- grab everybody's attention
- present a seeming answer to a seemingly intractable problem
- suck in all those republicans who up 'til now wouldn't trust you as far at they could throw you
- resonate with every middle-american voter regardless of political stripe
- positively differentiate you from obama
- reduce the democrats to impotent, sputtering rage
- provide a coattail upon which every republican congressman or senator in a shaky district could coast their way to re-election
- take nothing more than sufficient cojones to put it out there and run with it.
what, pray tell, could this magic issue possibly be?
think about it for a few minutes, and because you're my readers and are therefore smart, it'll probably come to you--but if not, tune in tomorrow (or the next day or the day after that--hell, you know me), and i'll happily tell you.
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Hmmm...I'm guessing guttermorality is thihnking that McCain is going to have to play the populist to the elitist Obama and throw in just enough coded racism to get bubba to vote for him.
It's the Republican play book. But, I think the media is not going to give them a pass like they did with Kerry, with Gore, with....well, maybe they will get away with it.
Good to be back.
But does he really have to? Aren't there still enough 'old white men' in the South who just won't vote for a black man to make a difference?*
For what it's worth, I missed you, my Savage One.
*please don't any random reader make the mistake of thinking that *I* feel that way or think anyone else should. It's archaic thought, but I am from the South.
These days, a candidate can leave the dirty work to others...but that doesn't mean he's innocent.
The problem that McCain has is that he has a really tough environment for Republicans this election year.
A lot of political commentators are comparing this to 1980 -- when Republicans captured 12 Senate seats. And George W. Bush is even more unpopular than Jimmy Carter was running for re-election in 1980.
Unless McCain and the Republicans do something drastic and it pays off, this is really looking like a very bad year.
Judi...good to be back...and thanks for your shout out.
Populism isn't McCain's strong suit. Obama is a much better demagogue (my definition of a demagogue: a man who tries to sound as stupid as he thinks his audience is).
I'm guessing that our beloved MKF was McCain to hammer the issue of gas prices: make it cheaper for everybody to fill up the tank of the car. More drilling, fewer taxes on oil.
For what it's worth, my issue would be judges. If I were a McCain speech writer, his statement would be: "I will appoint judges who won't grant constitutional rights to noncitizen terrorists. Obama will let the ACLU, which believes that citizen criminals have the right to everything, write our anti-terror policies."
ah, hubbard, you snarky little bastard--we have a winner!
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