John McCain offers his newest lurch today.
In a speech he is scheduled to give in Virginia Beach on Monday, McCain says 17 times that he will fight for America, according to his prepared remarks. He repeatedly calls himself a "fighter." And he's an experienced fighter who won't--like you know who--have to study up on issues before making command decisions.
Over and over in this new stump speech, McCain says he is ready to fight--for the country, for change, for a new direction, for the future, for the children, for justice for all. Seriously.
Times are tough, McCain notes, but America is worth fighting. It needs a fighter like John McCain, who is a real fighter who has always been a fighter for America.
In other words, vote for the fight guy. Here's how the speech ends:
I know what hopelessness feels like. It's an enemy who defeats your will. I felt those things once before. I will never let them in again. I'm an American. And I choose to fight. Don't give up hope. Be strong. Have courage. And fight. Fight for a new direction for our country. Fight for what's right for America. Fight to clean up the mess of corruption, infighting and selfishness in Washington. Fight to get our economy out of the ditch and back in the lead. Fight for the ideals and character of a free people. Fight for our children's future. Fight for justice and opportunity for all. Stand up to defend our country from its enemies. Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight. America is worth fighting for. Nothing is inevitable here. We never give up. We never quit. We never hide from history. We make history.
Get the picture?
This new pitch doesn't even qualify as a Hail Mary. It seems not substantial enough to rate as a real play. It's as if McCain's handlers did a focus group and found that the one word undecided voters associate positively with McCain is "fighter." And that's all McCain's strategist have to work with.
That wouldn't be a shock. The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll is loaded with bad news for the McCainiacs. Not only is Obama up by 10 points among registered voters, but Obama is seen by more registered voters (55 percent) as a safe choice for president than McCain (50 percent). Worse for McCain, the poll shows that far more voters believe he is attacking his opponent rather than addressing the issues (59 percent) than those who feel the same about Obama (26 percent.) And McCain's favorable rating has in the past month dropped from 59 percent to 52 percent, while Obama's has gone up from 58 percent to 64 percent.
Which means McCain's blistering attacks against Obama have boomeranged. They have made him seem a candidate mired in mud. If the poll is accurate, then the McCain campaign cannot stick to this road. Though McCain promised die-hard (rabid, that is) supporters last week he would blast Obama with Bill Ayers at the final debate Wednesday night, it could well be counterproductive for him to do so.
What are his options, then? McCain and his advisers appear to believe it's to say the word "fight" over and over. To reprise the POW pitch and offer McCain to voters as a fighter. Rah, rah. Fight, team, fight. This seems rather pathetic. It is true that the first thing a candidate has to do when he's in a hole is to stop digging. But McCain may need a better ladder than this.
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DC,
Barack once asked (about HRC) "Why does everything have to be a fight?"
Stick a fork in McCain he is done.
Posted by: capt
| October 13, 2008 11:48 AM
FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT FOR...........................
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~McCain Campaign Has Strong Ties To Corporate Lobbyists At Center Of Bailout
www(dot)thinkprogress(dot)org/2008/09/22/mccain-campaign-lobbies-bailou
~McCain on Special Interest, Lobbyists and DC Sleaze—What you should remember
www(dot)personals(dot)nymag(dot)com/blog/1069/post_78180.html?dcb=personals(dot)nymag(dot)com
~Media advance myth of McCain as lobbyist foe
www(dot)mediamatters(dot)org/items/200802260009
~the McCAIN BUSH GRAMM foreclosure plan: called BIG BANK BAILOUT (4 more years of BUSH PILLAGE?)
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Posted by: WyattBeck@BowWowTicker
| October 13, 2008 11:49 AM
MEASURING THE DRAPES ? ? ?
