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Re: You too could be a consultant for the GOP

Betty Chambers — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:27:24 -0000

There are plenty of suggestions for how McCain could turn this around. But since I desire to see him defeated, there will be no help forthcoming.

Re: You too could be a consultant for the GOP

billy — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:45:01 -0000

What has McBush ever got done in life? He got shot down, caught, and tortured in the process of trying to carpet bomb innocent suvillians in Vietnam. He coldnt even carpet bomb innocent suvillians right. And for this they call him a war hero. If I were that much of a screw up, I would get fired. Hell, maybe I could replace McBush.

Re: You too could be a consultant for the GOP

Eamon — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:14:06 -0000

Julio is right-it IS an obvious point. Yesterday morning I read on Politico that McCain would be spending the day in Des Moines and my first thought was...what?WHY?He's not going to win Iowa, it's not close, and there are 35 days before election day. Candidate travel SHOULD be one of the truest reflections of where the campaign thinks they stand in the various battlegrounds...notice, for example, that it is no coincidence that Obama has been to NC twice in the last 10 days as polls show him surging there. So my thoughts on McCain in Iowa were either that these people are more incompetent than I could have imagined in my wildest dreams OR that they are struggling so badly EVERYWHERE that sending McCain to Iowa didn't seem much more absurd than sending him to Wisconsin or Colorado or PA...given the way the state-by-state public polling is looking today, the latter scenario is gaining credence...

Re: You too could be a consultant for the GOP

Deborah — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:29:43 -0000

We are all GOP consultants now.

Re: You too could be a consultant for the GOP

King Corn — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:56:17 -0000

Don't think I've seen anyone mention in this context that McCain specifically denigrated ethanol subsidies in the debate last week. Maybe he's trying to make nice for the 2012 primary caucus....

Re: You too could be a consultant for the GOP

anonanon — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:32:14 -0000

Who would have thought that a Republican campaign could do worse than Dole '96 and Bush '92?

Re: You too could be a consultant for the GOP

ResumeMan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:19:24 -0000

And this is why McCain is going to lose, because he is running the worst Republican presidential campaign possibly in living memory.

Well I mostly think that McCain is going to lose because (a) the greater conditions in the country mean that the deck is heavily stacked against the Republican candidate, and (b) Obama is running the best Democratic campaign in, at least, recent memory.

That said, McCain is running wild and pretty much destroying any chances he may have had.

Re: You too could be a consultant for the GOP

Libertarian — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:53:18 -0000

And this is why McCain is going to lose, because he is running the worst Republican presidential campaign possibly in living memory.

Re: You too could be a consultant for the GOP

CLR — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:53:16 -0000

I don't want to be a GOP consultant. Based on the current candidate, I'm more than qualified to be the GOP vice presidential nominee.

Re: You too could be a consultant for the GOP

nista206 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:52:31 -0000

I told you all that McCain is too senile to understand what's going on....

Re: You too could be a consultant for the GOP

Julio — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:48:49 -0000

Mike stays on my jock, fam. He went off on that hot mic on MSNBC right after I got done telling my folks about how the Palin pick undercuts his brand.

But nah, I'm not going to take credit. It's an obvious point. There's no upside to being in Iowa in general and no upside to talking with those folks specifically, especially if that paper leans to the left.