Well, you’re definitely right — we knew it was only a matter of time. Definitely a good idea to get out on the air first to make their attacks look foolish.
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p>Given how negative attacks generally work, I would expect that things will tighten up a bit between now and Nov. 4th. But it’s simply too late for the McCain camp to make much of a difference at this point. Recall how long it took McCain to close the gap somewhat a few months ago — it took basically all summer and massive amounts of money. You can’t replicate that in less than 5 weeks.
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p>Additionally, the summer was overall a pretty low-key news period, or at least one in which a single issue or couple issues did not dominate. So trashy, low-blow attacks work well in that environment. In a political environment such as this, when people have become far more intensely sour on the economy and the direction of the country even compared to earlier this year, these attacks just seem petty. That is especially true if the attacks are simply recycled attacks from earlier in the year (Wright, Ayers, Rezko, “celeb”, etc.). If they have something new it could make more of a difference, but I doubt it.
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p>I said it before and I’ll say it again — McCain’s last chance to turn this around are the debates. This next one is McCain’s preferred format, so if Obama survives this one, it’s pretty close to over. Negative slime unfortunately does work in politics, but this environment (and at this period of the campaign) is one in which these attacks just will come across as desperate.
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in Tuesday’s town-hall style debate as he has in the past. After all, the audience is heavily skewed in favor of McCain on the stump. That will not be the case on Tuesday when there will be supporters of both candidates in attendance. I wouldn’t be surprised to see McCain get a little rattled that his usual tried-and-true jokiness doesn’t get him far.
I hope her words put to rest any doubts our side might have about going after her because she is a woman. She has now given us permission to punch back as hard as we would if she were a man, as far as I’m concerned.
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there are a lot of contradictions in McCain’s background.
Thanks to an incredibly biased main stream media, America doesn’t know s–t about this guy.
The American sheeple know more about Palin’s daughter than they do that Obama has more stinky baggage that a Delta Airlines skycap.
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That’s where the thinly-veiled racist conspiracy theories are born and thrive.
Well, you’re definitely right — we knew it was only a matter of time. Definitely a good idea to get out on the air first to make their attacks look foolish.
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p>Given how negative attacks generally work, I would expect that things will tighten up a bit between now and Nov. 4th. But it’s simply too late for the McCain camp to make much of a difference at this point. Recall how long it took McCain to close the gap somewhat a few months ago — it took basically all summer and massive amounts of money. You can’t replicate that in less than 5 weeks.
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p>Additionally, the summer was overall a pretty low-key news period, or at least one in which a single issue or couple issues did not dominate. So trashy, low-blow attacks work well in that environment. In a political environment such as this, when people have become far more intensely sour on the economy and the direction of the country even compared to earlier this year, these attacks just seem petty. That is especially true if the attacks are simply recycled attacks from earlier in the year (Wright, Ayers, Rezko, “celeb”, etc.). If they have something new it could make more of a difference, but I doubt it.
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p>I said it before and I’ll say it again — McCain’s last chance to turn this around are the debates. This next one is McCain’s preferred format, so if Obama survives this one, it’s pretty close to over. Negative slime unfortunately does work in politics, but this environment (and at this period of the campaign) is one in which these attacks just will come across as desperate.
in Tuesday’s town-hall style debate as he has in the past. After all, the audience is heavily skewed in favor of McCain on the stump. That will not be the case on Tuesday when there will be supporters of both candidates in attendance. I wouldn’t be surprised to see McCain get a little rattled that his usual tried-and-true jokiness doesn’t get him far.
“John McCain, your running mate said earlier this week that your opponent ‘pals around with terrorists.’ Do you agree with this statement?”
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p>If that question isn’t asked, I don’t know what should be.
Are digging up David Ayers, feel free to use McCains extreme right wing ties from 1981. Alan Keyes is looking better all the time.
based on her recent comment about Obama “palling around with terrorists”.
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p>Maybe this should not come as a surprise given who was apparently behind vetting Palin for McCain’s VP selection:
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p>http://commentsfromleftfield.c…
I hope her words put to rest any doubts our side might have about going after her because she is a woman. She has now given us permission to punch back as hard as we would if she were a man, as far as I’m concerned.
there are a lot of contradictions in McCain’s background.
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p>http://www.wmsa.net/People/joh…
I hope the campaign sticks with those themes–“erratic” and “out of touch”–from now until November.
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p>This campaign has scored some brilliant attacks against McCain. Without repetition, though, these are just bon mots, flashes in the pan.
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p>He really should have started developing these themes a month ago.
Thanks to an incredibly biased main stream media, America doesn’t know s–t about this guy.
The American sheeple know more about Palin’s daughter than they do that Obama has more stinky baggage that a Delta Airlines skycap.
That’s where the thinly-veiled racist conspiracy theories are born and thrive.