For all the Monday morning quarterback campaign strategists that have been pissing and moaning so much, you may want to read this:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/what_if_mccain_knows_what_hes.html

Good stuff….I hope he knows what he’s talking about.

Let’s roll!

Except for the fact that McCain is also an open borders, treasonous scumbag.

You pundits have no one to blame but yourselves for losing this election. You did not support conservative candidates, so now you reap what you sow.

Stop your whining, because I told you so. You are the ones responsible. Keep playing ostrich with the immigration issue, since it suits your globalist neo-con candidate who is not going to win the presidency.

1. William Ayers and his radical past
2. Fannie Mae collapse and Democratic responsibility
3. Foreign policy
4. Tax-and-spend liberal
5. Chicago politician, not reformer

Okay, I’ll bite on 2, 4, and 5.

Address Obama as “my opponent” (this always pisses the off the clubby Senate types – besides if asked you can say “he apparently has a problem with his name” – a double dig!!!).

On Fannie/Freddy (#2 and #4) :

If my opponent was so concerned with oversight at Fannie/Freddy and the stability of mortgage backed derivatives why did/does he propose over 1 trillion dollars in new spending during the primaries? (this gets Obama into a corner – he says he no longer opposes tax cuts and plans to delay additional spending during the current economic crisis – this is an apparent acknowledgement of supply side economics).

#5 Fact: It is safer to be a young person in Iraq, than to be a young person in your “hometown” Chicago, the City can’t balance its budget, but it can find time to author a ban on text messaging, and the second straight sitting governor of Illinois may be indicted for fraud in connection with his dealings with your business partner Tony Rezko.

Are Chicago and Illinois models for how our federal government should operate or symptoms of corruption that can undermine the integrity of all levels of government?

How are you going to clean up Washington, if you have so clearly failed to clean up Chicago or Illinois state politics?

Senator McCain, “your opponent” is all teed up. Hit him hard and often.

Your opponent is not a new politician, but an old liberal in a young person’s body.

How McCain can make this point, in two minutes or less:

“A lot of you might be wondering how so many banks failed so quickly, and you might have heard my opponent blaming it on deregulation and President Bush. In fact, the deregulation was signed by President Clinton in 1999, and Fannie Mae chief Harold Raines was encouraged by Democrats in Congress to make risky loans to people who couldn’t afford them, backed by taxpayer money. By the way, Harold Raines made $90 million in the process, and is an advisor to the Obama campaign. In 2005, I foresaw the present problems, and with my Republican colleagues introduced legislation to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and prevent them from making risky loans. Every Republican on the Senate banking committee voted for my bill, every Democrat voted against it, and the Democrats filibustered it in the Senate. So Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continued to make risky loans, which other banks bought and thought they were safe because of government backing. When people started defaulting on these loans, the Government had to buy them out. While Fannie Mae was going broke, they gave more money to Barack Obama than any other Senator in the past four years. I ask you, fellow Americans, do you want a President who had the foresight to try to fix this problem three years ago, or do you want the fox guarding the henhouse?”

Hopefully, McCain will get a question on this from the “townhall” questioners, and express it better than I just did.

2 years isn’t that long to wait to retake the house and senate….

You and McCain camp are missing things. McCain should attack congress and politics, the good old boy network. it was the good old boy network that caused fannie and freddi, it was the good old boy network that Obama used with Ayers, it is the mistaken belief that gov is the solution that destroys the tax and spend side. What better example of a good old boy network than chicago? He can attack the ruling elite because they have failed. Obama is part of that ruling elite because he never fought them. The reform message will work if done right. Not just earmarks but drilling, deregulation for friends and people of power, monoplies, lack of anti-trust,

90% of the people think the system is broken. McCain must attack the system. The system brought us fannie and freddie, wall street greed, lose of jobs to offshore, lower standard of living.

the people want change because they think the system is broken and stacked against everyone but the elites. McCain must tie his reform message to the economic troubles, to liberlism. that over the last decade the government has become by, for and of the corporations.

CapedConservative on October 7, 2008 at 12:50 PM

I agree. Pretty close to 80% of what I’ve been thinking he should do, he is now doing. It’s not that I’m psychic but rather observant. Watching the direction he is going it seems there are limited tacks he can take. I simply pick the tack that seems the most logical. His advisers are miles ahead of most of us, but if we observe closely, we can get pretty close.

Someone posted an acronym the other day that referred to observing, planning, and action. I forget the exact wording, but it made a lot of sense.

McCain needs to say the following: The Republican concept of government is to keep it small and efficient. President Bush did not make good use of his veto pen. I have promised to put a freeze on most all agency spending and I have promised to use my veto pen to curtail spending. When government grows, it becomes unwieldy and less transparent. It is this lack of transparency that allowed the Fannie & Freddie crisis to occur. The American people could not see clearly what was going on.

