From speaking to many of these “Obama-lovers”, I can tell you what you probably already know – that they hate hearing about the connections. Independent voters are just going to see the mention of the horrible connections as mud-slinging or dirty politics. Now, I’m pretty sure that McCain can stump him on his policy positions, and that’s what he needs to do, IMO. He needs to be able to explain to the people the problem and the right solution – his solution, and why Obama’s plans are very dangerous and more likely to make our nation worse off than before. I think that that would show how committed he is to improve our nation and how committed he is to be a true leader with all the right solutions.

And I agree, no one really is buying that “I know” line. Especially when the popular MSM is setting up everything against him, it’s a bad line to use.

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“You ignore the voter fraud and constant illegal activities of Acorn and helped to fund them, which has benefited yourself and your fellow Democrats. In the first rescue bill you tried to give Acorn 20% of the government profit. If I’m president, I will ask my U.S. Attorney General to investigate filing RICO charges against them.”

And ask Obama why he refuses to surrender documents in a pending case that questions if he is even legally qualified to run for the office of president.

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IMHO:

McCain is in a tough spot, he not only needs to take the gloves off, he needs to pull out some brass knuckles and do it “Chicago style”.

He needs to attack, but he needs to get put his positions on the table first, then go in to have Obama “Reeling from the feeling”. Hopefully he’s ironed out that revamped Economy package he’s been working on because he must work it into this debate now. Not later commercials and rallys. He can hit Obama hard and I agree, he has to say the word “socialist”, He’s already got as much bank as he could out of Ayers being a terrorist this week so Obama will be waiting for it.

Instead he should do a change-up and hit him on education with the Annenburg challenge he and Ayers worked on; how it did nothing to help with “no child left behind” and instead sought to groom children into be community activists and rabble rousers. then follow through with the left jab on Ayers speaking out telling children to go home and kill their parents. Do it short and sweet. Obama will rile over the later and be to rattled to actually answer the questions. McCain has to stick and move, smile while he’s doing it, not show anger.

I think he needs to take a little bit of Palin in there with him, a smile and a wink or two. If Obama tries the “4 more years of Bush” ploy, maybe a “well gosh darn it, there you go again looking at the past” to give a nod to Palin. The crowd would never expect it.

He needs to actually look at Obama when he speaks as he is a serious threat and not ignore him because the media hits him on that every time. When Obama says Senator McCain is right, as he frequently does, McCain should use it, “I agree with the Senator, we both know I’m right”. By all means he needs to name the names on Pelosi, Dodd, Frank, and Reid’s involvement in creating our crises and say it wasn’t Bush wasn’t alone in this mess. The Democrats controlled the Senate and Congress has a share in the guilt, just as high gas prices and inflation that had drained the people’s pocketbooks. Point out that America would already be self-sufficient on her own oil and nuclear power if Democrats in Congress hadn’t blocked every attempt in the last 40 years to expand that infrastructure and less money would have found it’s way into terrorist hands to threaten and attack world-wide.

He should bring up that Obama wants to expand on George Soros’ socialist agenda and point out that Obama’s Universal Healthcare plan is nothing more than a step towards socialized medicine. It didn’t work in Russia, it’s not working in Canada, and it won’t work here.

If Obama brings up Bush and says a McCain-Palin administration would be the same he should say, “He’s your cousin, not mine. You admitted it yourself in June.”

He should point out “Your plan is to implement a national civilian police force the size of our own military under a group called Public Allies, to use the youth of America much the same way the Germans did with the brown shirts, President Bush, and the Clintons also supported that. But I don’t.”

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You just can’t seem to get your facts straight as usual. you have Obama in PA when he was actually in Ohio.

Really?

So you’re trying to tell me that Obama has not been campaigning in PA?

Is that what you’re trying to say?

Let’s check shall we?

Google, Google, Google….

Ah, yes….here it is.

From the Politico, October 12:

For Obama, that means trying to offset white, working-class voters’ uneasiness with him by hammering McCain as out of touch on their economic struggles, and driving a huge turnout here in the state’s most populous city, where he spent Saturday barnstorming four neighborhoods.

Including Saturday’s whirlwind day on the hustings, Obama has spent

Nowhere will that be more important for Obama than in heavily African-American Philadelphia, where Obama on Saturday drew an estimated 60,000 people to four rallies stretched across the northern part of the city.

You’re right, one of us doesn’t have our “facts straight” but it’s not me.

Tell me though, Sky55110, why would Obama be wasting one minute of time or one minute of Joe Biden’s time or Michelle’s time or one dollar of his money if indeed he was up by 13.4%?

Perhaps he’s smart enough to know that the polls are not what the pollsters have you convinced that they are.

Then you go on to quote more poll numbers.

Blah, blah, blah, yada, yada, yada.

What’s the MOE on those polls?

What’s the trending look like over the last seven to ten days?

I’ve already asked you. I see that you chose to ignore the questions.

Those are inconvenient facts for you.

I also notice you ignored the remainder of the issues that I raised in the other post and I know you were over there reading otherwise you wouldn’t have known what I said about the PA campaigning.

Guess I was right. You don’t have the stones.

Not surprised.

Tell me, Sky55110, what is it like to come here and beclown yourself on such a regular basis?

What’s that like?

What’s it like to come here and get bludgeoned so badly with the truth that you’re bleeding from the ears when you leave?

