Are McCain's campaign staffers retarded?

[Manedwolf]

I can't get over the absolute lack of any coherent message. There is SO MUCH they could be pushing and showing!

The fact that Dems go NO to every energy solution. The fact that they have no solution. The fact that even though they say "Well, drilling now wouldn't help for ten years", that they said that ten year AGO. That they say NO to nuclear, say NO to drilling in the upper Midwest, they even (Kennedy!) say NO to windfarms off Nantucket.

The Dems are the party of NO, NO solutions, just NO. Obama is right on top of that, with nothing but NO.

Why are McCain's people not getting that out? That Obama and company can only promise candy-and-rainbow "someday" dream solutions of electric cars that sound right out of Carter's playbook, that they have no NOW solution, just NO?

Why can't they push this home? Why can't they get that message out? Who are these people, and why are they just muddling with nuance instead of just proclaiming basic realities?

[Balog]

If the Republican party was competent we wouldn't be stuck with McCain in the first place.

[El Tejon]

If the Republican Party were competent, it would have to give up the moniker the "Stupid Party".

[Waitone]

Seems McCain wanted to do the election on the cheap.  He left his message to 11 regional campaign directors.  No surprise there was no message.  He's appointed a Czar now. 

[agricola]

Be patient Manedwolf, I am sure that will happen closer to the election.  There is no point in exploding all Obama's policies now, he will just invent new ones in plenty of time for November - best get him locked into them first.  They may even be relying on your citizens not being stupid.

[nico]

They may even be relying on your citizens not being stupid.

I hope you're wrong.  Anybody with half a brain should know better than to think like that.

[wmenorr67]

Anyone else see the connection here?

Dems say NO, NO is short for New Orleans......coincedence?

[longeyes]

Perhaps McCain is playing possum.

Or maybe he isn't playing.

Maybe we need to ask David Rockefeller.  This Election--the scenario of it--is his idea after all.  Or did he hand the baton to George Soros when I wasn't looking?

[LAK]

Who are these people, and why are they just muddling with nuance instead of just proclaiming basic realities?

Now that's a logical, rational question.

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[Standing Wolf]

The Republican party hasn't stood for anything since 1994. To expect one of the old stalwarts of spinelessness suddenly to stand up and take positions would be like putting off going to the filling station until the cost of gasoline goes back down to $.39 per gallon.

[Waitone]

Why should McCain drop all his cookies now?  Seems O'Bama is doing just fine defining himself with little help from his opposition.  Every week a new acquaintance surfaces having by now a predictable background.  He's setting new records in flip-flops.  Virtually every pronouncement is warmed over marxism.  We make fun of McCain being a throw back to a bygone era.  O'Bama is pretty much warmed over also.  I swear this guy is a time traveler from the 1960's.

[longeyes]

There may have been a time when the fact that the Emperor was naked was enough to embarrass him into ignominious defeat.

But naked is now quite acceptable, at least to 51 per cent of America.

Isn't that the problem?

It is not enough for McCain to assume he's got the right stuff and doesn't need to keep underscoring how and why or to keep jabbing Obama into political punchiness.  Obama's image will have to be shattered, and that will take aggressiveness.

[longeyes]

If McCain is really the warrior he says he is, he will show that.  I hope he realizes he is in a war, not just against forces outside this nation but inside too, and a war that will determine the survival of this Republic.  So far he hasn't shown me that he has the killer instinct to deal with the gravity of the challenges we are really facing at this moment in our history.  I am hearing too much about "respectfulness" and too much about "greening;" whether this is because McCain serves higher masters (the same powers and principalities that govern the Bush dynasty) or just listens too much to Cindy, I don't know.  I do know he won't beat Obama unless he can, gasp, demonize the demon.

[HankB]

If McCain isn't trying to throw the election, answer this: Why has he been running around in South America & Mexico during the past week, instead of campaigning where VOTERS could see and hear him?

[longeyes]

Maybe because like Bush before him he was bought by Mexico a long time ago?

On the other hand he could just be reconnoitering "God's children?"

McCain is an enigma.  Something "missing" there, something "off."

