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Is John McCain throwing the election? (Vanity)

Posted on by TexasGunRunner

Is John McCain deliberately throwing the election?

I am not convinced either way, but there are points to consider:

1) Campagain Suspension - He could have stopped campaigning and returned to DC, but he stopped his entire campaign - hundreds of paid staff and thousand of volunteers were idled. He had no plan when he arrived in DC and said little at the meeting. If it were his dime, maybe, but that was our our donations, and the tax dollars of those foolish enough to check the box on their tax return.

2) Failure to respond to democrat accusations "Republicans are responsible" for sub-prime debacle - He knows the truth, he sponsored legislation to address it. Yet, given two opportunities in the debate, he didn't say anything. Worse, he effectively muzzled Sarah Palin so she couldn't call Biden on it last night. To have the moxie to promise to name names, and then take a pass on naming names for the greatest scandal in the history of the Republic is inexplicable.

3) Failure to respond to defeatist democrats - Again, Barack Obama said twice nobody was talking defeat, and McCain missed an incredible opportunity to hang defeatism around Obama's neck. Sarah Palin couldn't let that one go, she lobbed it back at Biden. This is arguably just McCain debate preparedness or an opportunity that slipped through the cracks.

I'm no fan of McCain. I didn't donate any money to him until he picked Palin.

I'm also not a fan of conspiracy theories (this just involves him though). I am cynical, and I remember very clearly his interview with Michael Reagan in 2000 and who he blamed in 2000.

Is it plausible? Could he really be doing all this just to "get even" with conservatives? It is totally at odds with his pre '78 life and how his friends describe him. Still, how can you join a man who says "fight with me" and then literally stops fighting?

Two weeks ago, he was "beating [Obama] like a drum". Then an issue - government corruption and pork barrel politics - that is right up his alley derailed him. Can it really be that simple: he missed the curve?

You may ask then, why choose Sarah Palin? She clearly ignited the campaign - he was doing as poorly before the Palin pick as he is doing now. Surely he didn't look for the most promising rising conservative star with the malicious intent to taint her (or Bobby Jindal) with defeat? Either one would be constrained by his self-improsed restrictions, undermining who they are and weakening their future chances nationally. That seems too dark, too vengeful, and only Obama is egotistical enough for something like that.

The optimist counter-theory is they are deliberately leading them in...letting them repeatedly attack the Republicans and their philosophy of the best government, governs the least. Maybe they are just waiting for the proper time to spring this on them. That cunning seems very un-McCain also.

I wish I believed that. Unfortunately, it is probably just his senatorial "my learned colleague" style and penchant for viciously attacking Republicans while not sparing praise for democrats.



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Any chance we could get a class action lawsuit against him for donations sent in the expectation he would actually try to win the election? Sarah Palin did an awesome job last night...I wish she hadn't been hamstrung by the McCain handlers, she could have made Biden cry even more!



To: TexasGunRunner

Oh Please! We Don't Need Any More Doom & Gloom Vanities!



To: TexasGunRunner

It seems like Karl Rove saying that the McCain ads were too mean (or negative) has influenced the campaign. And not for the best! I say out with ALL of the Bush advisers!



To: TexasGunRunner



Stop defeatism. Sarah Palin just changed the curse of these elections, once again, last night.

To: TexasGunRunner

You'll get more hits from Campagne and then they may welcome you back to Campagain. I can't spell worth a flip-damn but I can run a spell checker. If you're going to post a vanity... I'm just saying...



by 5 posted onby higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)

To: TexasGunRunner

Hey “concern troll”: Hit the freaking road. This close to the election, we don’t need any more Vanities designed to depress the base. Sheesh.



by 6 posted onby JennysCool (A man who served his country well vs. a walking Che poster. Is it really that tough a choice?)

To: TexasGunRunner

He is the Manchurian Candidate.



To: TexasGunRunner

Yes, it did strike me that the McCain handlers must have firmly warned her not to attack Obama for his role in bringing on the subprime crisis. There were several openings there for her to go for the jugular, and she passed them up—I think because she is being loyal to McCain and his campaign. I don’t think it’s deliberate on McCain’s part. I think maybe he just doesn’t quite understand how “reform” works. In her relatively shorter career, Sarah has managed to throw out quite a number of important pork-guzzlers of both parties, and confront yet work with Big Oil. McCain’s idea of “reform” was McCain-Feingold. I don’t know that he is actually malign. I think he just needs some educating. Meantime, I sure think we need to keep Obama out of the White House, and electing McCain no longer means that we are destroying the party, with Palin in the wings.



