What McCain needs to do tonight
The Sarah Palin pick has given John McCain permission to say what he wants in policy terms tonight. The base is fired up and ready to go thank to both the media assault on Palin and her social and fiscal conservative credentials and even if McCain deviates from conservative orthodoxy they aren’t going to stay home in November.
McCain should take this opportunity to present himself to the country at large as a bold reformer interested in what works not what is ideologically correct. Michael Gerson, Bush’s former speechwriters, observation that the test of McCain’s speech is if at the end of it voters can say “I have never heard that from a Republican before” is essentially correct.
There also should be new ideas in the speech. If McCain is going to keep his agenda in the spotlight for more than one night, it is going have to be big enough to demand further discussion.
With the Palin pick, the McCain campaign moved the debate from experience versus change to who could deliver the right kind of change. McCain has to show that he is offering real change, to borrow a phrase, change you can believe in.
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London Calling
September 4th, 2008 11:50pm"The World A better place when its upside down"....
I find it rather confusing, or maybe my world is upside down...
The Democrats call the working class, Middle class, whatever that means to the American working class, maybe they are not worthy of falling into any class compared to our view of the class system here in the UK and as Obama stated in his speech any wage below $150000 is a low wage earner, who he says will pay less tax if he becomes president, therefore that must mean our low pay earners in the UK must be slaves and our middle earners are the deck hands.
The American people meanwhile want to get rid of the Bush clan as much as we want to get rid of the Brown clan, except one is Labour and the other Conservative and both took our countries to War based on a lie, raped Liberty and squandered pot loads of money to the their wind of change???
I don’t need therapy after all, thank God, the worlds a better place when its upside down...:0
C Powell
September 4th, 2008 11:56pmWhy are you pushing McCain? The Republicans aren't Tories. We need a rather more cool analysis of US politics than this "Palin is a new Thatcher" nonsense and a greater focus on what is in the UK's interests. We've had quite enough of blindly following whatever the US does, regardless, thank you.
Joe Camel
September 5th, 2008 12:13amGuess who just said this. Clue: It’s a very prominent U.S. politician currently engaged in an election campaign:
“I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated. I’ve already said it’s succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.”
Of course, when he says “nobody anticipated,” what he really means is nobody except George W. Bush, Gen. Petraeus, and everybody else actually working to make it succeed.
More here:
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/04/obama-surge-succeeded-beyond-wildest-dreams/
Hysteria
September 6th, 2008 3:07pmJoe - I heard the same comment live and nearly fell of my chair - and yet again no-one in the mainstream media has picked up on it - the man really is a hollow shell - worse than dangerous
Watched him last night in a town-hall - not bad at walking around and looking cool - but there are no coherent thoughts - truly amazing!