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For McCain to win this election (which he still can) the furor over the stock market will have to calm down so that popular attention can focus on Barack Obama. For all of the deluge of media that has engulfed the American people, they can only keep one subject on their mind. All media has only one focus at a time. And, if you are in the spotlight, you are almost certain to self-destruct.
Follow this election cycle. Between the summer of 2007 and the end of February of 2008, all focus was on Hillary Clinton’s ups and downs. And Obama defeated her decisively. Then in March and April of 2008, Obama was in the focus and Rev Wright and the surrounding controversy propelled Hillary to victory. Then during the summer of 2008, all eyes were on Obama and he gained. In September, McCain was on the griddle. At first his selection of Sarah Palin let him move ahead. But then his “suspension” of his campaign and subsequent complicity in the bailout package cost him his lead and moved Obama to an advantage just short of double digits.
Now the attention should logically shift to Obama. He is way ahead and McCain is nowhere to be seen. Few give McCain any chance and the debate is over whether the race is over already. This is, of course, the ideal environment for a McCain surge. All attention would normally focus on the Democrat. But it isn’t. Every American checks the market before they check the polls. The ongoing anxiety over the stock market is not only giving more and more people reason to hate the Republicans of Wall Street and their allies in Washington, but it is keeping us from focusing on Obama.
If ever the market stabilizes, Americans will be fascinated by the Ayers-Obama ties and the relationship between Farrakhan and the Democratic nominee. The increasing evidence that ACORN is committing voter fraud, registering people over and over again in anticipation of stuffing the ballot box on election day. As ACORN gets raided by the FBI, it will hurt Obama. He was general counsel to its Illinois affiliate and Obama channeled millions to the radical group when he got control over the money William Ayers got from the Annenberg Foundation.
All of these ties are damning for Obama and will reinforce the doubts that Rev. Wright first put in our minds. They will lead people to question Obama’s values and his fitness for the presidency. A man whose spiritual advisor is Rev Wright, whose financial backer is Rezco, and whose first major employer was William Ayers might not be a good choice for president. But for these associations to loom large enough in our consciousness to impact our vote, the market has to settle down so we can hear the campaign over its din.
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Unfortunately, from John McCain’s recent townhall meeting in Minnesota, he doesn’t have a strong determination to win. He told the crowd that they shouldn’t be scared of a President Obama, or of the justices that a President Obama would appoint to the Supreme Court. This on the very week that activist judges on a new state supreme court (CT) voided traditional marriage. Amazing. Senator McCain appears more concerned about showing the MSM that he is a nice guy than about spelling out the dangers of his opponent.
Dick you still don’t get it do you? Obama is going to be the
President of the United States….all of your strategies have amounted
to an outdated musical …familiar but uninteresting. There is a hand in
this election greater than the evil that has been running this Country.
Face it…Obama is the most gifted politician of our time and this race
, although far from over, will end in an Obama victory.
Of course, I will be back to remind you of this on Nov. 5th, 2008.
McCain needs to expose the real Obama. Obama is a closet socialist. He will increase taxes on small business, nationalize health care, and his statements on profits have morphed from “taxing oil company excess profits” to “taxing excess profits”. The latter will have companies scrambling to get out of the United States. Maybe that is what he wants to justify nationalizing resource companies. Scary? Yup.
Dick, I am appalled
Did you watch F&F this morning?
How in the world can it be that there was NO DEREGULATION and not one republican has said so? Newt, Ann Coulter, O’Reilly not to mention any office holder? John or you?
What the heck is going on?
http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=3126896&referralPlaylistId=search|wallison
No. No. No. Let Morris, the New Media, and the campaign ads reveal Obama’s socialist, anti-american history. Here’s how McCain can make history and take the lead now….
McCain should take the Flat Tax, wrap it around this financial crisis, and punt.
The financial collapse and excessive bailout just may be the perfect storm. A very strong argument could be made that our current tax code created this problem (it did). The Flat Tax would eliminate “the game” being played up top with our tax dollars that got us into this financial bailout hell hole. The Flat Tax is real reform. It’s massive reform. It’s historical reform. That’s the reform we all are looking for on both side of the isle (McCain will love it). It’s the silver lining around this dark cloud we’re in.
This idea would wipe Obama’s lame tax cut for the middle class off the proverbial map…and void all his other lame socialist ideas.
Think about it. It just might wipe clean the ability of the government and business to play games and profit from our tax dollars. How? The Flat Tax uses a one page tax form. No business deductions. Minimal personal deductions. No accountants. No favors. No loopholes. That means little or no IRS (the savings to be contributed to the $700 billion repayment plan). Mr. Politician will have absolutely nothing to “trade” with Mr. Business Executive. Think about it. Think of all the tax law that could be eliminated! Think of the savings! Think of the efficiencies. Is that sunshine I see?
