McCain: Out with the old, in with the old
What do you do when you’re a Republican in a terrible year for Republicans, and when fellow Republicans have been complaining for weeks that you haven’t found your voice against your opponent? Well you do a shake-up of course. And who do you bring in to be your new political director? Well a former senior advisor to one of the most disasterously missmanaged campaigns this season, of course!
Hopefully McCain doesn’t start mentioning 9/11 every other word now.
True, you’d think that all he needed to do was point out that the Dem’s are pretty incapable of anything of importance.
All he has to do is start hammering on oil and liberal policies.
Sorry but liberals in America cannot win a debate on their policies. They just can’t. That is why the democrats have hammered the war in Iraq non stop. Its why the immigration bill was shelved after a week so in Harry Reids words they could go back to pressing for resolutions on Iraq.
Iraq. Iraq. Iraq. That is their defining and winning issue and if Barak Obama is drawn into a debate on his social issues it will come to light that he wants to spend like 100 gabazillion dollars on social issues and it will be here we go again.
No, they can’t win YOU over on their policies RRRocks. Please remember that there are millions of people who see the world quite differently than you do.
I had that point hammered home to me in 2004 when, to my shock and awe, George Bush was reelected in spite of awe-inspiring incompetence and stupidity. Never ever asume that the blindingly obvious to you is obvious to everyone else.
I knew that some liberal would become offended at the obvious.
California the most liberal country in Ameria. Yes I meant to say country cause in this nation they are considered to be in their own time zone. Even in California the supreme courts decision to allow gay marriage is opposed by a majority of Californians.
What is it that Barak Obama and more specifically the Democratic party has been hammering since 2004? What one thing have they been hammering since 2006 in which they finally bashed the GOP over the head.
The WAR. Harry Reid last year could not wait to table the immigration fiasco so in his own words"they could get back to passing resolutions on Iraq."
They understand that when you start talking about social issues that those issues in and of themselves are not necessarily a bad thing in the publics consciousness but then comes that dat gummed idea of HOW do we fund them.
The GOP then bashes them unmercifully with HOW YOU GOING TO FUND THEM. TAXES. Right everyone gets to pay all their money to have stuff that makes poor people in Detroit happy.
I have to give up my summer vacation to the coast to help pay for a welfare mom in EAST LA. etc ad nauseum. When this gets hammered home time and again then it becomes a losing battle.
I personally would like to see less and less government and more and more people in this country become self reliant. Like in the old world in which you relied on family to give you a safety net…….not the government.
So while you are absolutely right that as the world races by the liberal position is picking up steam it is still not to the point where its a WINNING issue.
Your anger at my positions seem to be because I bash Obama. That is because he is the biggest nanny king out there. He wants to spend till we drop. Tax the rich and give the taxes he gets back to the poor. Redistribution of wealth………in effect. Nothings changed in my mind except whose name is on the door.
Right now we are giving tons of money to Iraqis or Afghanis. When Obama gets in power he wants to give tons of money to Iraqis and Afghanis and then give it to Americans too.
We AINT GOT THAT much money to give. But hell GWB spent us poor. Barak Obama might as well finish us off and while they are at it they refuse to drill for oil and blame that on someone else as well but what the hell. Only the rich need oil in their bizarre world.
Claudia my apologies. After reading my above post it seemed I was angry with you and I am not. I understand your position. I just am angry with the incessant tax and spend nation we have developed over the last 40 years.
I cant borrow every month to pay my bills. Why should our government be allowed to do that? The trouble is we ALL want to balance the budget it just seems the liberals want their candy and want the conservatives to give up their wars, guns and whatever. The conservatives want the liberals to give up their welfare and healthcare and whatever.
Everyone wants it. No one wants to sacrifice for it.
I am willing. Slash the Military. Bring them home from Germany, Korea, Japan, Iraq and Afghanistan. Let the terrorists have the middle east.
Im willing to raise taxes on corporations, drill for oil, raise taxes on the rich. But if we raise taxes I dont want to just give it back to the not so rich and continue on spending.
Unless we all realize that the spending frenzy is over and its now time to pay the bills this country will be the USSR in 10 years. WE are 25 trillion dollars in debt.
We used to own our own debt. In other words Americans bought bonds to fund our debt. No problem. We just answer to ourselves. Not any longer. Our debt is now staggering and we are turning to Japan, China and the world to fund our feeding frenzy.
WE HAVE TO STOP THIS. WE HAVE TOO. Or we are toast. The choice is ours but we will once again make the wrong choice because our brains lie with dogma of a party rather then with the reality of what is.
RRRocks, repetition will not prove your point, sorry. You simply give me a litany of reasons why YOU think liberal policies are bad, but no actual evidence that the country isn’t favorable to them. The fact is that control of the country has gone back and forth between democrats and republicans for years. Usually voters are simply voting for one party because the previous party screwed it up so badly they want to see if the other guy does it better REGARDLESS of actual policy positions.
I could easily point you to statistics that consistently show that a majority of Americans favor spending MORE money on the poor, that a majority favor environmental regulations even if that costs money, and that a majority don’t want to see Roe vs. Wade overturned.
I’m not angry at your position because you bash Obama. In fact, I’m not particularly angry, though it’s somewhat frustrating to see how you seem incapable from separating what YOU think is best from what the larger PUBLIC thinks is best.
I wrote before seeing your later comment RRRocks. I can understand why you have that vision, though I disagree on several points of it.
Look, the fact is, no matter what I’d like to think, that most Americans don’t want equal rights for gays. Hell, I’d be willing to wager that a large number aren’t too hot on interracial marriage, even if they’d never object to it out loud. I know I’m to the left of most Americans on a wide variety of social issues. I also know that most people will accept almost anything they think will keep prices and crime down. I’m fairly certain that a plurality are nowhere near as engaged in politics as you and I, regardless of policy "positions". I’ve spoken to both liberal and conservative non-poliholics. More than their beliefs, they are characterized by a simplistic understanding of the issues. They basically believe what their environment tells them. If they live in Alabama, it’s that godless homosexuals are the devil, and if they live in San Francisco, it’s that Bush supporting Alabamans are the devil.
The end result is that maybe it wouldn’t be such a bad idea to force a test before being allowed to vote…
Everyone has convinced themselves that the greatest issue facing America this election is the war in Iraq and foreign policy.
I 1 bazillion percent disagree.
Gasoline prices. Oil and our national debt are the biggests threats to our existence.
The sooner the Rich and the poor alike realize this the sooner we can return to a healthy country in which it might be possible to have universal health care and social nets and a strong but lean military.
Right now we are just being duped by both parties with their own agenda and a total lack of vision for what is just around the corner.
Why? POWER> put off tomorrow what you can do today if it means I can pad my pocketbook with more coins from the taxpayers and lobbyists.
Just because someone isn’t as interested in political policy as you, Claudia, doesn’t mean they have a simplistic (i.e. bad) understanding of politics. And I don’t think people need to pass a test to vote just because they don’t spend as much time on politics as you and RR.
Most people spend most of their time on things other than politics, not because they’re less intelligent but because they have other responsibilities. Conversely, just because most of the people who post here do have the time to spend on politics doesn’t make them smarter.
what policies? Their great strides at reducing the price of gas? or their preventing a housing crunch? How are they doing in protecting American jobs with declining Auto Sales? Outsourcing - anyone?
Be careful what you wish for, such a test may very well be the downfall of the Democrat so called ideals.