To: TexasCajun

Is it just me or does anyone who posts more than one, “McCain has toast! This is legs! OMGONOES!!!11! We’s gonna die!” vanity threads need a high-speed ZOT?



by 9 posted onby OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)

To: TexasGunRunner

If you read some of my earlier posts you will find similar concerns. It is my belief, one not shared by many on FR, that McCain’s victory was defeating the conservatives and the Republican establishment in the primaries. He has done that. Now he has one last thing to clean up, i.e, the destruction of the party and the tainting of one the party’s rise stars. Then he can return the loving arms of his Liberal Democrat friends in the Senate and hope to get his maverick credentials reinstated by the DBM by attacking Repubs and conservative their. It either is that or he is the worst, most incompetent candidate we have ever fielded. Either way it sucks doesn’t it.



To: drzz

Sarah is Fantastic ! Too bad that the top of the ticket is not.I’m not really sure why John decided to run against his friends. This election would already be over if Mitt were on the ticket with Sarah.But it was not to be and unless John decides that he can’t win this by bashing Republicans and playing nice with the Dims ? This race is over Folks.



To: TexasGunRunner

he stopped his entire campaign - hundreds of paid staff and thousand of volunteers were idled. Maybe he thought everyone deserved a break, a chance to go home, etc.



by 12 posted onby syriacus (At the intersection of Congress and Fannie Mae .... you will find the DEMron Scandal.)

To: TexasGunRunner

Egad!



by 13 posted onby svcw (Great selection of gift baskets: http://baskettastic.com/)

To: nralife

I say out with ALL of the Bush advisers! Amen! Out with them all. Let unleash Steve Schmidt and loose the dogs of war!



To: TexasGunRunner

“1) Campagain Suspension” Country first. Sect Paulson begged Lindsey Graham to get McCain to DC to help sway members of Congress, and Sen Reid put the burden on McCain, saying if he didnt support the bill, it would fall apart. McCain did what he thought was right to get this off the dime. In the end, his role was constructive in at least getting the House GOP and their ideas back in the game. Part of the House GOP idea, insurance, and FDIC increases and Mark-to-market suspension, are all in the bill now. And of course the horrible cr*p like ACORN payoffs were taken out. 2) “Failure to respond to democrat accusations “Republicans are responsible” for sub-prime debacle “ That was a trap that would lead him to defend the Bush administration. Obama would love that - McBush. McCain, correctly, has surmised that he will emphasize his maverick go-it-his-way country-first approach. McCain has alrady brought up how he advocated reform of Fannie Mae and Democrats blocked it. 3) “Failure to respond to defeatist democrats - Again, Barack Obama said twice nobody was talking defeat, and McCain missed an incredible opportunity to hang defeatism around Obama’s neck.” Last night Sarah Palin called the Obama plan the ‘white flag of surrender’, and last Friday McCain said that Obama’s plan had it been enacted would have lost the war.

They are making the point that Obama’s policies are dead wrong. I think your comments are off-base. He has had a surprisingly capable campaign. Some misses, but many hits. And John McCain is behind but still in the game. If you want John McCain to win, carry the message that Obama will do all those bad things you speak of to the media - letters to editor etc.



by 15 posted onby WOSG (Change America needs: Dump the Pelosi Democrat Congress!!!)

To: higgmeister

My view on spelling: “It’s a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.”

- Andrew Jackson



by 16 posted onby svcw (Great selection of gift baskets: http://baskettastic.com/)

To: TexasGunRunner; Allegra

I’ve been waiting for the gloom and doom drama queen vanities to rear their ugly heads. At least we had a little respite this morning.



To: OCCASparky

I’m with you.



To: OCCASparky

Please, please please prepare the Viking Kitties for these vanity posts! And unleash their power!!



To: Cicero

“Yes, it did strike me that the McCain handlers must have firmly warned her not to attack Obama for his role in bringing on the subprime crisis.” Someone speculated that maybe McCain is waiting for the bill to pass the House, and then will unleash. That’s possible, because its a (good) campaign strategy of theirs that they go a bit soft first and then unleash the full volley after initial softening up. “Meantime, I sure think we need to keep Obama out of the White House, and electing McCain no longer means that we are destroying the party, with Palin in the wings.” Correct.



by 20 posted onby WOSG (Change America needs: Dump the Pelosi Democrat Congress!!!)

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