The Flat Tax is the shot of penicillin the USA so badly needs. Spread the idea. Learn more: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Taxes/bg1866.cfm
PS: There are even more advantages to a national sales tax but only after rescinding the 16th amendment. Maybe its time. Could there be a better time?
God help us if Obama wins. The government is already buying up equities in banks with your bailout money. Think!
Upon reflection, Senator McCain seems to be having an internal conflict between his desire to win and his desire to maintain dignnity and decorum in the debate. It may be especially hard for him, since he has been in the Senate for so long, with its traditions of civility, and he is running against a fellow Senator.
McCain is being poorly advised. He can vigorously go after his opponent’s policies without making it a personal attack. It seems like his advisors are telling him he must call Obama a liar to win the election.
Instead, Senator McCain must go vigorously after the nice-sounding “affordable housing” movement that spawned ACORN, Fannie and Freddie. By forgin home mortgages on people who could not afford them, this movement has caused great personal devastation and has almmost toppled our economy. When Senator McCainn tried to reform Fannie and Freddie, Obama and the other Democrats formed a partisan wall to block his reforms.
If Senator McCain wants to win, he needs to get angry at the glib “affordable housing” people who played on middle-class guilt and caused so much damage to this country. Obama has been right of the middle of that since his days as a community organizer. The country is open to a root-cause explanation of our mortgage crisis. Can Senator McCain force himself to concentrate on this long enough to identify the root cause? Does he want to win badly enough to put forth that mental effort?
Weimer: you are absolutely correct. While Obama’s past associations Ayers, Wright and Rezko are problematic given his short history in politics the real issue is as you describe. What is the genesis of the mortgage mess. In short it is what happens with socialist policies. I agree with the goal of getting people in affordable housing but the road to that goal is through creating better paying jobs, ensuring better education and setting up the conditions under which those people can be responsible for their debt. Also, look at Obama’s economic advisor, Rubin, a guy who spent 25 years at Goldman Sachs.
In addition though, I think there is an opportunity for McCain to own up to the Republican role. McCain should be as honest about the Bush Administration lack of oversight of the financial institutions as he was about the Rumsfeld bunging in Iraq, The democrats may have built and lit the mortgage fire but the Bushies watched and ignored the flames. Brings to mind the image of a guy in a Roman robe playing a fiddle.
I think Dick is missing one of the essential elements of the McCain meltdown: his move towards milking the Ayers connection created a backlash against bigotry and extremism. This, more than Wall Street, is why he is losing in the polls.
Being American, at its heart, means loving freedom (including religious freedom), minority rights, tolerence, etc. It’s not just about sabor rattling and war heroes. There are 12,000 brave Muslim men and women serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. Several of those have won purple hearts and other service medals. There are 2M Muslims who are American Citizens. McCain’s response to that women at his rally who said she fears Obama because he is an Arab was downright cowardly. He should have said, “not only is Obama neither an Arab nor a Muslim, but lumping all Muslims together as enemies of the state is for ignorant bigots, not patriotic Americans.” I am sure that McCain has served with some patriotic American Muslims. If he had stood up for tolerance and regligious freedom he would have scored major points with Indy voters who have been repulsed by some of the evident bigotry, ignorance, and jingoism at Republican rallies. Recall the 1992 Republican convention and the response. McCain-Palin 2008 has been 10x worse. As Hillary found out in the primaries, raising Wright and Ayers helped solidify a group of voters who were already voting against Obama, but it gave Indy voters a reason to run away from the fear/hate towards Obama and his message of hope.
McCain was indignant when compared to Wallace last week. Frankly that was a mild comparison. Listening to Palin’s rallies and some of the YouTube videos of bigots in the crowd, one could have made a comparison to McCarthy or even Nazism’s early days. Calling out certain religions, stoking racial hatred, hinting that Obama is a terrorist, how is this different from Hitler scapegoating of the Jews?
I am sure that only a small percentage of McCain supporters are actually racists or wackoes, however his strategy of intimating to voters that Obama is a Muslim Terrorist will end up costing McCain the election. I am very surprised that Morris is still advocating the use of this strategy, not only because it is morally repugnant, but more importantly for a politico - because it is political suicide.
The Ayers and Wright have been overplayed and these issues are overshadowed by the economical crisis……continual beating of a dead horse will not make the horse more dead…voters want answers that effect them today……not what has pasted.
With Obama’s connections and theories..we need to question if he is actually a terrorist with the intention of using his position to hurt the United States. He has accomplished nothing in the Senate and wants to hurt democracy with his socialist ideas. Why his connections to Ayers, ACORN and others don’t scare people, amazes me. Obama is not gifted unless he has a prepared speech that he can read and recite. What has he done to present himself as gifted, other than as an orator? Nothing.