Why McCain is going so negative, so often (Politico)

[chill_wind]

What we can expect between now and the debates from the McCain/Schmidt campaign.

Doesn't mean we have to cooperate.


Get a load of THIS. McCain tried to call the shots---didn't get his "Debate" demands met, so............

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“If we had done what I asked Sen. Obama to do, because I’ve been in a lot of other campaigns where I have appeared with the opposition with the people and listened to their hopes and dreams and aspirations, I don't think you'd see the tenor of this campaign," he said.

That’s the candidate’s public answer - and one that a former adviser suggested that McCain may have convinced himself to believe is true.

Current campaign aides and other Republicans who’ve closely watched the race, however, have a very different response to the media elites and good-government scolds: we don’t care what you think.

McCain seems to have made a choice that many politicians succumb to but which he had always promised to avoid - he appears ready to do whatever it takes to win, even it if soils his reputation.

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“Every day not talking about the economy, the war and how to fix a broken system is a victory for McCain,” said John Weaver, a former top strategist to the nominee who left the campaign last year. “They’re going to ride it as long as they can and as long as the mainstream media puts up every ridiculous charge.”


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Why McCain is going so negative, so often

Jonathan Martin

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080913/pl_politico/13412

[AllentownJake]

1. If you would have done the dishes like I told you

You wouldn't have a black eye.

[chill_wind]

4. "If you would have kissed my ass and shown me a little DEFERENCE

for all my Washington years--- I wouldn't have tell you to get to the back of the bus."

[chill_wind]

10. self-delete-- to move reply

[hisownpetard]

5. wrong place

[hisownpetard]

6. Perfect.

[blondeatlast]

14. Yup, nt

[LaurenG]

2. that's all he's got. He's a washed up old man - thus the elbow candy

There is no substance in that party.

[iceman66]

3. I like that

"The McCain/Schmidt campaign". We should use that more often!

[chill_wind]

7. "Fun Steve is dead!"

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/us/politics/07schmidt.html?_r=2&hp=&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

[Kahuna]

8. I figured it out. He doesn't want to give away his hand for the debates..

He doesn't want to discuss issues that will cause the debate moderator and Obama to have "gotcha" moments.

[faithfulcitizen]

9. Wow...we should rate this up! Good little article about their nasty tactics.

[chill_wind]

11. Please rec to the GP: This is the sum total of their game plan before sept 26.

It's we who have to wrestle it away from them.

[blondeatlast]

12. The bastard thinks he OWNS the campaign. He's had it so easy for so long running in Arizona

that he can get his way in the big leagues. And this:

"...I’ve been in a lot of other campaigns where I have appeared with the opposition..."

Not true. he almost NEVER appears here (I'm a constituent) with his opposition especially if he can get out of it.

[roseBudd]

13. click through to that Yahoo link & rate it a 5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chill_wind]

15. .

[chill_wind]

16. Terry Nelson (former McCain camp manager) doesn't exactly help him out here:

The question now, though, is just how long McCain can keep riding the wave of process and Palin.

“If they don’t attack her, she’s going to go back to being the vice presidential nominee,” Nelson said of the Democrats. “And in the natural scheme of things, the focus will go back to McCain and Obama.”

At that point, “the biggest burden for the McCain campaign will be to convey a compelling, positive vision for the country’s future.”

Truer words were never spoken. He hasn't accomplished that yet. With less than 60 days to go, he's probably not going to.


No wonder Freepers have been hacking away at the yahoo stars.