1

I always come back the Ronald Reagans " bold colors, not pale pastels" line.

The RNC and McCain need to realize people want to be led , not pandered to by squishy rhetoric.

And you don't throw your Goddamn party under the bus to score points with environuts who have NO INTENTION of voting for you.

A firm prinicpled conservative campaign would obliterate Obama- instead we get sackcloth and ashes. Idiots!

2 I actually like the ad. I think that McCain is lousy on the environment, however, like Newt said, Republicans are always the first on the environment, we need to be again. This ad is right on, Obama wants to cripple the economy to prevent "global warming," John McCain wants help average Americans, while hurting big corporations (which I am against, I am VERY pro-capitalist, not one of the those anti-big business Republicans, I love big business they give us jobs). So niether are perfect, but you Conservatives who won't vote for Obama need to think about what you may unintentionally get our country in to, and Obama presidency would see an end to years of prosperity, and make our country more like Europe - now with the exception of Poland, and maybe the CR, do we really want that? Take a couple shots of Val-u-Rite vodka, and vote McCain if you can't do it otherwise.

3 I've already said I'm voting for McCain, it would just be nice if he stopped pissing on my fucking leg.

AGW is on its face and bleeding, the MSM is trying to resuscitate it so they can get their fascism on, and Johnny Mac is rushing in with the defibrillator.

Just stop, John, the fucking Sierra Club is NOT going to vote for you... and at the rate you're going, the base isn't going to either.

The only man who can defeat McCain is McCain, so he needs to get out of his own face and let himself win.

4 Hmm.

Does this surprise anyone?

It certainly doesn't surprise me.  I figure the kind of ad McCain runs in October will be along the lines of "Vote for me cause I'm going to fuck those Republicans hard!".

5 Hmmmm.

"The only man who can defeat McCain is McCain, so he needs to get out of his own face and let himself win."

Interesting he did really well when Obama got all the face time and McCain wasn't anywhere to be seen.

He should really try the "Shut the fuck up" strategy.  Of course his campaign consultants won't go for it because that's money not in their fingers.

6 McCain is making the same mistake in dealing with the moonbats as the moonbats are making in dealing with Islamic terror.  The moonbats thinks that if we just show Islam enough throat and don't notice that they are a bunch of  irrational savages, that they will learn to love us.  McCain  thinks if he just shows enough throat and doesn't notice that they are a bunch of irrational moonbats that they will learn to love him.  Both strategies are failures because both make an initial false assumption.  That false assumption is that the other guys are rational and acting in good faith.  In fact, both moonbats and Islamofascists are irrational and acting in bad faith.

7 Which is exactly why I won't vote for or help fund any party or person who is anti-liberty. McCain and many at the RNC are anti-liberty in their words and actions. They get nothing and I hope they lose badly.

8 I got somethin' for you, Drew. 

9 runninrebel,

Heh.

Thanks. I'll use it to play a dirge if McCain ever gets to institute his amnesty and cap and trade plans.

10

Just saw it during the Reds/Nationals game here in the battleground state of Ohio.  My first impression was meh.  I feel distinctly un-pandered to.  Is that the same thing as disenfranchised? 

My second impression was, the RNC is trying to get the climate alarmists on board with more drilling and the drill here now folks to recognize our climate in crisis in the same ad.  That is a wide stance to keep your balance with.  Best of luck Maverick. 

 

11

He's pushing his own party to face climate change.

This from the RNC.  Er, aren't you guys "the party" that he's pushing?  Why not, you know, respond to him, guys?

I can't wait for the amnesty commercial:

He's trying to shut the bigots in his own party up.

 

12 McCain/Lieberman -'08: I can haz ur Party.

13 I hope you McCain voters are stocking up on the vaseline and KY Jelly. You are certainly going to need it if your guy gets in. Oops, sorry, bad choice of words. Heh.

14
This ad has the bad taste to actually mention McCain's opponent in the election. Then the ad shows a picture of him where he can clearly be seen as black. How racist can you get?

15

I'd like to thank the RNC for making it easier for me to not feel bad about laughing when I throw their solicitation letters in the trash...