Does anyone really think Obama is a pro at decorating the one house he owns or does McCain come with much more experienced decorating credentials from the 13 Mansions he lives in. __________________________
An Economic Terrorist, McCain Helped Millions Of Americans Die Broke Or Die As A Result Of Being Broke From His Keating5 Involvement:
www(dot)keatingeconomics(dot)com
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www(dot)phoenixnewtimes(dot)com/1989-11-29/news/mccain-the-most-reprehensible-of-the-keating-five/1
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MCCAIN/WATERGATE ASSOCIATIONS:
G. Gordon Liddy: John McCain Finds His Own Radical Criminal Ties At A Fundraiser For McCain At Liddy's House
www(dot)huffingtonpost(dot)com/2008/05/05/g-gordon-liddy-john-mccai_n_100134(dot)html
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MCCAIN/AYERS ASSOCIATIONS:
David Kearns, Terrorist Sympathizer: Kearns worked for John McCain's 2000 campaign and works current for his 2008 campaign.
Pro Bono education advisor to Annenberg Foundation who approved $49.2 million grant to William Ayers.
Chairman of the Alexandria-based New American Schools Development Corporation (NASDC)—a 1991 school reform initiative of President George H. W. Bush; former Deputy Secretary of Education (1991–1993) under Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander in the George H. W. Bush administration; former president, CEO and chairman of Xerox.
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Arnold R. Weber, Terrorist Pal : Weber has donated money to John McCain's 2008 Campaign.
Served on founding Board of Directors of the Chicago Annenberg/Ayres Challenge. President of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago (1995–1999); member of the board of directors of the Arie and Ida Crown Memorial and the Tribune Company; former president of Northwestern University (1985–1994) and the University of Colorado (1980–1985); professor of labor economics and friend and colleague of George P. Shultz at MIT, the University of Chicago, and in the Nixon administration.
Posted by: WyattBeck@BowWowTicker
| October 13, 2008 12:04 PM
Don't count your chickens! It ain't over 'till it's over. Don't let it slide and take nothing for granted. Donate another round to Obama and join one of his campaigns.
You are going to have to make it happen... so do something!
Posted by: Hunter Gatherer
| October 13, 2008 6:12 PM
Isn't it too soon for a remake of "The Fight Club"?
But the remake of John McCain is coming too late at an election near you.
Meanwhile, Sarah Palin is close to closing the deal on the remake of the classic film, "North to Alaska."
Posted by: Wahidiyya Kosmotikos
| October 13, 2008 7:12 PM
You have to be concerned, in a real sense, when a 72 year old disabled man wants to pick a fight with a slim, energetic 44 year old. In Virginia he said he would "Kick his Ass".
McCain has literally aged 9 years running for president. (2000-2008) This campaign has aged him another five. Now his real age is about 78 and a realistic actuarial table will not have him live out his first term. Being president for one year will make him 85. How many 85 year old men are alive that spent five years in prison and survived five bouts of cancer? (officially four, which doesn't count the surgery in March 2008)
The only one who says he can kick Obama's ass and live as long as his 95 year old mother is John himself.
The poll that should be taken on Tuesday is the poll of the 1340 GM workers and Michigan voters in GOP Grand Rapids who are losing their jobs at Christmas. Who are they going to vote for? The spillage from that plant closing will put 10,000 people out of work in Grand Rapids.
Will John fight for them, or will he just call them his friends?
"We've got them just where we want them."
Hey, didn't he just poach that comment for Giuliani after he tanked in Florida this year?
Posted by: geof01
| October 13, 2008 8:23 PM
Dis-gust-ting!
Posted by: David B. Benson
| October 13, 2008 10:01 PM
McCain:
"I know what hopelessness feels like."
More and more day by day I assume?
Posted by: capt
| October 13, 2008 10:58 PM
Wait a minute. Gov. Palin said in her acceptance speech that the ONLY candidate to really fight for us when victory meant survival and defeat meant death was John McCain -- meaning that the ONLY way to fight (to this ticket's way of thinking) is in the military. So, this isn't really fighting. This is all a sham. (Of course, this whole line of thinking is insane and dooms us to endless war, but hey, it's right in line with most of the other simplistic, wrong-headed stuff they're saying.)
Posted by: Unitarian Patriot
| October 13, 2008 11:24 PM
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