19, 2008 at 6:20 PM

Actually, in so much as jobs have gone anywhere, they have gone to states without union dominated governments.

Actually, I’m a bit unfamiliar with laws about unions. Is it true that your coworkers could vote in a union, forcing you to join it or loose your job? That has got to be unconstitutional.

Are people to believe that all the economic woes of the past 8 years

what country are you living in? economic woes, oh please, the last 8 years have been pretty good, low unemployment, steady growth..what do you want?

people know the Dems have blocked drilling for decades. people know the dems want higher taxes, and more gov spending, oh yeah thats a real recipe for economic growth…sure try econ 101

Are people to believe that all the economic woes of the past 8 years have come about exclusively from the actions of the Dem controlled congress in under 2? Republicans get a pass? Amazing!

Message discipline 101: If you’re going to drop five ads in a day, they probably shouldn’t be on five different subjects.

The approach that McCain took is great. They will have BHO and his team running around in circles trying to refute, counter, or bury each of these subjects. Considering the “proven skill” that BHO has demonstrated at responding to ads, the BHO counters will likely offer even more fodder for the next run of ads.

In other words this approach is McCain giving BHO lessons on cat herding.

Let’s roll!

Something tells me that McCain is not as clueless as some make him out to be.

wise_man on September 19, 2008 at 8:00 PM

Agreed.
I think McCain has a very very good campaign management team. They actually see the big picture here. I see the guilt by association ads really sucking the money out of the Obama campaign when they try to react. McCain’s campaign has not been very reactionary they’ve recently gone on the offense and its going to play really well if they continue drumming him hard. But if he doesn’t respond they will have to hold back to pummel him in the last few weeks.

McCain could very well be kicking himself for not selecting Romney as his VP. Romney would be hammering Biden and Obama right now on taxes, job creation, lack of any experience in the private sector, and the Dems ties to Fannie May and Freddie Mac. And he would do it with such confidence and conviction and detail that Obama would be on the defensive between now and election day.

joncoltonis on September 19, 2008 at 6:09 PM

How can McCain and Romney know the pain the average American feels when they own about 1500 houses and are worth millions?

That attack would be repeated ad nauseam.

very good stuff

Obama is working mighty hard in PA on that jobs overseas angle in order to frighten those bitterly clinging to their guns and Bibles. To rebut this nonsense, McCain’s team needs to tailor a similar ad for PA.

Obama does not have an economic plan. His “ideas” seem to evolve with developments in the news cycle or to envision some Utopia of top-down socialistic bliss.

McCain, however, in a stump speech today laid out some very specific ideas on the economy and how his plan affects Americans alarmed at the apparent financial meltdown and worried about their own pocketbook issues. The speech is linked here.

Something tells me that McCain is not as clueless as some make him out to be.

wise_man on September 19, 2008 at 8:00 PM

I might have to open that pocket book one more time.

I’ll do it on a credit card, so when the banks collapse, I won’t have to pay it back anyways! LOL

The tactic is to drain the Obama Treasury before the crucial weeks of the Campaign.
theguardianii on September 19, 2008 at 7:50 PM

Something tells me that McCain is not as clueless as some make him out to be.

If you’re going to drop five ads in a day, they probably shouldn’t be on five different subjects.

Why not? This is a rather bold tactic on the part of McCain’s Campaign. They are running several ads against Obama all at once forcing his hand to respond. If he doesn’t respond he faces the possibility of the truth being out there. If he does respond he has to spend money. Alot of money especially since TV advertising isn’t cheap.

The tactic is to drain the Obama Treasury before the crucial weeks of the Campaign. It is a gamble that McCain is taking as it is possible that Obama could have a much better fundraising month. But if Obama’s burn rate exceeds his replenishment McCain can better control the message the last few weeks.