Comments on: McCAIN CAMPAIGN STILL FOUNDERING

By: Drewsmom

Drewsmom — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:40:25 +0000

Great post as usual Rick.
I am not thrilled with this Rhino running but when I think about Obama getting into office I am really frightened.

By: jambrowski

jambrowski — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:16:19 +0000

calling this a negative ad is trollop, or more nicely said bull plop. the media and obamessiah’s camp calling this negative is like the frying pan calling the skillet black. bho has had his surrogates (i.e., wes clark) spouting all kinds of negative and even slanderous things for months. instead of the media calling that negative they just run with it as fact. i think today’s and yesterdays polls are showing the media and us that american’s want to see mccain fight back, together with the pre-emptive race card obama is playing into mccain’s hand. i’ll be damned and i know many others that will definitely not vote for someone who says they WILL use my race against me, the BS flag has been thrown up.

By: John McCain Continues To Make A Mockery Of Civil Campaigning & A Fool Of Himself

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:32:53 +0000

[...] Writes Rick Moran at Rightwing Nuthouse: “I saw the ad and wondered, wtf? What does Brittney Spears have to do with presidential politics? The ad seemed petulant, as if the candidate were complaining that it was unfair that Obama was more popular than McCain. [...]

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:30:54 +0000

I find it frustrating that McCain cannot get it going. I can’t help but believe Obama is vulnerable right now and could be dethroned. As far as a negative campaign, I think it will be required. I’m not talking mean or tasteless but the only thing Obama really has going for him is his shiny image. No experience, no clear plan. McCain needs to tarnish that image a bit.

By: John

John — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:10:32 +0000

Rick—-There is part of me that agrees with you—But the other part says that to even be heard, the cult of personalty that is driving the Obama campaign has to be punctured and this ad is a first good start at this—On NR’s site there is one person’s report that this was the first ad this particular man’s wife would look at of McCain’s and she then went on to look at other McCain ads she had herethereto never been inclined to take an interest in—hopefully a coordinated issues series will follow

By: still liberal

still liberal — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:20:16 +0000

Picking through the verbage, the truth is quitely exposed. John McCain doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of being elected President. Bless his heart, McCain is very, very bad campaigner. While not PC to say, he comes across as just what he is: a grouchy old man. He, fairly or not, represents conservatism, which now has a 40 year track record of massive government spending and expansion, new record national debt levels, an economy no one trusts, and a “war” on terror that is no more winnable through military means than the “war” on poverty. The old chestnut of using the term liberal as a scary epithet now only works on the 28% idiotariat.

Obama has correctly put his finger on the pulse of the electorate. We want change and it doesn’t really matter what the change is. That is why the tabla rasa Barack presents is perfect for this election cycle. What we have been through is so thoroughly discredited, we’ll take a flyer with someone whose major accomplishment is just not sounding like the village idiot when they speak.

By: Bill Arnold

Bill Arnold — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:39:38 +0000

Then why all the competent people say otherwise? I.e. it will be about a decade before drilling will have any effect, and even then it will lower the prices for about 0.5%? Is it because they are in fact incompetent shills??

Perhaps the argument involves oil futures, which can extend to the time when drilling might actually have begin (with grossly optimistic estimates) to an impact. Also, keeping oil in the ground rather than pumping it is, or can be considered, a form of speculation.

The real issue though is demand, especially from India and China. We (the U.S.) can’t control the demand growth.

By: Bill Arnold

Bill Arnold — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:34:53 +0000

Consider the other “celeb,” Paris Hilton. She is famous for being famous with absolutely no accomplishments to her name, except possibly continuing to be a “celeb.”
She’s otherwise known as the single best argument against the repeal of the estate tax.
Also, the Hilton family is strongly Republican and is reportedly unhappy with this ad.
This was a very confused ad, from the campaign of a man who wears $520 dollar loafers. (Nordstrom’s price, I checked)

By: Neo

Neo — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:54:13 +0000

I wonder what the reaction would have been if McCain had used Michael Jackson and OJ Simpson as the “celebs” ?

By: Neo

Neo — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:46:20 +0000

By reading the stuff about this ad, one would think that McCain had used voodoo to pluck out the eyes of Obama or raped his children.

And this stuff about it being “racist” .. amazing. By this measure, Rev. Wright is the devil himself.

This is a fairly mild ad that really hit the spot. It’s pretty obvious by the reaction that Obama must be bleeding .. votes.