Comments on: McCain’s Experience Message Is Gone

By: Piq

Piq — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:22:37 +0000

All the grilling is fine, but it accounts for little, when the election will be decided by a majority of mumbling, uneducated halfwit religion fans with no will of their own. They’re speaking too fast for them to “get it” anyway.

Either that, or voter caging, or both…

I am divided between two ideas:

a, the christian right would elect anyone, or anything, as long as they are “pro life” and “pro gun”, and the wise guy in church sais he is ok.

b, the republicans feel it is extremely unlikely they can win this season, and seeing the “performance” of John McCain on the campaign trail who looks like he is about to forget his name every time he speaks, nobody else would take the job.

By: Nedley

Nedley — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:12:15 +0000

Proxy cat fight. The Girl Friday is being s3xist. She doesn’t understand sophisticated decisions taken by men of experience.

By: PC

PC — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:10:51 +0000

Guys, Palin isn’t meant to get all the way to the White House.
She’s just a placeholder for Dick Cheney.
Jeez, isn’t that obvious?
Any other governor would have been savvy enough to see that and decline the sacrificial lamb role, but with her ethics problems and gravid daughter, she has nothing to lose.

By: Brock Lesnar

Brock Lesnar — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:50:40 +0000

First reporter of any organization I’ve seen do their job properly in 20 years…

Nice job Campbell, I thank you deeply.

By: steeve

steeve — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:50:52 +0000

ummmmm.. bbq? She was insulting obama.. flat out.. she wasnt “combating him” she said it with a snarky tone and she meant it s an insult. Yes it was an insult to anyone who tries to help their community. The whole point of a community organizer is to help the people left behind by politics and politicians (such as.. a mayor or a governor).

She insulted him for being a community organizer because she was too STUPID to understand what that is, and their campaign was betting on the majority of american people being too stupid to realize what that insult truly meant. Apparently they were right. According to gallup 48% of americans respond to ignorance..

By: pwb

pwb — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:02:37 +0000

He canceled the show with Larry King on the premise that the campaign was offended by Campbell Brown, but the real reason McSame does not want to talk with CNN about the Earmark Queen is that he cannot defend his lack of vetting an obviously flawed candidate. We need only look back one election to see the shallowness of the American voter.

By: BBQ

BBQ — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:20:33 +0000

BenG,
I am so sick of the faux outrage over the community organizer line. She was combating Obama not acknowledging her Gov. experience. There are many republicans who volunteer. When they talk about community organizers is the paid political rabble rousers.

By: BenG

BenG — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:09:32 +0000

Well, if you watched the interview on face the nation with J. McCain you’ll know why they’re not talking about the issues in their campaign. Watch a video and listen to his answers to many of the key ‘talking point’ issues. Here’s my take on the interview:

He asked to the voters of America to stick with the Republican Party to support their record on Education – he talked about the voucher system as if it has been a great success of the Bush years. Taxes – keeping taxes low is what has kept our economy healthy these past years (????) Raising the taxes on middle class is all the Dems have to offer – is any average American voter buying that single most used lie from the GOP? More on that issue – he said the economy is fundamentally sound because “Our best days are ahead of us…” and he believes in the future of America to get us out of the mess we’re in!!! WTF kind of answer was that?

The most frustrating part of the interview was when he actually talked about VOLUNTEER SERVICE as a way to help with the countries problems. After what went on during the RNC he actually had the nerve to say that? How could that message be so out of touch with the message conveyed at last weeks RNC, and what kind of leader lets that obvious contradiction happen for all to see?

By: Todd

Todd — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:00:16 +0000

Justin,

I would tend to agree the experience message “should” be gone. However, I think sometimes we give too much credit to the intelligence of our fellow Americans. There are way too many people who really do Believe that since she was CINC of the National Guard, and Alaska is close to Russia, etc., she’s ready to lead the country.

… and just for good measure, if you don’t agree you must be sexist. ;-)

Todd

By: Gaucho Politico

Gaucho Politico — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:15:54 +0000

If McCain beats Obama on the change message its because the American people are idiots.

McCain has one bill for 26 years of work. He has changed one thing in that time and now he has run away from that. McCain has nothing to show for almost three decades in congress, he may rail against earmarks but has made zero progress towards reform. Obama has been there for a couple years and has multiple major bipartisan bills dealing with reform.

By: mw

mw — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:51:45 +0000

@phin
I’m seriously laughing out loud. I had to spell it out rather than using “lol” because I really am laughing out loud. Really. I’m sitting here with my laptop on my lap and barely see the screen I am laughing so hard.

They just don’t get it.

@justin
Your headline is right. The “experience message is gone”. Its ok, because McCain is going to beat Obama on the change message. I know you cannot read that sentence right now and understand it, let alone believe it. but I have to put it here right now so I can refer back to it in two months with an “I Told You So” post.

By: phin

phin — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:40:28 +0000

The experience of the GOP’s VP candidate was being compared to the experience of the Dem’s POTUS candidate. You have to be smoking some serious crack if you believe that THIS argument helps Obama. The last poll out had I think 42% which believed that Palin (NOT McCain but friggin’ Palin) had sufficient experience to be POTUS compared to 45-46% who believed Obama had the necessary experience to be POTUS.

But by all means, keep bringin’ this up…

By: jakedahn

jakedahn — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:39:35 +0000

Love the video, she’s totally grilling the hell out of him.

By: Tyler Hayes

Tyler Hayes — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:32:40 +0000

Hah, I had a bunch of things ready to write, but after reading gerryf… priceless. He/she said everything I wanted to :)

By: gerryf

gerryf — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:54:35 +0000

Yeah, well, it makes perfect sense. If Campbell Brown can wipte the floor with one of your campaign point men, Lord knows what that hard hitting Larry King would do with McCain.

Good God, he’d shred him alive!

Did you see what Larry King did during that biting Tribute to Bernie Mac?

Or how about that scathing look into “Paparazzi vs. Hollywood Stars?”

Or his investigative piece on “Missing Toddler Mystery; Cults: Sordid Sex & Secrets?”

My God, what if Larry had asked McCain, “What the hell were you thinking on this Palin thing?” The man would have folded like a chair.