McSame Manager: 'This election is Not About Issues' -- Palin adapting a "masculine" speech.

[jefferson_dem]

Not about issues? Really? Team Obama best pounce right on that statement.

McCain Manager: 'This election is Not About Issues'

Rick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain's presidential bid, insisted that the presidential race will be decided more over personalities than issues during an interview with Post editors this morning.

"This election is not about issues," said Davis. "This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates."

Davis added that issues will no doubt play a major role in the decisions undecided voters will make but that they won't ultimately be conclusive. He added that the campaign has "ultimate faith" in the idea that the more voters get to know McCain and Barack Obama, the better the Republican nominee will do.

Davis generally dismissed the controversies surrounding McCain's vice presidential pick -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- as a media creation but did acknowledge that her acceptance speech, which seems likely to come tomorrow, is critically important to defining who she is to the American public.

As for the speech itself, Davis said a generic, "masculine" speech was being prepared before the pick was made and, now that Palin is the choice, she is adapting the speech to her own needs and personality.

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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/09/mccain_manager_this_election_i.html

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. Combine "not about issues" with "nation of whiners."

Are these guys trying to lose?

[Occam Bandage]

3. Their cynicism is breathtaking.

[Occam Bandage]

2. ...what...the...fuck? "Not about issues?" If I don't see an Obama response by the end of the day,

I'm going to be very disappointed.

[...of J.Temperance]

4. The GOP can't have the election being about the issues because....

They know that the majority of the issues that the GOP support are way outside of the mainstream, the GOP in general are now an Extremist party, with an Extremist platform that actively discriminates against those who aren't like them and/or disagrees with them on a range of issues.

Republican policies are not popular amongst the majority of the public, from wanting more trillion dollar taxcuts at the expense of the middle class, to continuing an unpopular war, to wanting to allow the Government to invade peoples' bedrooms, to wanting to privatize Social Security, to wanting to ban abortion including in the cases of rape and incest, to wanting to teach Creationism in schools.

These are NOT policies that are popular amongst the mainstream population.

So of course the GOP don't want the election to be about the issues, because an election fought on the issues means that they lose.

The GOP want the election to ONLY be about:

McCain = POW....Terror....9/11....Terror....McCain = POW....9/11....

[Thrill]

5. They've done nothing but personal attacks on Obama anyway

This changes nothing. They've never talked about the issues. Because they can't win that debate

[thoughtcrime1984]

6. Yep, they have never said a damn thing about what they'd do to right the wrongs

They just keep making Britney/Paris/attack Obama commercials. They should just f'ing give up, they are stupid and transparent, and never have anything to say of value.

[cottonseed]

7. Repubs make it a "big election" about "no issues".

What a joke they've become. Who's the "serious" party now?

[KittyWampus]

8. A gaffe is accidently telling the truth. It's TRUE politics isn't about Issues. But you NEVER say it

There's a difference between politics and policy.

Getting votes and winning elections= politics
Issues, legislation= policy

[applegrove]

9. Of course the GOP doesn't want to run on issues. When they win they don't govern! Why

on earth would they run on things important to the American public when they think government should be shrunk and drowned in a bathtub.

[ErinBerin84]

10. I wouldn't be surprised if it is a speech on the "sexism" she is facing.

:puke:

[Cha]

11. Maybe this time it is

about ISSUES! And, palinmccain have plenty of those.