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Weekend Daily Part XI
- Filed under: Boccieri / Schuring, Congress, McCain, Moran / Nero, Sutton / Potter, Weekend Daily
- Date: Oct 5,2008
A few things to wrap up the weekend.
Hugh Hewitt and Bill Kristol tell Republicans not to despair. Hewitt lays out why McCain can win and Kristol spells out what McCain has to do. I met Hewitt in 2006 and he was a good guy. Here is hoping he is right. And Kristol is right that the Obama Campaign and the MSM want people like me to think the election is over to kill our spirits. Steve Hayes of the Weekly Standard says look back to 1976 for some answers as to how to close the gap. I'd like to see a commercial run like Ford did about Carter (on page 2).
Hot Air links to a Washington Post story: Sources within the campaign say that they will become much more aggressive in exposing Barack Obama’s ties to radicals and his lack of experience and judgment in the final four weeks of the campaign. This strategy entails significant risk, but they need to regain the edge they had before the conventions. Risky? Yes. Necessary? Yes.
Bailout passes. Like I have said, I have no idea as to whether it was needed or not. I do know that the story had to be moved off the front pages politically for McCain. McCain and Palin will be in Greater Cleveland Wednesday. Location not announced yet. Probably going for me. Also on the bailout, I noticed Betty Sutton (so also did two other GOP House members) switched her vote from no to yes in less than a week. Buckeye RINO has what could be called an "informative" video of Sutton.
Ohio.com takes a look at the contest (often talked about here) between Rich Nero and Mike Moran for the 42nd House District. Gonna be a tight race in a district that is split about dead evenly between Republicans and Democrats.
Ohio University switches to semesters, effective in 2012. I was always a fan of the quarter system - probably the only thing I liked about that communist loving school. There is nothing left to like now. Wonder what the results from precincts where OU students and faculty will be voting will like November 4? Obama 94 Other 3 McCain 3? Too high a result for McCain? I remember how miserable the papers and hate speech there were in 2002 - for a midterm election. God help the few Republicans down there now. I feel for you.
Canton Repository endorses Kirk Schuring over John Boccieri in the race to take Ralph Regula's seat in OH-16.
Lastly, not politically related, but a good story from the Plain Dealer on the 12 year old captain of the football team at Holy Name High School.
Well I guess this has nothing to do with politics either. Had to mention it though. Sorry…..but I held out this long.
12 Responses for "Weekend Daily Part XI"
There are numerous parallels between 1976 and 2008. I have a bad feeling the election might end up going the same way at this current pace. But 1976 did bring 1980.
Lets hold off on the 1976 leading to 1980 stuff for the time being.
The 8-10% undecided don't care about issues, character, and the future; their concern is picking the winner so that they can say, "I won!"
The time to have made this line of attack was before 90% of opinion was solidified - i.e. before the conventions. Now it just signals desperation - real or imagined - and plays into Obambi's rhetoric. The fact that the 4 most influential people in B. Hussein's life were a Communist pedophile in hiding, an anti-American terrorist, an anti-American, anti-Semitic, racist pastor, and a Syrian ex-pat con man is lost on these undecideds.
The "credit crisis" was handed to McCain on a silver platter; and if handled correctly would have thrust him to an insurmountable lead. Instead, he didn't have either the guts or the smarts to take advantage of it. Not only that, but he gift wrapped it for the leftists by taking the blame even though this was a wholly owned Dem failure of corruption and ideology.
At this point, Uh-uh-bama could set the Pope on fire live on TV and still get 40% of the vote. McCain should let this Ayers thing drop and just hammer on the unimaginable economic collapse that will occur by raising taxes during an economic crisis, the leftists' proposed take-over of health care pointing to how well the government did with mortgages, and the mass military retirements that will occur if Obama wins and our security.
McCain's campaign has 1 huge structural disadvantage - 95% of the Media is now an unabashed organ of the DNC - two natural disadvantages - he is old and White - and two strategic disadvantages - shame and conscience. All of these require a critical electorate in order to be overcome. Unfortunately the Dems have spent half a century eroding that characteristic through the dumbing down of education, the coarsening of culture, and the fertilization of a dependent free-rider socioeconomic voting bloc. His best hope now is a purely emotional appeal to peoples' self-interests and how Obama's radicalism puts that at risk.
