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Campaign Change #1- Stop Being an Idiot

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The Politico reports trouble within the McCain camp:

Amid growing internal concern about poor fundraising and the direction of his presidential campaign, Sen. John McCain’s top advisers bluntly told backers on Tuesday of plans to overhaul the campaign and delay its formal announcement until after a major speech on Iraq.

“This is clearly a moment in the campaign that says, ‘Hello? Wake up!’ ” finance chairman Tom Loeffler said in a telephone interview. “It’s not a time to jog anymore. It’s a time to sprint in the fundraising efforts. We have learned the political fundraising realities of 2007, and we are making the proper adjustments.”

Since it is not surprising that the Straight Talk Express, with their avowed hatred of monies used for political purposes, is having difficulties understanding the intracies of campaign fundraising, the two rules seem to be:

1.) Raise lots
2.) Raise more than your opponents

However, the real problems seem to arise when you have no message, are thought to be little more than a front man for some of the worst of this administration’s policies, have alienated EVERY portion of the Republican base, and are the fodder for late night jokes and derided publicly by Iraqi merchants for your laughable assertions about the safety of Iraq. If all that straight talk would lead to any informed thinking, the next public message from John McCain would be “I quit.”

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  1. 1.

    DougJ

    Meanwhile, there’s some sanity from Romney on milestones and timetables. Why isn’t this guy doing better in their polls? He’s the only one of the crew that isn’t a raving lunatic.

    I know, I know, that one answers itself.

  7. 7.

    Hyperion

    from the article:

    The latest massacre of Iraqi children came as 21 Shia market workers were ambushed, bound and shot dead north of the capital. The victims came from the Baghdad market visited the previous day by John McCain, the US presidential candidate, who said that an American security plan in the capital was starting to show signs of progress.

    i don’t see how that equals:

    It seems that 21 Iraqis from his Photo Op were murdered in response.

    i’m referring to the phrase “in response”. why not stick with facts as stated?

  8. 8.

    Tsulagi

    Be bold, stay the course, McCain. Maybe at your next press conference show some more of the brilliance that has been the hallmark of Bush Republicans leadership. Above your speaking podium have a huge banner saying Stroll Accomplished.

  9. 9.

    Tsulagi

    Meanwhile, there’s some sanity from Romney

    Yeah, right. Romney is Republican silly putty with hair. He molds into any shape you want. You have a strong position? Put it in newsprint, press Romney on it, and it’s his too.

  10. 10.

    DougJ

    Hey, I don’t like Romney, I’m not voting for any of them. But do they have to always support the most visibly insane of their candidates?

  11. 11.

    Pb

    Hyperion,

    What’s your beef here–is the question:

    (a) whether the marketplace was attacked as a result of McCain’s visit the previous day, as the merchants on the ground were predicting at the time:

    Several merchants said Monday that the Americans’ visit may have only made the market a more inviting target for insurgents.

    “Every time the government announces anything – that the electricity is good or the water supply is good – the insurgents come to attack it immediately,” said Abu Samer, 49, who would give only his nickname out of concern for his safety.

    Or:

    (b) whether that’s just to be expected?

    Kadhoury said he had lost more than $2,000 worth of merchandise in the triple bombing in February. “I was hit in the head and back with shrapnel,” he recalled.

    “Everybody complained to them,” recalled Ali Youssef, 39, who sells glassware from a sidewalk stand down the block from Kadhoury. “We told them we were harmed.”

    He and other merchants used to keep their shops open until dusk, but with the falloff in customers as a result of the attacks, and a nightly curfew, most shop owners close their businesses in the early afternoon.

    “This area here is very dangerous,” continued Youssef, who lost his shop in the February attack. “They cannot secure it.”

    I’d say that of the two, (a) is probably better for McCain’s Iraq argument, although judging from that market’s past history, there’s probably some of (b) there as well.

  12. 12.

    Walker

    Hyperion is complaining about an implied causality where none has been established (e.g. that the killings were in response to the photo op as opposed to some other reason). While there may be some evidence for this (as in the quote above), it is still not definitely established. No group has claimed responsibility this yet, so motive is as of yet unclear.

    It is hard for us to take the rational though highground against logic-impaired wignuts if we do not exercise proper reasoning.

  13. 13.

    Captain Comeback

    McCain is irrelevant. He has no momentum, and worse, he is joined by the hip to the Iraq War. It’s unlikely to go well in the next 2 years, so it is unlikely that McCain will look good supporting it still. I think the next month will tell if McCain can get back into the race with any vital momentum.

  14. 14.

    PatD

    John McCain is suffering mightily these days. What began as a simple case of burning ambition has mutated into a severe case of “Oval office envy”. Now, apparently, it has metastasized to every fiber of his being. In an attempt to give in to the “disease” he has had the spin doctors surgically remove every last shred of common sense and dignity. Outpatient therapy will consist of excessive pandering sessions to any and all far right groups who claim a constituency in the “base”. By all accounts his prognosis is bleak.

  15. 15.

    ThymeZone

    McCain is finished.

    Fred Thompson is the new Golden Boy. Better start paying attention to him.

    Rudy’s past is going to sink what remains of his “campaign.”

    Brownback? Huckabee? Hello?

    Romney? Unless we commit suicide and nominate Hillary, Romney cannot be elected president. Mormonism is just too big a collection of straight lines. Nothing but the Hildabeast can overcome that.

    Thompson’s Hollywood connections and his child bride are gonna play poorly with the Dobsonites, who, as you know, are opposed to both entertainment and sexual gratification of any kind.

    All the Dems have to do is nominate a man, and they win.

  16. 16.

    HyperIon

    Walker Says:

    Hyperion is complaining about an implied causality where none has been established (e.g. that the killings were in response to the photo op as opposed to some other reason).

    i’m thinking you must do well on reading comprehension tests.
    and the critical thinking ones, too.

  18. 18.

    craigie

    Hyperion is complaining about an implied causality where none has been established (e.g. that the killings were in response to the photo op as opposed to some other reason).

    Thank dog for small victories, eh?

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