...not one fucking dime, Senator.

Not.One.Fucking.Dime.

16 McCant

17

The McCain commercial isn’t bad, but it’s just a bit too bland. It seems like someone is giving McCain fair campaign advice, but not good advice. This commercial (via Hot Air) is better, and no names are mentioned..

What is really needed, and needed by early September, is a series of commercials like the one showing the ordinary public educating Michelle Obama about pride in America.

There is something to be said for saying nothing while BHO trips himself up trying to master foreign policy, economics, and every other thing all leaders with experience have already mastered, but at some point McCain needs to say something.  Questions need to be asked, explanations need to be demanded and problems, failures need to be exposed, and all at an adult level.

Ideally, all of this will happen at a live & televised, adult-style, debate.  But someone is refusing, and it isn't McCain; who is it and why?

McCain needs to hammer away on BHO’s past associations; Wright and the other racists; Ayres and the other sanctimonious terrorist snots; Rezko and the multitude of failed Chicago housing refurbishments.  $43million was paid to Rezko and the result was and still seems to be: bankrupt developments and mostly empty apartments; who has the money now?  Anyone want to see this at the national level?

McCain needs to hammer away on BHO’s resume and work experience; to paraphrase Cap’n Ed at Hot Air:

If McCain’s 24 years in the US Senate are not sufficient, how are BHO’s 3 (most of them spent campaigning for President)?

If McCain’s tour as military commander, leader and, well, warrior (in the ancient sense of the word) are not sufficient, how is BHO’s time as community organizer a better qualification (which he left, to go to Harvard)?

McCain is not perfect, and I have reservations, but BHO owes too many people (looks like about $925,000 to Rezko), and has spent essentially all of his career dogmatically following and executing the instructions of others. His regular disavowal of friends, supporters ideas, etc., sheds a new light on the meaning of the phrase "That’s not the ____ I knew"©.

Who here dreams of the Michael Moore / Arec Bardwin / Kos / San Francisco / SF Billionaire’s Row / Leftist utopia that BHO’s "Hope and Change" represents?

Do not vote for McCain this November, and your dream will come true.

18 Whine, whine, whine...

Drew is the mirror-image of the Kossaks who constantly threaten to take their ball and go home if the Party doesn't capitulate to every one of their demands!

It may have escaped your braniac minds, but could you perhaps entertain the concept that the reason the Republicans were successful until 2006 was that they continually managed to persuade the independent/centrists out there?

Rove was wrong. 2002 and 2004 successes weren't the result of "turning out the base," but rather engaging the center.

The Kossacks won't win elections with their mindless dogma any more than the Malkanites will with their "McShamnesty," or "every Muslim supports terrorists" demagoguing.

Winners capture a wide spread; this could include a left/center/somewhat-right distribution, a (theoretical) "true center" distribution, or a somewhat-left/center/right distribution.

...And I hate to tell you guys, but the "we may suck, but the Demoncrats suck worse!" defense took a huge hit back in 2006. Y'all might want to consider a different strategy.

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...shouldn't the RNC be spending its money reaching out to, you know, tell the Truth?!?

"Climate Changing Global Worms" my Aunt Fannie...

20

Drew is the mirror-image of the Kossaks who constantly threaten to take their ball and go home if the Party doesn't capitulate to every one of their demands!

As a conservative, I don't expect him to "capitulate to every one of [my] demands." I do expect his ACU rating to be higher than the lifetime rating of 82.3%, the pathetic 74% that it's been since 2000, and the absolutely risible 64% conservative rating in 2006, the last year of available data (and a year in which he was 47th in conservative Senate votes). Only  RINOs Collins, Snowe, Chafee and Specter make his numbers look tolerable. Add to this that Sen. Kyl has a lifetime ACU rating of 96.9%--representing the same state's constituency.

For a guy who pitches himself as a "Reagan-era Republican," I don't think it's asking too much that he vote like one. In fact, I could even be inclined to vote for McCain if he'd just sack up, switch parties, and run as one of their most conservative guys, if only because he'd acknowledge his proper affiliation. At least in doing so he'd quit the bait-and-switch charade. 

