New York Magazine: Is Mudslinging the Only Way John McCain Can Win?

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The Low-Road Warrior
By John Heileman

... But Weaver, Murphy, and McKinnon are no longer guiding McCain. Instead, the motor behind his operation now is Steve Schmidt, the shaven-headed strategist who earned his bones running Karl Rove’s war room in 2004, Frenchifying and de-war-heroizing John Kerry. What Schmidt and his associates have apparently concluded is that McCain’s weaknesses—on the election’s most salient issues and as a candidate—are so pronounced and Obama’s vulnerabilities so glaring that the low road is their guy’s best, and maybe only, route to the White House. They’ve concluded, in other words, that even if McCain may not be able to win the election in any affirmative sense, he might still wind up behind the big desk if he and his people can strip the bark off Obama with sufficiently vicious force....

NY Magazine


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[BlooInBloo]

1. Yes...

Stay tuned next week for another episode of Simple Answers To Simple Questions.

[Cha]

4. These questions are

too easy.

[Cha]

2. Ye-ah..it is the only way

he thinks he can win. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure that out ..only karl rove.

[Frustratedlady]

3. Another thought

"that even if McCain may not be able to win the election in any affirmative sense"

Or through the manipulation of the actual votes/machines. They are already paring down the voter registrations.

[writes3000]

5. The more of these articles, the better. "McCain went there first. Obama had to attack back." n/t

[FrenchieCat]

8. This goes well with your analysis, hey?

[Lint Head]

6. Rove, the idiot in contempt of Congress, is running McDraino's

campaign. It's obvious. It's political suicide. But fascists will be fascists. Killing is the answer to all of the world's problems per the Re-Pubic-Rats own holy creed. :dem:

[babylonsister]

7. Rec'd. nt

[Triana]

9. Answer: YES. It's the only way any Republican has EVER won...

... mudslinging, cheating, pwning the lamestream media to do their bidding and help propel the mud, and by massive election fraud. Republicans have perfected their “winning” strategies - and NONE of them are based on winning based on superior governmental policy but rather by attacking their opponent with lies, mischaracterizations, and outright cheating, using the media and privately owned Republican-friendly voting machine and database companies to remove likely Democratic voters from the rolls and to switch the votes of a large chunks of those who are left. That elephant only knows a few tricks and they have used the same ones for years and perfected them quite well in the past 10-20.

[monmouth]

10. Fortunately, and to their peril, they under estimate us....n/t

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11. .