McCain has a new message every week. The panic is evident. The only people Ben can site as bringing good news for Republicans are Hugh Hewitt and Bill Kristol. That is like me quoting Daily Kos and some hippie playing hacky sack in front of Mustard Seed. McCain is conceding states like Michigan. I hope Palin had a good weekend in Nebraska.
The GOP always has to overcome the media, but in this election cycle, the media bias is far, far worse than ever before.
I think McCain better start putting the blame for the mortgage crisis on Democrats, or he doesn't have a chance. In two debates, both McCain and Palin passed on making an argument against the Dems on the issue, much to the GOP's detriment. The entire shift in the polls is due to the financial crisis, and by their silence, McCain and Palin are letting the Dems affix the blame on Republicans.
King and Joe C. are spot on. There seems to be a gentleman's agreement among the politicians in regard to covering up Congress' role in the financial mess.
Ben,
I see Ohio House Republicans are already running commercials for Republicans in the Columbus and Cleveland media markets, but nothing for Nero. Is this a sign House Republicans are writing off his race?
Clueless, I dont know.
Kyle, I think comparing Bill Kristol, former COS to a VP, NYT columnist, and editor of the Weekly Standard to a blogger is absurd.
the OHDC is already running an ad for Moran and the neg ads have been out like crazy the race is gonna heat up this week stay tuned
Clueless, I think Nero is running his own race because he has raised his own money in suffficent quantities to run his own race and his own ads.
So it is not a case of them "writing off his race"
The commercials you see are for candidates whose races are being run by the "geniouses" in Columbus.
Moran looks like a dork.
Ohio Congresswoman Betty Sutton (D) Receives Big Payback for Bailout Vote:
New York City Investment Executive Hosts $500-Per-Person Fundraiser
While her constituents in Ohio’s 13th congressional District reel from the devastating news that National City Bank will be taken over by PNC Bank, Congresswoman Betty Sutton (D-Copley Township) is in New York City tonight, the guest of honor at a posh fundraiser hosted by a wealthy New York City mortgage data industry executive.
Jeffrey H. Lynford is chairman of the board at Reis, Inc., which has strong ties to the largest lending institutions in the country, including GMAC, Bank of America, Fannie May, and Freddie Mac.
“Tonight, Betty Sutton is spending more of her tax payer-paid vacation time with the Fifth Avenue social elites, getting paid back $500 a head for changing her vote to ‘yes’ on the bailout,” said David Potter (R-Strongsville), her opponent in next week’s election.
“The Congresswoman has spent the last four weeks misleading the citizens in our district into believing that her vote would benefit the middle class. But instead, she is busy receiving financial paybacks from the greedy CEOs she pretends to despise.”
Reis, Inc., is a leading provider of commercial real estate information services to the investment community. Lynford, along with his brother, Lloyd Lynford, president and CEO at Reis, both had 2007 incomes that approached $1 million and stock options that dwarf that basic annual compensation.
“This company clearly benefitted financially by Ms. Sutton changing her vote,” Potter said. “She should explain to the struggling voters of her district just who was present at this fundraiser.”
Potter looks forward to her doing just that tomorrow at the Cleveland City Club, where the two debate at noon.
“On October 3rd, Ms. Sutton announced that she changed her vote for a bill that was ‘aimed squarely at restoring our middle class and strengthening our communities,’ ” Potter said, “Apparently, Ms. Sutton forgot that her constituents live in areas where $500 is hard for some citizens to earn over the course of a month. She decries the excesses on Wall Street, yet wants us to look the other way when she visits for a night”.
To view the invitation for Ms. Sutton’s fundraiser, a video of the Congresswoman’s Capitol Hill statement from 10/3, and financial information on her wealthy friend, Jeff Lynford, visit Potter’s website at http://www.potterforcongress.com.
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