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McCain's strategy

Submitted August 4, 2008 - 5:21 pm by Tara Van Niman

Some others have hit on it, but I find it interesting that so many of McCain's ads (and I can't believe he's actually putting his name on these) are ads in and of themselves FOR Obama.  "The One" for example uses some of his best quotes and shows the excitement that the world and the electorate has for this candidate.  It escapes me how this is a BAD thing.  Likewise with the celebrity one.  And now they are hitting hard on a simple, common sense part of a solution.  I think the correct response is, "if you can't read for yourself that this is only one small part of an overall plan, I'm afraid you are beyond help."  The whole thing just reeks of a high school president race rather than one for POTUS.

 

On the Bayh speculation, I have always struggled with the notion of having 2 senators on the ticket.  For me, picking Kaine and almost assuring a pickup in VA is just far too tempting to resist.

 

Also, having just returned from vacation, I would like to echo Al's sentiments about the dog days of summer and how few people are really paying attention.  It's true.  And FWIW, the count out of MT on bumper stickers was 3 Obama 0 McCain.  In fact, I have yet to see one McCain bumper sticker ever.

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