"It's the direction of change, stupid"

[andym]

If you remember one quote, remember this:

What needs to be said about McCain and Palin:

Change is fine, but the direction of change is what is critical.
"Of course they're fine Americans, etc etc, but the problem is that they're fundamentally wrong about the economy, and wrong about how to deal with the world." Barack Obama and Joe Biden are right about the economy and how to deal with the world. You're not just electing leaders, you're electing policies and most importantly direction. Even a "good" leader can move America in the wrong direction. Look what Bush has done, and look how McCain and Palin want to move in the same direction (only more so). They say they want change, but it's superficial change, the underlying direction does not give America what it needs to remain the most powerful country as China rises in the East." When you don't have new ideas, sometimes even honest folk lie, that's what happening folks to John McCain." Obama/Biden want to move in the right direction, McCain/Palin want to move in the wrong direction

This is the kind of talk that we need to give in support of the Democratic ticket in the presence of undecided voters.

Otherwise you have problems like that discussed in this following article:
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For Working Moms, 'Flawed' Palin Is the Perfect Choice
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/09/11/ST2008091101260.html

Eight working mothers from the Virginia Run development in Centreville went together to the Palin-McCain rally yesterday because Sarah Palin is "just like us." This is something new. Nobody ever accused Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan of being just like us.

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She's just as flawed as we are," Tweddle said. "It's not the fact that she's a woman but the way she does it all. And let me tell you: There are more American parents with unwed pregnant teenaged children than American parents with Harvard grads. She's real."

For hours, I walked through the crowd talking to people, mostly women. Again and again, I heard variations on this idea: "She's more like us than Obama, McCain or any of the others," as Rupp put it. "She knows what we go through."

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Most people I spoke to readily conceded that Palin lacks experience with or knowledge of many important national and foreign issues. But, as Allison McGarvey, a teacher who lives in Stafford County, said, Palin is "a courageous woman, and what she doesn't know, she can learn quickly. Let's face it, no president knows all the issues. Anyway, I don't see how a candidate can pick one stand and just stick to it. The world situation changes every day. It's their moral and ethical background that's important."
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The argument should be there are a lot of people just like us, but if they want to take us in fundamentally the wrong direction that will make life worse for ourselves and our children then we should not elect them no matter how much we like them. There are other people like Obama/Biden who want to try solutions that try to address the problems that face us and move us in the right direction. It's the direction of change, stupid.

[Liberal Veteran]

1. Always respond to this line of "reasoning" with a question

"If you had a really complex medical problem that required a doctor, would you hire a flawed soccer mom who needs on the job training, or a Harvard educated doctor who is respected for his medical skills?"

When they say the latter, then you ask, "Then why wouldn't do the same for our country?"

[andym]

2. A good argument

But, the rejoinder will probably be something about a "regular person" like Reagan not being a brain surgeon, yet look how "great" he did. Now, this viewpoint can be successfully argued against, but your average non-partisan American will be hard to convince, even though there is ample proof of the damage he did to the economy, and environment.

That's why the direction argument is stronger.