McCain suffers from "paper gap"

[mcctatas]

"Analysts caution that both McCain and Barack Obama have produced policy pronouncements that are just as much election documents as workable proposals; after all, that is what presidential candidates do. But when it comes to the metric of paper produced, McCain trails Obama in spelling out the nitty-gritty.

"The Obama people are much more detailed," said Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a bipartisan advocacy group dedicated to balancing the budget.

Consider McCain campaign senior adviser Taylor Griffin’s description of his candidate's plan for fixing Social Security:

"The history of the Social Security debate has taught that too many specifics, especially during a presidential campaign, has polarized the debate," he said of the program that McCain called "an absolute disgrace got to be fixed."

Will he contrast his plan to that of his opponent? "Sen. McCain believes this is so important that we do not politicize this debate during an election season."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/12215.html

[PM7nj]

1. All hat and no cattle!

:eyes:

[Gabi Hayes]

2. he KNOWS how to win wars, he KNOWS how to find Osama, I mean Obams, and he KNOWS

how to fix social security, but his plans are SO secret that he FORGOT what they are....that's why he won't reveal them....he really CAN'T

[FrenchieCat]

3. Don't forget that's he's gonna balance the budget by the end of his term

he just hasn't written down how he is gonna get it done! :eyes:

[Gabi Hayes]

4. did you see Jon Stewart's clip of McC saying what he was going to accomplish in his first term?

that was pretty damn funny, and NOBODY in the M$M used a moment of it, that I saw.

certainly nobody discussed any details of it, even the poor, ineffectual dem surrogates that pollute the airwaves with their fecklessness.

[FrenchieCat]

5. That's why our candidate can't just do what we feel is "right".......

cause anything said or done is molded based on what the media wants.

But we, the Doofus branch of the Democratic party, we just believe that we know exactly what works. But in reality, for the most part, we don't have a clue.

[Gabi Hayes]

6. the reason for that is the pugs, as has been said, ''throw spaghetti against the wall''

they throw an entire BOWL of spaghetti, (Sinclair blowjob, anyone?), and only a very few stick, but when they do, the media go APESHIT, and carry the story until the NEXT spaghetti strand sticks. they have more than enough ammo, which is limited only by their imagination, because they're not bound by the truth. they can take innumerable segments of his quotes, and turn it into the very disingenuous centerpiece of sleazy attack ad copy. thus, EVERYTHING a dem says or does is fodder, and it's impossible to be circumspect enough to protect against the most vile attack. BRILLIANT strategy, and one the dems better adapt, on a scale dealing in truth, in some form or another. all they need to do, for example, is start playing the almost uncountable lies/contradictions/flipflops McCain has told. one a day for as long as they last, then repeat the ones that raised the most stink. see if the media will play ANY of them.

did you see the Moses one, where they took Milbank's version of the "symbol" quote, and made that the headliner of the ad?

Washington Week in REview, PBS, played it tonight, and declared it to be HILARIOUS, and effective, while commenting how smart the pugs were to put stuff up like this, cause the media repeats it 'for free!' not one bit of irony in the assessment, either, as if they aren't part of the media, I guess.

that was a really disgusting performance by these actors portraying journalists: Pete Williams, John Harwood, a guy from National Journal, and some dumb blonde from the LA Times, and Karen Tumulty