Vote McCain, before it’s too late
June 17th, 2008 at 02:13am Chuck Sweeny
If you’re the Republican Party or its standard-bearer John McCain, how do you beat Barack Obama?
More and more, it seems that the answer will be: Make him seem weird. That’s what’s been happening so far, and I’m pretty sure it’ll continue. After all, McCain lacks support among the GOP’s conservative core, because he’s simply not a conservative and has the voting record in the Senate to prove that. He needs those voters, though. But if he keeps pandering to the right, he can’t get the votes of moderate Republicans, independents, and disaffected Hillary supporters. He needs their votes, too.
What to do? Make the race a referendum on the safety of an old reliable. The Mc Cain camp won’t do this officially, of course; they’ll leave that to Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugth  and right wing 527 groups on the Internet. They’ll make McCain kindly “Grandpa Joe” who’s dealing with that strange new neighbor who moved in across the street. Uh oh! There goes the neighborhood. That, in coded language, is the GOP’s way of convincing people skittish about electing a black man to stay with the white guy, whatever you think of his policy positions.
What would be the consequences of turning the country over to the guy with the middle name of Hussein. I won’t be surprised if some 527Â comes up with a bumper sticker that is a play on Bernie Epton’s GOP mayoral campaign against Harold Washington in the 1983 Chicago election: Vote Epton, before it’s too late.
Only this time it will be, “Vote McCain, before it’s to late.”
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4 Comments Add your own
1. Right Of The Star Blog | June 17th, 2008 at 6:08 am
Chuck, I don’t listen to Limbaugh or Hannity, do you have links to any of these stories by them or from, “the Republican Party or it’s standard-bearer John McCain,” that make Obama seem weird?
Considering the Democratic 527’s have already taken the partisan divide in the political process to hateful, shallow, and bigoted propaganda levels in YouTube ads you may be right. The sad thing is that this ad tries to make personal partisanship cool and makes it seem acceptable to hate, shun, and segregate people based on their beliefs.
It not only makes McCain seem weird, it makes anyone who would support McCain seem weird!
Let’s hope the Republicans DON’T follow the Democrats tactic this time.
David
2. redrover | June 17th, 2008 at 6:56 am
When it comes to having “taken the partisan divide in the political process to hateful, shallow, and bigoted propaganda levels,” the Republicans are certainly not without sin in this matter.
Who can forget the Willie Horton ad in 1988
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC9j6Wfdq3o
But what else can you expect from a two-party tyranny controlled by corporate money and a national corporate media addicted to sleazy tabloid journalism?
3. Right Of The Star Blog | June 17th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Redrover, I agree and I did not say that the republicans were not without sin on the matter — but this new ad doesn’t just criticize a policy, it makes it clear that it is distasteful and evil to be of the opposite party, no matter who you are or what you do.
To your point, what wasn’t accurate in the Willie Horton ad? Is it the fact that it was a bad picture of him? Wasn’t that his mug shot (public record - may be the only picture they could get) and then his perp walk?
Dukakis did support the furlough program, Willie Horton did rape and kill his girlfriend while, as a convicted murder he was on furlough, AL GORE was the first person to bring up the furlough program in the campaign.
Dukakis is the candidate that said during the debates that even if his wife were raped and murdered he wouldn’t support the death penalty — something so very out of step with the voters of the time that Susan Estrich and Bill Clinton had prepared Dukakis for that very subject, he just didn’t stick to the answer.
So we have the Democrat 527 demonizing every single person of the opposite party versus the Republican 527 ad demonizing the policy that cost a lady her life and the governor that supported that policy.
There is a big difference that could have terrible repercussions for, not just political debate, but as the Democratic ad demonstrates, every aspect of life.
David
4. Sparky | October 6th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Obama is a fraud. He is muslim and has ties to the Saudi Royal Prince, but he wants us all to believe he’s “the guy next door”. He has been raised by Marxists and affiliated with terrorists and terrorist sympthizers.
When will people wake up and see what he really is. This isn’t a black/race issue, it’s a terrorist issue. Did Bush botch the war against terrorism so bad that people don’t care about it anymore??? They will use any means at their disposal to take down the “great satan”, as they call us.
Obama’s liberationist grooming and his muslim supporters have set the stage for him to take over and destroy us. Get a clue people, before it is too late.
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