21 You know, this country has two parties for a reason, Mr. McCain.  I will not vote for you unless you have a true conservative on the ticket.  No more pandering.  No more 'reaching out across the isle'.  No more of this passive attitude about dealing with your opponents.  I am SICK TO DEATH of the RNC attempting to swing Democrats to the Republican side.  How about appealing to REPUBLICANS, specifically conservatives.  I am fed up with this let's all hold hands on CBS attitude.  FUCK THE MSM!  THEY ARE YOUR ENEMY!  Also, sometimes things need to be said about your opponent that are bad but TRUE.  BHO is  (well SHOULD HAVE been) a gift.  He is the most radical leftist out there, and we stuck with the likes of YOU.  Listen 'MY friend' you had better find you ball sack REAL FUCKIN SOON else this country is going down the shitter.

22

McCain and I have a different view of the election coming up.  I think he needs me and a whole lot of people like me to win, and I think that if he became a conservative republican he would win this going away, because the middle would run to a guy with guts and smart ideas. 

McCain thinks he needs a whole lot of people in the middle to win, but thinks that you have to play to the other side to get them.  I think he's wrong.

We'll see who's right after the election.  I will go to the voting booth, but may only vote lower on the ticket.  I have not decided, and can't seem to find my candidate.

23 Mephitis,

I agree. McCain's still assuming conservatives will rally to him come election day with full faith that "there's nowhere else to go." (Or he actually thinks gains from the middle and middle Left will offset his losses from the Right.) Nuts to that.

McCain's counting on a demographic that likely will be as flighty as bird and deciding on or about election day which way to go depending on such things as the day's political wind which he won't control (historical events and legacy media being what they are), what they had for breakfast, and whether or not there's compelling TV for the evening to compete for their time. That demographic will not draw a single other voter out to help him win an election. That demographic may not even cast its own vote.

The conservative base however, if given something less than regular, swift kickings in the nuts and public chewings out, could actually gin up support on his behalf and draw up for McCain not only their own vote but the votes of those undecideds who were convinced by that base to support him.

McCain cannot count on those who he is courting most right now no matter what he does. It'll be a crapshoot on gameday. His performance so far also ensures that he won't be able to count on a significant portion of the conservative base either.

Hard to believe McCain will likely lose to the most unqualified Presidential candidate ever to have run for the office. I already know I've lost no matter who between McCain or Obama wins, but the GOP faithful need for McCain to have a paradigm shift.

24 Rove was wrong.

BITE YOUR TONGUE! That's heresy and I dare say, young man, deserving of being drawn and quartered. No need to jump the shark to make your point. You may have to sit in Time Out for at least a few hours until you reconsider and apologize for that slander.

25

It may have escaped your braniac minds, but could you perhaps entertain the concept that the reason the Republicans were successful until 2006 was that they continually managed to persuade the independent/centrists out there?

Wrong, Casey, wrong. Rove's foolish "Hispandering" utterly backfired. Creating a new prescription entitlement didn't pay off either.

Rove was wrong. 2002 and 2004 successes weren't the result of "turning out the base," but rather engaging the center.

If what Rove did was "turning out the base" I hate to think what "engaging the center" means...

26

Wrong, Casey, Wrong.

Rove's strategy of "Hispandering" utterly backfired. Giving away a new Medicare presciption entitlement to the old didn't help either.

If THAT was "turning out the base", I hate to think what "appealing to the center" will be....

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Rove was wrong. 2002 and 2004 successes weren't the result of "turning out the base," but rather engaging the center.

There's a huge difference between engaging the center and becoming the center.  Reagan, to use the best example, engaged the center but he used the power of his ideas and his ability to communicate to bring the center to him. You make the base bigger. McCain does just the opposite.  He moves his positions to accomodate them. 

Will McCain's strategy work?  Maybe.  So what?  He doesn't represent me and he has made zero attempt to convince me of the wisdom of his positions either because he doesn't want my vote or he can't. 

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