Comments on: Beating John McCain

By: Terrence White

Terrence White — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:50:15 +0000

The key to beating John McCain is to catch him in lies, in which he will look stupid afterwards. For instance at one of his rallies, he mentioned that if he was president when Hurricane Katrina happened he would have landed his helicopter in New Orleans within 24 hours. Well as memory serves me correctly, he was near a helicopter on August 29,2005 along with President Bush celebrating his birthday. Now call me crazy, but isn’t a weather crisis more important than a damn peice of cake. One final note, John McCain also visited New Orleans this year and made a litlle speech about how if he was president, he would have gave more funding to the city of New Orleans. That’s very interesting, considering that John McCain was one of the many senators who voted to cut off funding for the city of New Orleans. (AND HE WONDERS WHY IT STILL LOOKS LIKE CRAP!) I dont think, I know that if John McCain is elected president he (just like that moron Bush) is going to care more about a damn war than helping struggling America.

JOHN + MCCAIN = LIAR

By: Beating John McCain

Beating John McCain — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:15:15 +0000

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By: Kyle E. Moore

Kyle E. Moore — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:08:25 +0000

D: HOLY SHIT I DAMN NEAR PISSED MY PANTS! It’s actually much funnier when you have about three or four pokemon games in a shoe box that you still dust off once in a while to kill time with. You bring up some great points, and I think, you know, that’s one thing that gets me, Democrats campaigning really does seem very serious and dour.

So… my goal, from now on, every post about McCain will at least attempt to contain one throw away line. We’ll see how it goes.

Non: Tell me more about this site, it’s interesting if not expansive yet.

By: non

non — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:24:00 +0000

as for mccain’s experience:

http://www.mccainsexperience.com

By: Dynamic

Dynamic — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:11:57 +0000

One thing I try to bring up frequently is the powerful effect of humour on elections. Let’s face it - the really informed voters have already made up their minds. We’re not trying to convince them. They guys and girls we’re after are the guys and girls who are trying to get by amidst declining salaries and alarming news reports, who don’t have time or inclination to research these things. These are the people who bought into Swift Boat because it was repeated enough.

Well, we can play the same game, but play it fair. No need to make anything up about McCain - the truth will serve just fine! But the important thing is making it stick.

Now, which of these are you more likely to remember tomorrow:

A) John McCain has a proven track record on making poor decisions regarding the environment, including these specific examples (and examples are provided here)

B) John McCain - he’s winning the war on nature!

Or how about:

A) John McCain is running on his foreign policy credentials, but he can’t even keep track of what sects Al-Quaida and Iran belong to, a highly relevant piece of information that he’s blanked on numerous times;

B) John McCain’s been endorsed by AARP, and he can’t remember who else

If you’re not a political junkie like most of us, the latter choices are going to stick in your head a lot more easily. If you find it funny enough, you might even repeat it at work the next day, or post it on your myspace, or put it in your knitting, dancing, or Fall Out Boy blog. Fire off enough of these throwaway lines and eventually some are going to stick - and they’re going to become the narrative, because they’re easily repeated, clever, and contain a message about McCain’s politics that can’t be divorced from the humour.

Republicans are experts at crafting these sorts of things, but there’s no reason we can’t do it better - and again, we have truth on our side, we don’t NEED to lie about their candidates.

We just need to be clever about it. This is grassroots marketing (which in my involvement with raving I work with every day) and it works, unequivocally.

One last piece, which I think is hilarious - and nails a demographic who otherwise wouldn’t care about McCain, but if 1 out of 50 of them votes, that’s X number of votes who otherwise wouldn’t have gone our way, and it all adds up.

http://a166.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/107/l_9e746868d7c9e6efda4aff9f1cf0848d.gif

By: Kyle E. Moore

Kyle E. Moore — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:28:18 +0000

Tried to leave a comment there. Good post, and this is the kind of thing that we need to keep hammering McCain on from now until November. That the economy isn’t the only thing he doesn’t know anything about, and while his service to his country is something to be honored, it isn’t a blanket qualifier to handle the challenges that the President of the United States must handle.

By: Jay McDonough

Jay McDonough — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:20:16 +0000

from swimming freestyle:

“John McCain has admitted he’s clueless when it comes to the economy. (Fear not - he’s checked out Alan Greenspan’s book from the library). He’s made it pretty clear he intends to run on his military record and gung ho, never mind the facts, position on Iraq. That might be OK if he could just get the details right.”

http://swimmingfreestyle.typepad.com