This is in response to gsy987 here, complaining that the GOP needs to adjust itself to make “moderates” more comfortable. Of course, his advice, like that of David Frum, Rick Moran, David Brooks, etc. is that we jettison social conservatives and demand less loyalty of “moderates” toward the party. My father here is exhibit A right now in everything that is wrong with the Republican | Read More »
I’ll begin by quoting then Governor Ronald Reagan. A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers … And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way. In other words, a Tent must have limits. My | Read More »
Bring up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac repeatedly (don’t wait for the moderator to bring it up) and hit him (and his fellow Democrats) hard during tomorrow’s debate and the debate afterward. Tell of the contributions, of his work for ACORN suing CitiGroup for rightfully not giving loans to people who could not pay them back. Attach his name to Fannie Mae CEOs Jim Johnson | Read More »
I liked McCain’s speech in Virginia Beach yesterday. It wasn’t the most partisan of speeches, but together with his vigorous defense of his supporters on liberal CNN, it showed, unlike the performance of the McCain we saw in the debates, that the old sailor may still have some of the fight left in him. The only question is if this fighter will show up at | Read More »
The economy is the number one issue on voters’ minds, and it looks like it’s going to remain that way considering the daily barrage of bad news from Wall Street. In other words, John McCain simply cannot duck his head down on the issue and hope it goes away by Election Day – he has to address it. An ad highlighting this is a good | Read More »
McCain may have mentioned it in one or two speeches, and his campaign may have issued a gratifyingly harsh press release about it a few days ago … but that’s generally it. Even the ads that are meant to be on the two GSEs and Obama and his fellow Democrats’ role in protecting them have been milquetoast affairs and restricted to the web for political | Read More »
I faxed this to the McCain campaign’s headquarters today. I humbly request all who can to help me reinforce the message. The numbers (Fax) are; (703)752 2515 : (McCain/Palin HQ) NOTE: This was the number during the primaries – it may not be the same now. (202)228 2862 : (McCain’s office in the Senate) Go to this page for fax numbers to the RNC. eg; (202) 863 | Read More »
So McCain has finally(!) seen the light on letting Obama and the Democrats off the hook for their enabling of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I sincerely hope he fired whoever it was that told him it was a good idea to cower behind “Bipartisanship” and hope the issue goes away (sure does sound familiar, don’t it?). The only issue now is whether he would | Read More »
In all likelihood, John McCain, after listening to the so-called “advice” of the coterie of failures and incompetents that so spectacularly failed George W. Bush, is going to, once again, blame “Wall Street greed” in the abstract for the sub-prime mess when asked, and if he makes any mention of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, he would only do so in passing and nod in | Read More »
UPDATE: I faxed this to the McCain campaign’s headquarters this morning. I humbly request all who can to help me reinforce the message. The numbers (Fax) are; (703)752 2515 : (McCain/Palin HQ) NOTE: This was the number during the primaries – it may not be the same now. (202)228 2862 : (McCain’s office in the Senate) Go to this page for fax numbers to the RNC. eg; | Read More »
Sir(s), I, one of your campaign’s supporters, need some answers from your principal candidate – John McCain. Is he in this to win, or is he more interested in being friends with the opposition? Does he want to be president or is he harboring a secret desperate longing to go back to being one of a hundred? Personally, I’m beginning to get the impression that | Read More »
With respect to his campaign, McCain needs to liberate his running mate from the former Bush aides brought in to handle her — aides who seem to have succeeded in importing to the Palin campaign the trademark defensive crouch of the Bush White House. Why, oh, why … in the name of all that is Holy would Steve Schmidt allow anyone who has ever had | Read More »
With respect to his campaign, McCain needs to liberate his running mate from the former Bush aides brought in to handle her — aides who seem to have succeeded in importing to the Palin campaign the trademark defensive crouch of the Bush White House. Why, oh, why … in the name of all that is Holy would Steve Schmidt allow anyone who has ever had | Read More »
When the time came for McCain to let the American know how the current crisis came about, he demurred and instead went populist, going on and on abstractly about Wall Street and greed, when the fact is that financial houses were compelled to give housing loans to people with little prospect of paying it back. The role played by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in | Read More »
Author’s Note: I apologize if this reads like a “stream of consciousness” morass … Reading through RS, Instapundit, Ace, Powerline, etc. today, I’ve come across information dug up by bloggers and commenters that is a potential goldmine for any good (and aggressive) campaign organization that knows how to present it well in ads and interviews by the candidates and their surrogates. We may not be | Read More »
As a lot of people are beginning to notice, after the Palin pick sent the Obama Campaign and his cohorts in the media into spastic paroxysms of insanity and hatred, the two entities (to the extent that they’re actually two separate entities) seem to have re-established their previously smooth-running hand-in-hand relationship. Much as we don’t want to admit it, the Obama Campaign is clawing its | Read More »
![[RS]](/t/img/logo-footer.jpg){kind=logo}