Another brilliant GOP campaign move?

[babylonsister]

http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/11/another_brilliant_gop_campaign.php

Another brilliant GOP campaign move?
James Fallows

03 Nov 2008 05:10 pm


I am away from a computer most of the time now*. But there's a TV droning in the background, which for the last two hours has been on MSNBC.

During that period, I have seen at least three, maybe four, times a voice-of-doom style TV spot about Barack Obama and Rev. Wright. It opens with a dark-visaged grainy picture of Obama, cuts to Wright's famous "not God bless America, but God damn America!" speech (with the "damn" bleeped out), and ends with bold words on the screen saying something like: Barack Obama. RADICAL. RISKY. General aura of the ad Willie Horton-ish. A group called GOPTrust.org takes the responsibility.

Brilliant move! On the last day of the campaign, using money for a saturation ad campaign (a) in California, no one's idea of a swing state; (b) on MSNBC, with no one's idea of an "undecided" audience; and (c) on a theme that the candidate himself has theoretically forsworn, therefore probably building up as much extra resentment among the California/MSNBC viewers as it does enthusiasm among the GOP base.

Not for the first time during this campaign, I've wondered whether some of McCain's "brains trust" actually are moles trying to make sure he goes down hard. (Previous occasions for wonder: the "suspend the campaign" gambit, the "angry old man" debate-prep strategy, the Steve Schmidt radio interview, the McCain SNL cameo, and, we've got to say it, the Palin choice.)

As skillful as the Obama team has been in its two-year campaign, McCain and his team have been that incompetent and ineffective. Any Republican candidate this year would have been dealt a bad hand. It is remarkable that McCain has misplayed every single card.
___
* At a health-care facility where I am on family business. Now, signing off again.

[AtomicKitten]

1. McSame must have whiplash from his flip-flopping.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. McCain is driving his campaign

[mrcheerful]

3. To be honest this has been the way the GOP has ran campaigns

Since Nixon. The same old lets not really talk about what we are going to do on the issues, unless its non issues like abortion, gays or anything that keeps the american minds off their living conditions. Then will will lie, slander and half truth everything about the other guy to make him look like the worst inapt person to ever run for office.

It has worked for them time after time when the economy was stable or stablizing from the efforts of democrats. The problem with that tactic is 1 the lies get bigger each election cycle and when the economy fails to the point where people on main street are struggling to live, then the majority will vote democratic.

Btw, it's never the party's base that decide who is elected, its Joe the independent voter who takes neither side that decides elections, When they are doing good in their lives they vote puke, when they are hurting and have more bills then play money they vote democratic.

So tommorow I will wake up, drink a few cups of coffee, then head out to vote. Come home check with DU off and on throughout the day, avoid watching any of the election shows go to bed and hope that Joe the fence sitter is hurting enough to vote pukes out.

[babylonsister]

4. You won't be staying up to see who wins?

You're a stronger person than I am. There's no way I couldn't not watch this!

[mrcheerful]

5. LOL, after endless nights as a young child sleepless from hearing that JFK was

Murdered in Dallas and seeing the news reports. After seeing MLK walking to Selma with police dogs nipping at their heels. After hearing about the 3 young men being murdered for trying to insure the voting rights of others they didn't know. Watching the endless Nam war, Kent state, the 68/69 race riots, the murder of Bobby K, the Chicago police riots at the democratic convention, Water gate, the rise of Reagan and the neo cons, 2 stolen elections. I think I have had my fill of watching history unfold.

So I will wait and see what the fates will bring on wednesday morning, I just don't think I want to get my hopes up and then feel the let down I felt in 2000/2004 going to bed thinking my guy won only to find out he didn't, I am getting to old for it. I will do my part and vote, but I'm not going to wacth the spin spin spin of MSM, if anything I'll watch Stewart and Colbret, if my wanting to see history over rides my need for peace.