I Have Never Seen a Presidential Campaign Melt Down So Fully So Early

[WeDidIt]

McCain's campaign is melting down before our eyes and it ain't even August yet.

Let me say that again, it AIN'T EVEN AUGUST YET!

You NEVER go negative this early. Remember the marketing strategy for the war back in '02? You never introduce a new product before Labor Day, but here's McCain going negative on Obama a full 6 weeks before it could even help his dumb ass. You can tell, Obama has gotten under McCain's skin, and done it big time. McCain absolutely HATES Barack Obama. There's no "dislike to this thing. He HATES Barack Obama and is going to stay in the gutter from here to election day with one nasty statement after another and one nasty campaign ad after another.

It's sad, really, and the media are terrified.

See, the "Super Bowl of Politics" is playing on Nopvember 4, and everybody needs the excitement to be generated. Have you any idea how much a 60 second spot on CNN or Faux will go for on November 4 if nobody knows how it'll turn out? If everybody believes it's a tight race, everybody with some soap to sell will want in the game on election night. Heck, the only thing that sells soap better than a tight election is a war, and McCain has outright promised at least another humdinger of a war if he's elected.

Frankly, I don't think it'll work. No matter how much the terrified cowards in the media protecting their paychecks try to prop up gramps, this shit don't fly. They could have held off until late October, gone negative, and been effective. But the worst enemy of the McCain campaign is John McCain! My gosh, when the campaign itself is saying that John McCain doesn't necessarily speak for the John McCain cmpaign, you know things are in full out melt down mode.

I was thinking the nationally televised melt down of McCain might actually happen in the last debate, but I was wrong.

It happened the day McCain accused Obama of wanting to lose a war to win an election.

[TwilightGardener]

1. I agree--can't wait to see what October looks like.

[WeDidIt]

3. He might let slip with the "N" word by then

if he keeps on track with the crap he's been spewing.

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

9. It may look like a different horse race

McSame has not been nominated yet. He could withdraw from the race......

[ClassWarrior]

2. But don't let that make you complacent!! They can and will still STEAL it.

We need theft-proof majorities. Volunteer for the campaign today!!

NGU.

[WeDidIt]

4. Oh, absolutely! It makes me want to kick in another $25 every time he says nasty shit!

And then go work the phones for a couple of hours!

[goclark]

7. GOTV now!

Work because we know Mc Cain feels that they will steal it in November.

GOTV.

[C_U_L8R]

5. I can't wait for the debates !!!

The beastly McCain is gonna explode with a sickening 'pop'.

[grantcart]

6. McCain is outstanding here - you have to watch it to the end

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqKaU2fZkAc&feature=related

[C_U_L8R]

27. Love the Billy Madison mash-up :-)))

No points for McCain

[WeDidIt]

26. Obama DID get McCain to Blow a Gasket in the Senate

It's well known McCain got very pissed off at teh Junior Senator from Illinois over sponsorship of legislation.

[Mz Pip]

8. The thing is

all that nasty crap works with some voters. McCain is a sleazeball and so are his surrogates but these people aren't stupid. They know negative ads work. And I think they are working. Obama's bounce has faded and his lead has shrunk.

I will never underestimate the stupidity of the American voters. This is not the first time they have been so easily swayed by truly disgusting negative ads.

[WeDidIt]

10. But not this early!

You go nasty AFTER Labor Day, and it's effective.

Not before.

NEVER before Labor Day.

[Hamlette]

29. The Swift Boat ads started running in July

I think the real problem McCain has is its him and he can't seem to settle on one thing to be critical of.

I like Obama's comeback: He's not just going after me, he's going after you. He's saying you can't change things, you can't have a discussion about issues and how we fix this country. He's calling you idiots when he calls me an idiot.

(he said it better but you get the point.)

[Virginia Dare]

11. Usually yes, but McCain has staked his rep on being "different"..

people will take notice that he's acting like just another sleazy politician. It doesn't sound like "straight-talk".

