General Election Strategy Revealed: "McCain plans to claim mantle of change"

[Avalux]

I'm sure the clandestine meetings with Bush will continue; but McCain has revealed how he plans to fight Obama in the GE - going head to head with him on CHANGE. This should be good - bring it on Puppetman! :bounce:


WASHINGTON - With voters sour on the status quo, Republican John McCain plans to spend the next five months arguing that he has a history of fighting to reform government and that Democrat Barack Obama talks of change with nothing to show for it.

"I have a record of doing that, not a rhetoric of doing that," McCain told an audience last week, claiming he long has taken a bipartisan approach to fixing the country's ills while suggesting that Obama simply offers empty promises of working across party lines.

The four-term Arizona senator was forecasting his overarching general election theme against the fresh-faced first-term Illinois senator.

McCain will start making his case in earnest Tuesday during a prime-time speech in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner, La., a searing symbol of government inaction after Hurricane Katrina. It's meant to coincide with the final Democratic primaries in South Dakota and Montana and, thus, mark the start of the general election.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24938025/

[Warren DeMontague]

1. "You can't polish a turd, Beavis" nt

[Triana]

2. Yea we should talk about his RECORD. ENDLESSLY. n/t

[thereismore]

3. This is good news. Nothing spells ou CHANGE like a septugenarean candidate. nt

[ErinBerin84]

4. too late, McSame.

screw your maverick bs, in the message and marketing war, that mantal has already been claimed.

[City Lights]

5. "Spare" change, maybe. As in, that's all that's left in the US Treasury.

:rofl:

[Abacus]

6. Thanks, Hillary.

Any other talking points you want to give him?

[BuyingThyme]

7. Just put him in a commercial with the Stay-the-Course Chimp and

problem solved.

[applegrove]

8. Good luck with that McSame.

[papapi]

9. McLame/Cheney 2008. There's real shame...er, I mean change fer ya.

[Doityourself]

10. .. McSame sucks..period. no more. no less.

[spinbaby]

12. Heh, heh...

We had the same thought at the same moment.

:rofl: :rofl:

[spinbaby]

11. Change what?

His Depends?

[woolldog]

13. McCain = Change

:spray:

I hope he tries that strategy. I really hope he does.

[pdxmom]

14. And with a voting record of 95%-100% in accordance with the WH

positions over the past 2 years, I'm sure that people will just laugh at his strategy.

[Enrique]

15. he might as well claim he's the black candidate

maybe he will.

[blogslut]

16. Ha!

What a joke of an idea. Go for it, McSame!

[FredScuttle]

17. I haven't heard this touched on much

but I hope it does get raised ad nauseum...

The knock against Kerry in '04 was that, as a long-serving Senator, he had a wealth of votes that could be mined and exploited for political purposes. He was branded a "flip-flopper" for changing his votes on certain issues over the course of his Senate service.

Why in the hell can't we do the same to McSame?! We've got 20+ years of his voting record and I'm sure the past 2 years will produce endless examples of how he's sold out his principles and is the biggest "flip-flopper" around.

[AllentownJake]

18. Good luck with that speech tonight

Between the coronation and the campaign death watch they aren't going to care a lick of what you have to say John.

[ErinBerin84]

19. Did anyone see the DNC Communications Director on MSNBC just now?

Shuster was trying to ask her about McCain taking on role of "reformer", and she made me laugh. She said something like "The John McCain of 2000 probably wouldn't even vote for the John McCain of 2008 (talked about tax cuts flip flop), the more Democrats camapaign, the more they are liked, while McCain still has his own problems within the Republican party, many republicans came out in North Carolina and voted against him! The more voters learn about him, the less they like".

[underpants]

20. His campaign is already a train wreck

mostly because he is such a horrible candidate