Whoever is running McCain's campaign is retarded. The Republican base is pissed that McCain is not bringing up the Community Reinvestment Act and how the Dems blocked attempts to regulate FMae/FMac, even when it was clear something was wrong with them.
I read that the McCain campaign thinks that the argument to link the two is TOO complex and that it would turn off voters. Personally, I think going after the Ayers and Rezko linkage is even more complex and will do nothing to help him. In fact, my friends who are Democrat were shocked to learn of the CRA and now might vote Republican because of it.
Anyway, back to Obama. Even if he regularly has beers with Ayers, it's not like we expect Obama to blow up the Pentagon. Also, Ayers did this crap 30+ years ago. That's old news. No one gives a crap that he hangs with commies and terrorist A-holes! People who are already inclined to vote for Obama, will probably feel more justified for voting for him for just those same reasons.
What bothers me is that I keep hearing Biden and Obama slam the Republicans on the economy and blaming deregulation for causing this mess. While I won't blame just the Dems, because the Republicans have a hand in it too, McCain's populist bullshit response about greed in WallStreet is a lame argument that is going to lose him the election.
On the flip side to McCain's campaign being retarded, I've also heard the rumor that all this talk about going after Ayers and Rezko is secretly a ploy by McCain to pretend to attack Obama on this, while in fact attacking the Dems on their involvement in FMae/FMac. During the first debate and the VP debate, McCain and Plain never once mentioned the Community Reinvestment Act and how it drove local banks to become predatory lenders. Nor did he mention how the Bush Administration tried to reform it in 2003 or how McCain himself tried to reform it in 2005, but in both cases was blocked by the Democrats.
If you buy into his theme of country first and his promise to make famous people who add pork, etc... McCain had to hold his tongue until the bailout was passed before going on the attack (Unlike Pelosi). I noticed how the RNC finally ran a web ad linking the Dems to FM/FM right after the bailout was passed, and I found it affective. However, many in the base are fearful that McCain will disappoint us like he normally does and try to be bi-partisan. The thing about McCain's bi-partisanship credentials, is that he got that by attacking Republicans--that's why the press used to love him.
Now he's just taking his lumps and that's pissing off the base. If he doesn't change his strategy around soon, I'm going to organize as many republicans to vote 3rd party or vote Obama, so this jerk goes down in history as the next Bob Dole. In fact, I hope the vote is close (like 10 votes) and then I can say I personally screwed this guy.
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