You expose your idiocy to the entire cyber-world with each and every post.

Yet you continue.

Amazing, pathetic, and, quite honestly, rather amusing as well.

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Aye,

You just can’t seem to get your facts straight as usual. you have Obama in PA when he was actually in Ohio. The Clintons were working for Obama in PA.

Reuters/C-Span/Zogby Tracking has Obama at 6+

Gallup 4+

Gallup Expanded 7+

fox new 7+

in the state of Ohio – Obama is RCP average 3.4+

In the state of Pennsylvainia – Obama is RCP average 13.4+

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCi3fVNEsn4

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[...] pessimism. It’s not like our Party hasn’t found itself in this predicament before. Remember: “My friends, we’ve got them just where we want [...]

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Dittman,
I like some of your plan’s points. The problem with your plan is that it leverages common sense, which is unfortunately uncommon! I wish the politicians would focus on the tasks at hand vs. the bribes in hand. I hope the American public wakes up on November 4th and votes based on facts regarding both candidates and what they will really do for the country.

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1. Propose to use welfare money to buy franchises for low income areas and then as part of thier paychecks to give shares (with dividends) of these businesses as payback. The communities would end up being true owners of new businesses in their area and the welfare money would be used to create jobs and healthcare (many franchises have health care built into them already) instead of just going into an endless pit. In 2009, that’s $390 billion and if it costs $200 million to start up a major shopping center, and each shopping center provides 1,000 local jobs, that’s a creation of 1.95 million jobs in 2009 alone. In 4 years, that would be 7.8 million new jobs, which would be more jobs than unemployed people.

2. Propose a training and networking system to provide jobs in areas where there are a shortage of workers. The $59.2 billion (2009) Department of Education can be reformed to do this. The U.S. needs more nurses, police officers, prison guards, railroad workers, dock workers, alternative energy engineers ect. That’s another two million or more jobs waiting right there.

3. Turn Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and HUD into rent to own companies instead of handling real estate loans. Rent to own is more economically stable than subprime to everyone involved.

4. Create a $1 trillion over 5 year program to upgrade the U.S. infrastructure which is falling apart and falling behind the rest of the world. Even more jobs would be created. About 20% would go back to the government immediately in the form of taxes on wages.

5. Here is my universal health care plan based on that 47 million number. I’m using a $3,000 zero deductible from Kaiser Permanente. 10 million illegal aliens get health care from the money taken out of foreign aid. The other 38 million could come from the redirection of Medical which would actually cut government costs by $113 billion (2009 budget).

So the balance between plans 4 and 5 is an increase of government by $47 billion. Eliminate the $17 billion in farm subsidies and it’s an increase of $30 billion. The increase of 2 million new jobs (plan 1 and 2) at an average wage of $30,000 with 18% tax would give the federal government $10.8 billion. dropping it down to $19.2 billion. Eliminating the United States Department of Health and Human Services (2009, redundant at this point) would not only finish playing for plan 4, it would reduce the national deficit to the planned deficit for 2009 to $387.8 billion.

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@james manning:

I agree McCain should not get bogged down in “attacking” Obama, to the exclusion of presenting his case on the economy. But he just cannot afford to let the debate slip away without forcing Obama to explain his relationships with Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Fannie/Freddie and I’d say especially ACORN now since that story seems to be gaining some traction in the MSM. If that means the debate gets feisty and even “negative” – good! As I mentioned, another boring debate will be deemed a “tie” which is a big win at this point for Obama. Raising doubts about Obama’s judgment and character is a vital component to a McCain victory, no matter what he says about the economy or any other issue.

As to your second comment, correct me if I am wrong but I don’t think the Republicans had a filibuster-proof (i.e., controlling) majority after 2000, did they? The key difference now is that Democrats might very well have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, an even larger majority in the House, and the party-line liberal Obama in the White House. If this is what Americans want, fine. But I think there are many likely voters out there who don’t even know that the Democrats have the majority in both Houses right now. McCain should make sure everyone knows this and what the implications are before November 4.

As for energy, there is no good reason why we can’t Drill, Baby, Drill AND pursue alternative energy simultaneously. ANWR drilling might not provide jobs for people in Ohio, but building clean-coal factories, for example, will. McCain could potentially lock up PA, OH, WV, etc with a message like that.

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First off on the economy, McCain needs to make a few points: lower energy prices and availability of credit to small business are the two biggest stimuli that can be had, domestic energy production helps not only jobs and balance of payments but revenue to the states as well, and Obama’s tax plan is a disaster and results in more people taking money out of the system through tax credits.

The message he should have been hitting from the day he secured the nomination: this guy’s got so many crooked friends you can’t possibly trust him in the White House.

The message he should have been hammering, relentlessly and with complete focus, for two months: the Dems were responsible for FNMA and FHMLC bringing down the whole mortgage house of cards and if you give the whole government to the Democrats you will NEVER get a straight answer.

The message he should be hammering right now, relentlessly and with complete focus: You want to know what ‘community organizers’ like Obama and ACORN do? They steal votes.

Bush cut taxes in a useful way but he did nothing to contain spending – indeed, his undersized Iraq invasion force meant a long war and an ongoing drain.

McCain needs to emphasize that in letting the drilling ban expire the Dems did nothing to incent the states to permit exploration, and at this point where state revenues are hurting the states need the ongoing stable source of revenue that would come from offshore drilling, shale, etc.

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