Wonkette
- WELL OK THEN: The McCain campaign issued a creepy memo today about how awesome Obama’s speech will be and that they expect it to give him a 15-percentage point bounce in Polls. Oh the expectations! Remember when Hillary’s campaign people kept moving the goal posts, as they say, for Obama’s performances like every few hours? That was a comical way to go about LOSING. The Obama team, of course, has responded to the McCain memo with some barb about McCain’s “dozen houses.” He’s up to a dozen now! He must’ve bought five more fancy condominiums in San Diego overnight, buyer’s market and all. [WP/The Trail]
Thank you.
If Obama only gets a 14-point bump after the convention, then everybody remember your talking point:
“Why can’t Obama close the deal?!?”
Drudge just put Biden’s pic next to the “Obama to announce” link. Guessing or does he know something? Or is it just fucking obvious Obama can’t pick any of the other schlubs except Hillary?
Wow, I’ve seen articles with ‘no replies’, but never one with ‘no views’. Does nobody else work till 6 on Fridays in the summer?
I fully expect McCain to get a 110 point bounce after his convention, and for his fundraising immediately afterward to tick up to $128.60 per day…. maybe even as high as $130.00.
Delicious: Is the stoopid siren light going?
McCain’s campaign released a memo stating that they fully expect every Republican to kill themselves following Obama’s convention speech. Anything less than that will raise serious questions about Obama’s candidacy… on and they remind everyone that McCain was a former POW.
Electric Zen: Exactly! This is what Fox News has been trying to point out. There is precious little more than two months left before Election Day and Obama has YET to win.
Way to psych yourself up by psyching yourself out. FAIL! EPIC! PAIL!
I just held my breadth for 95 minutes.
Hey, Barry, just a suggestion.
Start off your speech with “My friends…” Old people like that.
Then sit back and watch the bounce.
freakishlystrong: Not yet, that cock tease.
shortsshortsshorts: This shit is really cutting into my Friday afternoon porn viewing.
Lieberman should make a statement. So that I can post this:
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/thisaintsweettea/255685525_1631821.gif
Such good strategery on McCain’s part. Now all they have to do is predict that tropical storm Fay would pour 200 inches of rain on Florida and be relieved that the flooding wasn’t nearly as bad as expected. Christ, if I didn’t know this was a national election, I’d think it was some high school fight over who’s going to be president of the Spanish Club.
Is WALNUTS! still planning to announce his tired VP on his b-day August 29th? I sure hope that Barry will run an add reminding people that three years ago McThusela was eating cake with GWB for his birthday while New Orleans drowned right after his announcement.
mccain isn’t buying any more property in san diego and that’s really the news. if the guy was a true believer in capitalism, he’d be buying up all them million dollar condos that are in foreclosure.
Delicious: He had Chet’s up there earlier. He’s just as goddamned stymied as the rest of us/them. It’s pretty amazing how confounded the world is by a REALLY leak-proof campaign.
SayItWithWookies: it’s not?
BobLoblawLawBlog: Obama may be leak-proof, but McCain is the candidate you can Depends on.
yuk yuk
this is what the Dems need. Batshit-crazy staffers who will babble about useless nonsense about how many homes Gramppappy McCain has (which was completely off the subject) to infuriate and confuse the Repubs into having to issue some weak-ass response and get them off message. It’s been the Right’s strategy for years. The Dems are finally catching on.
McCain must have thought “Damn, I only have seven houses? I’m much richer than that, lets get some more.”
Is it also true that McCain’s campaign (which has already announced that the candidate does not speak for the campaign) announced that they expect 100% of McCain’s audience to fall asleep during his speech?
Remember: McCain is only still alive because Obama couldn’t close the deal with his Chicago hitman.
magic titty: Yah, and he should donate some of those to Habitat for Humanity! Or something. Maybe Cindy could give me a cut of the beer, ‘cept I don’t like it that much. Bud?
If you can’t bedazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.
Electric Zen: Gregory_of_Nazianzus:
I have a Koan for you: When is a Poll not a Poll? When Fox News Poll shows Obama going up from last month. Strangely enough, they have McCain falling below 40%, but instead of talking about their own poll, every show on Fox played up the Zogby poll.
Fair and Balanced.
Is Kool-Aid sponsoring the republican national convention?
What he didn’t mention was the Republican Convention plan to re-inact the lesbian torture scenes from his days at the hanoi hilton starring Victoria Jackson, Bo Derek and Patricia Heaton. That should be worth at least 15 points.
If at first you don’t succeed …:
http://WWW.JOHNMCCAIN.COM/McCainReport/Read.aspx?guid=db31d145-6a5b-4bac-b2d7-76696ef54689
“Posted at 9:51 AM on 6/13/2008 by SARAH SIMMONS
Inside the Numbers: The Latest Polls
John McCain continues to defy expectations. We all (pollsters, pundits and campaign leadership) were braced for A BARACK OBAMA BOUNCE — LIKE A PRETTY BIG ONE. The great news: it hasn’t really materialized, not yet anyway. Yes, he’s seen a bounce — daily tracking polls show him up around 6-points — but that’s a far cry from the hype that many of our friends on cable news [Fox?]had been selling.”
freakishlystrong: As opposed to the moderately intelligent siren light?
McCain Chief Deputy Strategist Sarah Simmons, a name you can trust:
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2008/mccain/mccainorga.html
“Sarah Simmons
… Top aide to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove. …”
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She also hates policy, but loves ideas and the “Comeback Kid”:
http://veracity.univpubs.american.edu/magazine/magazine/spring08/spring08_capital.php
Sarah Simmons, [AMU] SPA/BA ’95, SPA/MA ’97
campaign strategist for Senator John McCain
When Sarah Simmons began working for John McCain’s presidential campaign in January 2007, she didn’t envision being out of a job by July. But with the Arizona senator’s run for the White House reeling and out of cash, Simmons was forced into a summer and fall hiatus before the latest Comeback Kid brought her back on board earlier this year.
“When I left here in July [2007] I think a lot of people had closed the door and written the obituary of this campaign,” she says, “ But candidates matter and ideas matter, and John McCain is living proof of that.”
As a strategist for the campaign, Simmons monitors poll data and makes sure money and message are doled out to the right places. Always a political junkie, she realized as an undergraduate that the policy route wasn’t for her. She got a charge from campaigns, however, and cut her teeth on Bill Graves’s 1994 gubernatorial run in her home state of Kansas.
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magic titty: point well taken; makes all the sense in the world…keep the Republicans chasing their tail in circles and off message