MCCAIN GOES GREEN, OBAMA GOES GOD, GOP NOT IN TROUBLE
A quick trip to the Drudge Report Wednesday yielded something very interesting about the upcoming presidential general election showdown between Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama.
At the top of the page, Drudge had Obama’s new Kentucky ad featuring him standing at a pulpit in a Southern Baptist church — I’m told that the photo was taken in South Carolina and that this state’s “Queen Blogger” Laurin Manning, now working for the Illinois senator, put the ad together — with the statement “My faith teaches me that I can sit in church and pray all I want. But I won’t be fulfilling God’s Will unless I go out and do the Lord’s work.”
It is an obvious play at the state’s plethora of Christian conservatives as well as an attempt to bury the radical Rev. Wright story, but if I didn’t know otherwise, I would have believed this was a Republican ad. And In Kentucky where I hear they have just learned about the wonders of this new-fangled “telephone” invention, that could very well sell.
At the opposite — or, I guess not opposite — end of the spectrum, McCain also had an ad running on Drudge. His spot however, touted a brand new line of “Eco-Friendly” campaign paraphernalia. Again, not in any way a traditional message for a Republican.
This all ties in to the hasty hypothesizing that has spread through the South Carolina blogosphere in the last 24 hours that the Democratic upset in Mississippi’s solidly-conservative 1st Congressional District indicates doom for McCain and the Republican Party.
But former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee put it best when he said, “[Voters are] not buying Kellogg’s, they’re buying Frosted Flakes.” Although, he could have used Smart Start or something else instead of Frosted Flakes.
The point is that Mississippi voters didn’t reject Greg Davis because he was a Republican, they rejected him because he was a bad candidate and he was up against a well-liked opponent. It really is that simple.
There’s no grand anti-GOP Revolution in the works here. The bad Republicans will lose and the good Republicans will be fine — here and elsewhere.
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“It is an obvious play at the state’s plethora of Christian conservatives as well as an attempt to bury the radical Rev. Wright story, but if I didn’t know otherwise, I would have believed this was a Republican ad.”
Just as if I didn’t know better, I would have believed McCain’s speech the other day on Global warming came straight off the presses of the DNC.
What a DEPRESSING twosome we have to choose from in this election. Totally, effing depressing.
I’ll tell you this - if McCain cannot beat Obama in November with his moves to the left and complete selling out of conservative principles, then the entire RNC leadership at the state and national levels should have their asses fired on the spot for foisting this guy upon us. It’s nauseating to hear to him sound just like a Democrat.
If you listen to the rhetoric, there is NO difference in either party these days.
I would rather sleep with Hillary than vote for McCain.
In this post: Adam impersonates Baghdad Bob.
That district was +18 for Bush in 2000, and +24 for Bush in 2004. Now, that district elected a Democrat by 8 points.
The “people vote for good candidates” rationalization is weak; we all know the vast majority of voters at best make a decision based on a letter, and at worst based on a color. Another counter point to this argument is they voted for Bush in 2004 by +24 points.
Eric’s comment takes the prize!
I’m with the GOP on this one… the GOP brand is dead. Bush et al killed it off. And as Joe said, no one is happy with the choices except the party leaders and the candidates themselves.
I’m seeing lots of write in’s in my crystal ball……
“In this post: Adam impersonates Baghdad Bob.”
Yes he does.
True conservative Republicans are the ones rejecting these new-age elitist, McCain-like, moderate-to-liberal Republicans who are “leading” the party these days. You know, the ones sounding just like Democrats. They (and we) have heard their platforms and policies and they have been soundly rejected.
It’s as if the Republican leadership has learned nothing from Bush’s unpopular moves to the left, learned nothing from the subsequent GOP 2006 defeats, learned nothing from McCain and Graham’s attempts to open the borders which were loudly rejected as well, and probably will learn nothing from losing these 3 GOP strongholds this week which should NEVER have been lost and wouldn’t have been with strong leadership.
If we lose the presidency and many more seats in Congress this fall (which right now appears to be the case), the Republican Party will have deserved it. Then the GOP should be overhauled immediately.