McCain Camp Admits They Have No Choice
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, McCain
“It’s a dangerous road, but we have no choice. If we keep talking about the economic crisis, we’re going to lose.”
- McCain strategist in the NY Daily News
Here’s more…
A top McCain adviser signaled last week that the campaign intends to “turn the page” from economic issues — which polls show have staked Obama to a significant lead — and ramp up attacks on Obama as an inexperienced ultraliberal. [...]McCain’s course correction reflects a growing case of nerves within his high command as the electoral map has shifted significantly in Obama’s favor in the past two weeks.
As mentioned before, I really don’t think this will work because Obama is now responding with McCain’s embarrassing Keating Five mistake and can claim that McCain started this smear war.
One thing’s for sure…tomorrow’s debate is going to be VERY interesting.
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October 6th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Yeah… the economy is the number one issue on people’s minds, so instead of taking maverick positions that people can identify with, you decide to attack your opponent’s character. Brilliant.
October 6th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Now McCain will sink even lower. He stepped into a mess of his own doing. It is his ACTIONS that will be on display, not the action of acquaintences. Enjoy the rebuttal Senator McCain, you are about to be in a fight holding a knife, while your opponent you started a fight with has brought a gun.
October 6th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Why on earth are they forcasting this move? Is there some advantage that I can’t see? It seems to me that by telling the world you want to “turn the page from the economy” to focus on character (Obama’s), that you’re showing your disengenuous hand. Isn’t it giving the Obama camp an enormous amount of amunition? McCain admits that he can’t win on the economy – and he’s resorting to mud-slinging. Seriously, are these guys tactical bumblers, or am I missing something?
October 6th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Um, what happened to a respectable campaign?
Maybe we should just let chipper Sarah Palin and fumin’ Joe Biden battle it out in a cage match?
October 6th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Anybody who claims that the mudslinging between McCain and Obama is somehow equivalent is being dishonest.
It’s like saying that Joe Biden and Sarah Palin gave equivalent performances at the VP debate.
McCain’s campaign is all about swift-boating-style, character assassination.
Finally, the Obama campaign mentions a real scandal, the Keating 5, with real consequences. Anybody can Google the phrase to find out exactly what happened. And yet, because of McCain’s proud leadership of ‘deregulation,’ we see another financial fiasco. With his campaign manager having received lobbying money from Freddie Mac for the past 2 years for doing NOTHING. What was the money for, access?
I am surprised that Dems haven’t been trumpeting that yet. They should.
The McCain campaign is so embarrassing, he makes Bush look presidential.
How pathetic is that?
October 6th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Other campaigns have dove deep into the mud before, but were never this upfront about what they were doing. It’s just another example of Maverick McCain telling Washington the ugly truths that no one else will speak.
Or maybe it’s just a victimization plea, to make them feel better about the fact that they’re continuing to destroy any integrity left in their campaign. We didn’t want it to be this way! We had no choice!
October 6th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
“With his campaign manager having received lobbying money from Freddie Mac for the past 2 years for doing NOTHING. What was the money for, access?
I am surprised that Dems haven’t been trumpeting that yet. They should. ”
Absolutely. It needs to be in ads, stump speeches, and possibly brought up at the debate. If the head of Obama’s campaign manager had been receiving payoffs from Freddie Mac for the last two years, McCain would publicly demand that he step down from his position day after day after day…