McCain's Debate Performance Against Obama Won't Matter
My Thomas Jefferson Street colleague Robert says:
McCain needs to so dominate Obama that the electorate wonders how it could ever have considered the junior senator from Illinois presidential. Preferably Obama would either be left a blubbering mass or simply withdraw from the election in his closing statement.
Quite frankly that's too generous. I do not think there's a thing McCain could do in the third debate to reverse his descending fortunes. No matter which way he turns, he gets whacked. When he's nice, he gets whacked by supporters for being too nice. When he goes negative, his numbers go down.
Regaining McCain's lead is beyond his or his handlers' control at the point. It's in fate's hands. If there's an overwhelming bounce in the economy and the deregulation crowd lays claim to the moral high ground, he could bounce back. If there's a huge terrorist incident somewhere (which we all hope will not take place) and Americans' focus shifts to the international front, he could regain ground. But a stellar performance in the third debate? I doubt it!
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Big Daddy State
Republican voters seem to be a fearful bunch. The GOP's messageboard boosters repetitiously insist that only their candidate can keep the country safe. It is as if they are recreating their childhood, when Daddy would always be there to protect them against the boogey man or the mean kid on the playground. (Oh, yeah? My Dad's bigger than your dad!) Only now instead of their real fathers, they look to their surrogate father, big daddy McCain, to protect them against the new national boogey man, Osama bin Laden. Come to think of it, perhaps that's why Osama bin Laden hasn't been captured yet. It's because he is serving a purpose: to scare Americans into voting for their Republican protectors.
the debate
when you think about it obama should win he wants to help all of the old people out her. if yo have any family in iraq they wont come home and probaly will die if mccain is president. but if you vote obama you will have your family memebers safe at your side. like above mccain says if he doesnet win he nows how to get bin laudin to blow this popscikle stand up.
MNotaro
Information is knowledge and your kids know it. Each generation is supposed to grow beyond the last; to question, learn, gain personal judgement. They take all sources in, decide what they feel is worth believing in, and go with it. They are growing away from Religion in droves, and realize the freedom that comes with finding your own perspectives..rather than the ones their "folks" tell them they should believe. They're "mavericks" to be sure, and "you betcha" they can smell BS a mile away..Liberal or not. At least they're interested, you should be thankful.
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