Now, Senator Obama wants to grow the size and scope of the federal government by adding national healthcare, universal preK, and other such programs. I will say that again. He wants to expand the size of the government, making it even less transparent. If Fannie & Freddie blew up because there was not enough oversight and regulation, which I asked for, then what do you think will happen if healthcare and preschool education become government-controlled programs? The very same thing, folks!

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/what_if_mccain_knows_what_hes.html

CC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KNBYgx4-Ao

http://cann0nba11.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/obama-ten/

http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2008/10/fannie-mae-whos-your-daddy.html

The Anderson Cooper attention to Ayers may be the start of some balance in part of the MSM. I mean, MSNBC remains the lead Obama shill, and die hard O-bots are probably not tuning in anywhere but there, ’cause the Koolaid’s soooooo good.

So if CNN wants to increase it’s numbers, it’s got to look at Obama a little more critically. Cycling through a variety of weak points gives reporters cover to call it something new. Unless you tune in to Fox News, Rush, Hannity and the like, it may be the first time you’ve heard about a lot of this stuff.

I saw The One in another commercial that I’m sure is pretty effective last night. With no music or other background, He talks about how we’ve seen in the last 8 years that giving tax breaks to the top doesn’t trickle down but how pain trickles up to “you.” It doesn’t matter how wrong what He says is, what matters is that people hear it.

I’d like to see McCain and Palin combine in a series of messages featuring the Governor speaking plainly about an issue and then the Senator speaking plainly but strongly about why he approves the message. No background music to distract from the message when either speaks, though a sound effect segue (such as a gavel) between them might work — I’d have to hear it. 5 seconds or so could be devoted to Obama’s position. Not just “I approve this message” but “I approve this message because Gov. Palin is right. . . .” The Governor could point out the Ayers/Wright issues in 15 seconds and then McCain could drum home how important character is. She could give a 15-20 second talk on energy and McCain could approve that because exploring all avenues are vital to becoming energy independent, contrasting Obama’s stance.

For a snapshot of how Obama’s going to change WASHINGTON, one only needs
to look at what he has done in CHICAGO. Illinois is where Obama has been
doing the great majority of his work. His entire political career has
been focused on improving local conditions… state legislator, and now
US Senator for Illinois.

Illinois state pension fund is $44 billion IN DEBT (worst in the country).

Cook county (Chicago) has the HIGHEST sales tax (10.25%) in the country.

Chicago school system one of the worst in country.

Body count for last six months = 292 murdered in Chicago alone
(Only 221 killed in the war in Iraq… THERE’S MORE DEATH IN CHICAGO!!)

Chicago is a combat zone. Of course, they’re all blaming each other.
Can’t blame the Republicans, there aren’t any in power!

The entire gov’t leadership is ALL DEMOCRAT:
Senators Barack Obama & Dick Durbin
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
Gov. Rod Blogojevich
House leader Mike Madigan
Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike)
Mayor Richard M. Daley (son of former Mayor Richard J. Daley)

This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois.
And this is how he intends to CHANGE Washington politics?

Though Obama purports to be a Christian, he doesn’t understand that it’s not government’s role to do God’s work.

BuckeyeSam on October 7, 2008 at 10:30 AM

AMEN!!! Preach it brother!

Jeez. If I were McCain, I wouldn’t know what to think.

1. HA bloggers scream “Go after Ayers!”
2. McCain does.
3. HA bloggers scream “No! I said go after the Dems and Freddie and Fanny!”
4. McCain does.
5. HA bloggers scream “WTF is wrong with you? Go after the economy! Jeez McCain is stupid!”

fossten on October 7, 2008 at 11:54 AM

6. McCain ignores the ground noise and the static, even from his own side.

I like the idea of McCain calling for a special prosecutor. Not a commission, a prosecutor. And no immunity for Congress.

rockmom on October 7, 2008 at 11:46 AM

I’m intrigued by your idea, and also by the one repeated by someone above, that McCain call for Dodd and Frank to resign. The latter really would turn the election into nuclear war toe-to-toe, Rs vs Ds, outcome very uncertain. Your idea sounds a little better, but also dangerous. Special prosecutors can do a lot of harm – when we get behind the idea, we give the other side a lot of ugly ideas.

I do think we agree that, if it’s at all possible, McCain needs to call on his entire life’s experience in a way to ride a wave of popular revulsion. If he could catch that wave, 6 points or 16 points down in the polls could disappear overnight. But it may be beyond him or anyone to engineer and control such a strategy. He’s got a better chance than you or I to lead an enraged populace, and his character fits the role better than Obama’s, but the behavior of mobs is unpredictable.

The other alternative is to fight Obama on the economy frontally – negatively via FM&FM and tax-and-spend, and positively via accountability, growth, energy, etc. – while using Obama’s vomit-inducing associations, social extremism, and dissembling to win the undecided and weakly committed voters in the last week.