Originally posted by: ayabe
Originally posted by: Genx87
Originally posted by: ayabe
Genx - I don't know how you can say the McCain owns on the issues, he's been running away from the issues since Obama locked up the nomination. He's even tried to hijack Change, with laughable results.
He loses with the voter on just about every issue, which is why we got stuck with Palin in the first place. He was running on I'm a POW and Maverick up until them, the former may be true, but people have seen through the latter.
He is proposing stay the course on just about everything we've had for 8 years, that's not winning on the issues, people don't want that or else GW would have a higher approval rating.
I didnt say he owns the issues. I said he could still win on the issues by talking about them. He closed the massive double digit lead Obama had in the summer by talking the issues. But post convention it is like his campaign lost their minds.
McCain would be up bigtime right now if he was running as the McCain of 2000, in fact I would say that it would have been over months ago. But in order to get the nomination he had to side with the luddites in the party.
Now he doesn't even know who he is anymore and seems to shift positions every single day seeing which gimmick he can try to pull, instead of being totally honest with the people who he wants to vote for him.
The Straight Talk has become alarmingly elliptical in nature.
The "Rovians" really need to get the boot after this election, they had their time, but people have outgrown it, and now we have really, serious and long-lasting problems to solve.
Without them I think McCain would be up, way up, just being himself. He wouldn't have picked Palin, wouldn't have lied in the attack ads, etc.