I Think I Finally Understand The Republican Campaign Strategy

[ThomWV]

This random hop from one mess to another that is the McCain-Palin campaign seems at first to be without strategy. Befuddled news casters and political pundits alike stare blank-faced at state maps showing the two spending their time in the brightest of red states when it is the rest of the nation they should be trying to capture. There just doesn't seem to be rhyme nor rhythm nor reason to it. But I think there is.

Having no thought-out policy or ethical standards upon which to base their campaign the McCain folks have resorted to imaginary issues. With this approach all you have to do is think up some near-impossible election related event, find even a single isolated example to give it substance, and then spring it on the public blaming its regretful outcome on Democrats. Blow it all out of proportion and hope the Democrats never saw it coming. The idea is not to discuss substantive matters on the public's mind but to blur the important issues with fire-bombing absurdities that easily capture the attention. Today's subject will be "Voter fraud", who knows what it will be tomorrow. The only thing important is that the Democrats are unprepared to immediately respond and it grab public attention.

[global1]

1. My Significant Other Keeps Saying That The Repugs Don't Want To Win And.....

are purposely throwing this race and letting the Dems win. She says that the next four years are going to be so impossible for someone to govern that the Repugs don't want to touch it with a 10 foot pole. She says that Bush screwed things up so much and the Repugs know it. She feels that even if the Dems try to put things back in place that the die was set by Bush to cause even more problems that we probably even don't realize now. Not continuing to want to be blamed if they would take the presidency - the Repugs are throwing it to the Dems so that in 2012 they can blame the Dems for screwing things up even more and retake the WH and realize Rove's dream of Repug dominance. She says that by 2012 the American public will forget about how bad Bush screwed things up - because the next 4 years the Repugs will pounce on the Dems and blame them for everything.

[Joiwind]

2. Let Barack do what he needs to do....

You Dems support him, elect some good people to the House and Senate, keep your more bloodthirsty elements away from vengeance and payback fantasies, and responsible Republicans will follow you. I live in a sky-blue Republican district. You can be sure that my certain-of-relection Congressmonster will be hearing from this registered Republican (and former donor) every time a crucial vote comes up and the yahoos start their ululating.

Screw these 23-percenter blow-hards. They think they ARE the Republican party now.

[Sinistrous]

3. Wanting to restore respect for the Constitution and adhering to the rule of law

hardly makes one "bloodthirsty".

Investigation, indictment, and prosecution of the cabal that has trampled our core values is an absolute necessity for the survival of the American ethos.

Moral relativism and political expediency are no longer operable criteria for determining the priorities of the next Congress.

[ThomWV]

4. Let me be one of the first to welcome you

It is good to see you here. I don't think its much of a matter of vengeance to demand that justice take its course and that existing law be enforced. I don't even ask them to go back very far in time. It is my understanding that in this state the Statute of Limitations for assault is 7 years. One would expect that an assault on the very fabric of our Government would enjoy at least a somewhat longer period.