"We have a route.... to 270 [electoral votes]" -- Mark Salter, McCain's longtime aide who co-wrote his memoirs.
You ready for ANOTHER STOLEN ELECTION, AmeriKa?
"McCain battles on others' terms" by Sasha Issenberg, Globe Staff | November 3, 2008
PETERBOROUGH, N.H. - Over the weekend, McCain trudged through hockey rinks, airport hangars, and a moving-truck loading dock, offering himself up as the safer choice for voters uneasy about Democratic nominee Barack Obama.
When McCain appears alongside his running mate, Sarah Palin, the unprovoked chants of "Sarah!" begin long before she takes the podium, and a small exodus of attendees usually starts before McCain gets there. And it often seems that the enthusiasm at his rallies comes from sentiments provoked by his rival. In Virginia on Saturday, a handmade sign just over McCain's shoulder declared "The Obamanation Stops Here."
That is the sign of a LOSER!!!
At the end of his losing 2000 primary campaign, McCain said the experience had established a "McCain Majority," rich in support from Democrats and independents and ready to transcend the partisan divide he said had crippled American politics. But now, McCain is casting himself in more partisan terms, warning of one-party rule and stressing that he alone could serve as a counterbalance to a Democratic-led Congress.
Ummm, I DIDN'T SEE YOU CAMPAIGNING for DEMS in 2004 and 2006, Johnny, when YOUR PARTY had BOTH BRANCHES, so FUCK OFF, you FOSSILIZED piece of FECES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not that it REALLY MATTERS!! I keep wondering where those BLOCKING DemocraPs were the WHOLE TIME REPUGS legislated TYRANNY during that time! And then, what did Dems do when we gave them the power? FUNDED the WARS and gave us MORE TYRANNY in the form of SPYING and BAILOUTS!!!!
For the first time in his career, McCain's rallies thrum with ideological fervor from within his party's conservative base, but he seems to engender little curiosity outside it. Meanwhile, a number of prominent Republican moderates who were once among McCain's biggest boosters - led by Colin Powell - have endorsed Obama.
But we have a path!
"Eight years ago, he had to work to get the Republicans on board because they were not so fond of John McCain," said Steve Duprey, a McCain friend who served as chairman of the New Hampshire Republican party in 2000. Now they're all here and he's reaching out to independents."
FIXING the NARRATIVE to a SUCCESSFUL STEAL!!
As a senator, McCain has always plucked issues from the margins - campaign finance, tobacco regulation, earmarks, immigration reform - trusting his charisma to assemble national constituencies and legislative coalitions around each. Yet as his party's nominee, McCain has offered himself up not as a builder of new alliances but a one-man Republican roadblock against the excesses of "the old liberal left tax-and-spend" Democrats, as he put it on Saturday at a campaign stop.
Pffffffffffttt! We have HAD-ENOUGH of BUSH!!!
"We're running as a check-and-balance guy," said his key adviser, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
Well, WHERE YOU BEEN, Graham? AWOL the last six years?
McCain has to rely on such pragmatic arguments - and in the process reinforce partisanship - because he is hampered by the historical moment rather than empowered by it, aides acknowledge. Graham, who joined McCain in defying many conservatives by supporting the immigration bill, recently indicated that McCain's inability to convince Hispanics of his independence from the party could cost him crucial western states he needs to win the election. "Wouldn't that be sad?" Graham asked.
I always wondered how a PRO-AMNESTY McCain "WON" the nomination. And NO, Lindsay, it would be a JOY!!!
After his pick of Palin, aides say McCain had begun to unmoor himself from Bush-era Republicanism, but that the financial troubles experienced in September jerked him back in place. "If Lehman [Brothers] and the economy hadn't happened, we'd still be up seven [percentage points] and you wouldn't be asking these questions," Republican Senator Mel Martinez of Florida told reporters, wondering why McCain was struggling in traditionally Republican states.
Yeah, sure BLAME it on the ECONOMY and not your BANKRUPT PARTY of FASCISTAS!!!!
His aides still believe they are making a coherent bid for the Republican base, and that their tax-and-spend depiction of Obama will pull aboard enough independent and centrist support to tip the election to McCain.
We HAVE a ROUTE, Houston!!!
"Obama has more routes to 270 [electoral votes] than we have, and we're cognizant of it, but we have a route," said Mark Salter, McCain's longtime aide who co-wrote his memoirs.
After a town hall meeting three weeks ago in Lakeville, Minn., when McCain was booed by supporters for telling them they should not be "scared" of Obama, his campaign stopped scheduling events at which McCain would take questions from the crowd.
And WHERE was the MSM? Fuck POLITICS and its SHIT-STINKING MANIPULATIONS!!!
They made an exception last night in Peterborough, where he held a town hall forum and took questions on topics such as the financial crisis and immigration. Months earlier, McCain's lead strategist, Steve Schmidt, had similarly prevailed upon McCain to jettison his "Straight Talk Express" bus sessions with the media he once celebrated as his "base."
That bus broke down a ways back!!!
"The lesson we've all learned is that a free-flowing exchange of ideas can also take us off-message," said Duprey. "He's probably on the phone with more different people over the course of a day than any candidate I've ever seen. That's what he does in lieu of hanging out with his former 'base.' "
Translation: DEMOCRACY keeps us from HUCKING SHIT!!!!
Indeed, much of McCain's campaign - heavy on derision of Obama's star-powered idealism - explicitly repudiates the political style that made him such a distinctive national figure.
Hypocrite McCain!!!
Before McCain appeared on stage at a Minnesota airport hangar in September, US Representative Michelle Bachmann mocked Obama for the self-awareness that led him to write two autobiographies, the same number that McCain has authored. "Because one wasn't enough?" she sneered.
Isn't she the one that... uh-huh! Why you quoting her, MSM?
When McCain's top political aides conferred by phone on Friday, they boasted that their candidate continued to maintain his advantage in polling over the unpopular "generic Republican." Yet they suggested that he had little choice but to close out his campaign by acting like one. "Taxes and spending," campaign manager Rick Davis said. "There's nothing better to end a race on in New Hampshire." --more--"
Here is McCain's route, readers:
ME: Obama
NH: McCain
VT: Obama
MA: Obama
CT: Obama
RI: Obama
NY: Obama
NJ: Obama
DE: Obama
MD: Obama
DC: Obama
WV: McCain
NC: McCain
SC: McCain
GA: McCain
AL: McCain
MS: McCain
LA: McCain
AR: McCain
TN: McCain
KY: McCain
MI: Obama
WI: Obama
MN: Obama
IA: Obama
IL: Obama
IN: McCain
MO: McCain
ND: McCain
SD: McCain
NE: McCain
KS: McCain
OK: McCain
TX: McCain
MT: McCain
WY: McCain
ID: McCain
UT: McCain
WA: Obama
OR: Obama
CA: Obama
AK: McCain
HI: Obama
NV: Obama
AZ: McCain
CO: Obama
NM: Obama
VA: Obama
PA: McCain
OH: McCain
FL: McCain
Adjust your map accordingly, readers.
How you going to feel, America?
Now look at What the Electoral Map Looks Like in a Fair Election
Also see:
Stolen Elections: 2000
Stolen Elections: 2004
Stolen Elections: 2006
How to Rig the 2008 Presidential Election
Election Poll Update
AP Prepares Election Theft Narrative
The AmeriKam MSM Vote-Rigging Continues