[Lorien]

12. I just saw the "Obama is a shallow celebrity" ad on the nightly news

yesterday. I had to laugh because it seemed more like a PRO-Obama ad! They show hundreds of thousands in Berlin chanting "O-Ba-Ma"! over and over, Obama smiling and waving, then clips of Brittany and Paris Hilton, with some voiceover nonsense saying that yes, Obama is a celebrity, but is he ready to lead? Um, dumbasses, if anyone is attracting crowds of hundreds of thousands, then yes, they are ready to lead (and, BTW, Americans LOVE their celebrities)! Dubya has some avid followers too, and he lead us all into a huge amount of trouble that McSame wants to perpetuate. Obviously McSame looks like the shallow one because he can't point to anything specific so he's trying to spin popularity as a bad thing. It's pathetic!

[donco6]

16. I thought the same thing.

"Everyone likes this guy, so don't vote for him."

Duh.

[WeDidIt]

18. Like Yogi Berra said. on why he no longer went to a popular St. Louis restaurant:

"Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded."

[rucky]

22. It will go down in history...

as the dumbest political ad evah!

[WeDidIt]

25. The idiots who produced it have no clue about how important the Visuals are

They needed bad photos of Obama.

Unfortuantely for them, Obama doesn't seem to take bad photos.

[SuperTrouper]

13. I cannot stop laughing, McCain's sorry campaign in full meltdown mode

and the Britney Spears attack ad seems to be backfiring, even the MSM is bored with McCain's antics

[Virginia Dare]

14. They're clearly desperate..

Obama is kicking their ass. He's got 50 million more in the bank right now than they do, and that's got to be scaring the shit out of them. They've still got to get through the debates, and Obama is going to absolutely destroy McCain and they know it. They're imploding.

[donco6]

17. And I haven't even started to give yet.

I usually don't contribute to campaigns until Sept. or so - and I'm sure there are many like me.

[frogcycle]

15. Don't blame McCain

His brain was extracted and replaced by remote-control devices when he became the nominee. It is kind of like "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers." He is one of the cabal's pod-people now. He does not think for himself; he recites lines that a few years ago would have appalled him.

Don't get me wrong; I am not sticking up for the slimeball. I am saying that the opposition is far, far bigger than him. It is not "the McCain Campaign." Just as the "War on Terror" would not be over if bin Laden were to be caught, we need to keep a broad focus, not fixate on John McCain as the presumptive opposition. He may be swapped out for another pod person at any time. It is not that McCain hates Obama - it is that the cabal hates everything Obama represents, that being a threat to their power.

[ecstatic]

19. Did the McCain campaign manager who promised to resign

if Obama were the nominee really resign? If so, good for him! The McCain camp is going to go down in history as running the nastiest campaign in American history before this is over.

[iamahaingttta]

20. McCain is NOT going to be the Republican nominee.

Mark my words!
That will be the September surprise.
At the convention, someone else will walk away being the nominee.
McCain will more likely than not have a health issue first.
He will NOT be the nominee.
Then the corporate media will make it's make it's 20 pieces of silver, because YOU PEOPLE will be glued to the idiot box, pushing up the ad rates.
That's how this game will be played...

[polichick]

21. And yet McCain is gaining in the polls.

[nancyr]

23. I don't believe polls.

They're rigged.

[polichick]

24. At this point, I sure hope so!

[Gabi Hayes]

28. WADR, you don't follow presidential politics much, do you?

when did Poppy Bush first mention Willie Horton in 1988?

how many more examples of pugs going negative from the GETgo would you like?

that's all they ever campaign on, aside from lower taxes and fearmongering

they have nothing else to go on, because their raison d'etre is inimical to the vast majority of Americans. they serve the corporations, who control most aspects of the average american's life these days

[underpants]

30. Consider-the Olympics start a week from tomorrow

and the Dem convention begins the day after the Olympics end (Denver Aug 25-28) so McCain has to try to put an bug in everyone's ear before all the oxygen is sucked out of the room. Everyone in DC goes on vacation in August and Congress is out of session.

He tried to get his banner out there for people to have to remember but unfortunately he put up several banners and they were all bad.

You and I might still watch politics for the next month but a lot of people won't. Oh and Obama's trip IS the last big news event that people will think about at the beach or when they see the US flag at the Olympics.