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To: JohnM who wrote (89828)10/13/2008 12:42:09 PM
From: Steve Lokness  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 542267
 
John;

Maybe the situation is hopeless — and if it is, then nothing McCain or his campaign does matters.

Wouldn't agree with that statement of Ktistol's - unless the absolute only measure is winning and losing. One reason to change is that there are an awful lot of other elections out there in our land. Another reason to change is if you care in America and want to start us on a healing path. And finally there is the image McCain wants to be remembered for. Does he really only want to be remembered as a mean spirited old man?

Kristol is a nut case.
I think many of them are reasonable. Obama’s relationship to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is, I believe, a legitimate issue.

As he says out of one side of his mouth that McCain needs to drop the negative crap, Kristol nevertheless brings up the negative dragging it out from the other side of his mouth in almost the same sentence.

steve



To: JohnM who wrote (89828)10/13/2008 1:48:39 PM
From: ChinuSFO  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 542267
 
If he fires Schmitt so late in the game, then I think it reinforces his image as someone who is unsteady and reactionary.



To: JohnM who wrote (89828)10/13/2008 2:08:32 PM
From: Sam  Respond to of 542267
 
re: kristol's "Fire the Campaign"

So now the boy genius Bill Kristol wants McCain to "tell the truth." And "At Wednesday night’s debate at Hofstra, McCain might want to volunteer a mild mea culpa about the extent to which the presidential race has degenerated into a shouting match."

This is the same guy who just a couple of weeks ago was urging McCain to go negative and tear down Obama's positives.

What an ass he is....



To: JohnM who wrote (89828)10/13/2008 5:50:18 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 542267
 
John -

Kristol's advice to the McCain campaign fails to consider two things.

1) Making such a radical change this late in the game would seem desperate and erratic. He can't just say, "Oh, I've been too negative and nasty, but for the next three weeks I'm going to be good." Or rather, he can say it, but very few people would see such a statement as being sincere.

2) McCain would still be on the wrong side of the issues most Americans care about.

- Allen