McCain to Hit Reset Button in New Speech
By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in 2008 Election, McCainLater today, John McCain will unveil a new stump speech designed to hit the reset button on his campaign. Here’s an excerpt released to the press:
The national media has written us off. Sen. Obama is measuring the drapes and planning with Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Reid to raise taxes, increase spending, take away your right to vote by secret ballot in labor elections and concede defeat in Iraq. But they forgot to let you decide. My friends, we’ve got them just where we want them.
Yep, being down 5 to 10 points in the polls has always been the plan.
With only three weeks before the election. I think it’s probably too late to refocus the McCain campaign, especially since yet another shift in strategy will undoubtedly be used by Obama supporters as more proof that the Arizona senator is erratic. No amount of refocusing of strategy can erase the mistakes of the last month or take the voters’ minds off the economy.
We’ll see the full extent of this “refocusing†later today. But the excerpt doesn’t lead me to believe that McCain has hit on a magic strategy to resurrect his campaign.
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October 13th, 2008 at 9:51 am
He’s like Elmer Fudd. “We’ve got ‘em wight where we want ‘em” – that’s an old joke. I guess so is Elmer’s campaign.
October 13th, 2008 at 10:02 am
They were broadcasting a part of it live on CNN a little while ago (around 11:45 EST), and it didn’t seem like anything new, except he mentioned “our children” quite a bit. All in all, just more media/Democrat bashing and talking about how America is worth fighting for and so on.
October 13th, 2008 at 10:10 am
I agree Leapsecond. I watched the whole thing and, other than a fiery attitude and the quote you listed above (which was released ahead of the speech, somewhat diminishing its impact), there wasn’t anything new. Same ideas with the same phrasing.
Perhaps the rest of the rollout is later today.
Interestingly, and not surprisingly, the media has shown a lot of interest in the new quote. They’d like nothing better than a tighter race.
October 13th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Don’t you know it. They hate a blowout, just like Monday Night Football hates a blowout. It’s bad for the ratings.
October 13th, 2008 at 11:10 am
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October 13th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
McCain hoped to harness an ugly, slavering beast comprised of far-right paranoia, hatred, fear, prejudice, and ignorance, and ride it to victory, but now he is starting realize that many Americans dislike his substitution of slander for an actual discussion of the issues.
His zig-zagging on slandering Obama is just one more example of his increasingly erratic behavior and poor judgment, and yet more proof that he has completely lost his moral center–the result of selling his soul to the Karl Rove faction of the Republican party. He is retracting some of his slanders, not because he has repented of them, but because he sees that they have backfired by alienating the undecided voters that he needs if he is to have any hope of winning.
McCain’s claim to be a ‘maverick’ are absurd-he has voted with Bush 90% of the time, has over 80 lobbyists on his staff, and has elected to veer to the far right in his campaign, to the point of taking advice from Karl Rove. A better description would indeed be erratic, as he claims Obama would raise taxes more than he would one moment, and then the next moment comes up his very own $300,000,000 pork-barrel give-away program to people who borrowed money they couldn’t possibly pay back.
If you are enjoying the meltdown of the banking system and the Dow at 9000, you’ll love a McCain Presidency–McCain was right there with Bush deregulating the banks and freeing them from the constraints that previously prevented this kind of greed-driven disaster.