McCain's Rove Playbook
Pew Center Poll
Sometimes the tactics of the Karl Rove team advising John McCain just boggle the mind. Business Week’s marketing blogger David Kiley reported the following.
What the McCain campaign doesn’t want people to know, according to one GOP strategist I spoke with over the weekend, is that they had an ad script ready to go if Obama had visited the wounded troops saying that Obama was…wait for it…using wounded troops as campaign props. So, no matter which way Obama turned, McCain had an Obama bashing ad ready to launch. I guess that’s political hardball. But another word for it is the one word that most politicians are loathe to use about their opponents—a lie.
Pretty amazing how so few members of the traditional media are willing to use the word “lie” to describe what Karl Rove, Steve Schmidt and their slimeballs are doing. But of course McCain says he’s proud of these ads, so I guess they will continue. McCain is well aware that the enthusiasm gap among Republicans for his campaign is very low (chart above). He has no choice but to try to bring Obama down, since he will never get above 44%.
The source of McCain’s desperation is of course the polling in the battle ground states.
If you had told a Democrat a year ago that, on the last day of July, their candidate would be ahead in Ohio and Florida, well ahead in Pennsylvania , way ahead in California, tied in Montana, within single digits in a couple of states that went really red in 2000 and 2004, they’d be pretty thrilled with that set of polling.
It will get worse, before it gets better (on Nov 5)
The last thing this country needs is another half-assed President, “elected” by a minority and under suspicion of vote fraud and outright lying and cheating. That’s what I think it will take to “elect” McCain, and he’s not above doing whatever it takes. He demonstrates his personal standards of honor and integrity daily.
It will get worse, before it gets better (on Nov 5)
The last thing this country needs is another half-assed President, “elected” by a minority and under suspicion of vote fraud and outright lying and cheating. That’s what I think it will take to “elect” McCain, and he’s not above doing whatever it takes. He demonstrates his personal standards of honor and integrity daily.
Don’t you think there was a back room deal that promised the nomination in 2008 to McCain if he’d just back off of GW those years back? McCain was on GW’s case heavy duty; JMcC was an “Independant…thinker”…and then he caved. That was a back room deal if there ever was one. And now, J. McC. has the back room operatives paying him back by doing what they do best…lie, manipulate, and make use of everything they learned from Machiavelli and Orwell to try to hold onto their power. May it crumble to dust…
Don’t you think there was a back room deal that promised the nomination in 2008 to McCain if he’d just back off of GW those years back? McCain was on GW’s case heavy duty; JMcC was an “Independant…thinker”…and then he caved. That was a back room deal if there ever was one. And now, J. McC. has the back room operatives paying him back by doing what they do best…lie, manipulate, and make use of everything they learned from Machiavelli and Orwell to try to hold onto their power. May it crumble to dust…
[...] taking the Sugar Momma Express Low Road Express manufacturing controversy and going negative, and taking damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t criticism of Obama’s planned visit with the …. But by calling out Obama’s ‘celebrity’ and comparing him to Paris Hilton (and [...]
[...] taking the Sugar Momma Express Low Road Express manufacturing controversy and going negative, and taking damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t criticism of Obama’s planned visit with the …. But by calling out Obama’s ‘celebrity’ and comparing him to Paris Hilton (and [...]
What do you mean McCain just took the low road? I know that anyone could put an e-mail out there. But I think McCain claims he knows nothing about e-mail and the net for a reason. So it can’t be his fault!!!!! Also saying Obama is playing the race card. He lay in wait to find an oppertunity to play it himself. Obama is black, obama is white he can say he is either one. Has John Sidney had to claim he is either one???? No because us “White” people don’t have to bring it up. Life is fair???
What do you mean McCain just took the low road? I know that anyone could put an e-mail out there. But I think McCain claims he knows nothing about e-mail and the net for a reason. So it can’t be his fault!!!!! Also saying Obama is playing the race card. He lay in wait to find an oppertunity to play it himself. Obama is black, obama is white he can say he is either one. Has John Sidney had to claim he is either one???? No because us “White” people don’t have to bring it up. Life is fair???