[LAK]

McCain is not going to do anything about two of the greatest threats to this country; the U.N., and the emerging North American Union. Perhaps even a Union of the Americas. Perhaps that is why he is has been "touring" Mexico and S. America.

[MicroBalrog]

McCain is not going to do anything about two of the greatest threats to this country; the U.N., and the emerging North American Union. Perhaps even a Union of the Americas. Perhaps that is why he is has been "touring" Mexico and S. America.

Tinfoilhatter!

Tinfoilhatter!

There is no threat posed by the United Nations! There is no North American Union plan! Nothing is wrong!

[wmenorr67]

Your right Micro it is the One World Order.

[seeker_two]

If McCain is really the warrior he says he is, he will show that. 

He has YET to show that in his political career.....he'll throw in with whatever the popular Democrats and liberal Republicans are doing at the time, but claim to be a "maverick".

McCain is just another Bob Dole.....but without the Viagra..... 

[MrRezister]

I think McCain should just go all out and declare that if he becomes President he will make sure that calling someone a Democrat will be classified as "Hate Speech".  It's the only way he can draw in those pesky independent voters, and a great way to reach across that aisle, making him all the more lovable to both sides.

[longeyes]

It may be the Zeitgeist is behind Barack Obama, that he is simply the vehicle of forty-plus years of accumulating social and moral chaos in this nation, but the least we should expect from McCain is that he fight the good fight and go down honorably in defense of the right principles.

I'm not seeing that.  Obama should be called out, hard, on so many things, but instead McCain hangs back, neither attacking Obama hard enough where he's vulnerable nor presenting a clear, compelling set of policies for the voters who have built and will sustain this nation.  He might start with tax policies that preserve the American middle class and aid, especially, the small business owner.  Taxes need to be lowered across the board.  Savings and investing need to be encouraged--drop the inheritance tax altogether, eliminate capital gains taxes and double taxation on dividends.  Privatize, in whole or in part, Social Security.  If you want to help families, help the productive individual first.

McCain's campaign should be about energy, but about American energy, not just drilling.   If he tries to come off as Obama's older white cousin, he's a sure loser.

[Manedwolf]

I'm not seeing that.  Obama should be called out, hard, on so many things, but instead McCain hangs back, neither attacking Obama hard enough where he's vulnerable nor presenting a clear, compelling set of policies for the voters who have built and will sustain this nation.

That infuriates me in interviews. The interviewer calls Obama out on a flaw like the Marxism, the inexperience, the guns, everything. McCain is set up for an easy hit.

So what does he do? "Oh, well, I very much respect Senator Obama, he and I may disagree on policies..."

NO!

[longeyes]

I think it's the "Rosebud" factor, the same thing we see in Bush.  There is something unknown and unspoken in these men's pasts that makes them go soft and fuzzy at the wrong time on certain subjects.  Both have a "thing" about "God's children" south of the border and I suspect other things in common, perhaps overbearing fathers and, who knows, a kindly and caring housekeeper...

[Waitone]

Both have a "thing" about "God's children" south of the border and I suspect other things in common, perhaps overbearing fathers and, who knows, a kindly and caring housekeeper...

....or perhaps really nice guided investments accounts based in numbered accounts in less-than-compliant foreign countries OR inconvenient media coverage which was failed to be published OR miraculous escapes from legal consequences of past questionable actions or associations.  Who knows what the reason(s) is/are.  Fact is the political class no longer (if it ever did) work for Joe and Martha Sixpack.

[longeyes]

That too. 

McCain should realize, if he cares, that the Democratic Party, as currently constituted, stands for the destruction and dismemberment of the American nation, economically, socially, and culturally.  Some of it is sheer childish stupidity, a lot more is by conscious design.  I know it's hard, if you're "respectful," to call it what it is, but McCain will either scare Americans straight by telling them what life under Obama and his Obamatons will be like, for them and their offspring, or he will flat-out lose.

If he treats this pivotal Election, with all its historic overtones and implications, as just another political contest with two "good Americans" running against each other, he is beyond an idiot and probably, as many of us have already speculated, working for dark forces that really couldn't give a hoot which puppet wins.