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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2008 => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on October 16, 2008, 08:42:48 AM
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Insurrection!: If McCain Won't Do It, We Will
—Ace
I've been told to stop grousing about McCain's self-defeating refusal to fight back on the main issue this election -- It's the economy, stupid! -- and do something constructive.
Well. That's not half bad advice. So here's a constructive post.
The insurrection has three elements:
1) Donate to 527s hitting this issue with TV ads in swing states.
2) Inform the RNC you want them to begin hitting this issue nonstop themselves, even at the expense of pro-McCain ads, and even against his wishes. I've got news for you: At this point, due to McCain's stubbornness, we face a very real chance of losing 50 House seats and even failing to hold on to forty Senate seats, resulting in a Democratic President with a Democratic filibuster-proof Senate. The RNC must hit the Democrats on this issue with every last dime they can raise.
3) Inform McCain that you have donated all money that may have gone to him to 527s willing to fight on this issue, and you'll donate your free time making calls on behalf of Congressional and Senatorial candidates rather than his ticket.
Will 2 or 3 work? Well, here's some bad news: the RNC is already considering abandoning McCain in favor of trying to save the Senate (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14549.html), and until McCain is comfortable addressing the only issue on voters' minds right now, maybe that's for the best.
Besides, any ad that blames Obama and the Democrats for the subprime disaster helps McCain, whether he understands economics enough to realize that or not.
As for three... doubtful. But maybe a concerted effort can convince him, just once, to listen to Republican voters on a crucial issue.
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If I had to guess... John McCain has always been fairly well-off. The son of an admiral isn't hurting. I don't know if he understands that "honor" and "integrity" are noble virtues but not really a priority for voters who just lost half their 401ks, must now pony up $10,000 per household to bail out a financial sector they had nothing at all to do with harming, and are actually worried they might lose their homes or jobs in the near future.
McCain is now the one dealing in the airy-fairy realm of vague slogans, whereas Barack Obama is the one communicating to the country on specific issues that are paramount to them.
Socialism is making its case while capitalism remains silent, as if ashamed to even speak.
Of course Barack Oama is winning. 90% of success is just showing up, and capitalism isn't showing up. Because McCain is too timid to fix the blame on the socialistic risk-transfer the Fannie and Freddie subprime mortgages represented.
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Socialism is making its case while capitalism remains silent, as if ashamed to even speak
If that's true, then it's a short lived silence, because the only way out of the current situation is capitalism and the freeing up of people to take risk with their own money.
I have no doubt that should BHO win, just like with Clinton, conservatives will rally as one and kick him upside the head. There's absolutely no reason to risk capital just to have it taken away from you and given to someone who is undeserving, and in general people recognize that as being unfair. If if happens to you one time, you might go "Hey! That's not right!" If it happens to you a second time, you might say "Alright!! Cut it out!!" But as some point, it may be the first, second, or third time, but at some point you're going to put an end to it one way or another. Short of BHO attempting to stage a military coop and force people at gunpoint to do what he wants, his ideas will be rejected by those who are the movers and shakers in America, that is the rugged-individualist in America, the people the libs can't control. IOW, BHO will either reject socialism and conform to capitalism or he's going to fail.
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If that's true, then it's a short lived silence, because the only way out of the current situation is capitalism and the freeing up of people to take risk with their own money.
I have no doubt that should BHO win, just like with Clinton, conservatives will rally as one and kick him upside the head. There's absolutely no reason to risk capital just to have it taken away from you and given to someone who is undeserving, and in general people recognize that as being unfair. If if happens to you one time, you might go "Hey! That's not right!" If it happens to you a second time, you might say "Alright!! Cut it out!!" But as some point, it may be the first, second, or third time, but at some point you're going to put an end to it one way or another. Short of BHO attempting to stage a military coop and force people at gunpoint to do what he wants, his ideas will be rejected by those who are the movers and shakers in America, that is the rugged-individualist in America, the people the libs can't control. IOW, BHO will either reject socialism and conform to capitalism or he's going to fail.
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He may fail but on the way down he'll appoint several hundred federal judges, re-impose the Fairness Doctrine, lose two wars, gut the military, raise your taxes, capitulate to the UN, stand idle as Russia, Venezueal, China and Iran rise up, impose Card Checks to allow unions to force open ballots who will then seed hundreds of millions to the DNC, use the FCC to punish enemies, take away your healthcare, take more money for his liberal schools, take more money to shore up SocSec.
It wil take 30 years to undo.
Let's save ourselves the 30 years.
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I have no doubt that should BHO win, just like with Clinton, conservatives will rally as one and kick him upside the head.
Still, it would be kind of nice if that happened before the first Tuesday in November instead of after.
On edit - sent a hundred bucks to "Let Freedom Ring" after looking at their killer ad. EXACTLY what needs to be said!
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Let's save ourselves the 30 years.
Here's hoping we can keep the Senate from going supermajority, because right now Hussein is looking WH and Congress is staying Dem. Other than voting, I've done my part. Just keep in mind, Clinton tried a bunch of crap the first 2 years with a Dem majority and didn't get far. While fractured now because McCain doesn't inspire a deer tick, we as conservatives are very good at mounting campaigns to stop what they try and send down the pipe, i.e., Hillary care. Even the Paulbots, few in number as they are, will be vocally against this socialist nonsense.
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