change of tone for mccain?Follow

on the same day troopergate comes out he is giving praise to obama, and correcting personal attacks on obama at a republican campaign party?

personally, i think he has found himself again. something he lost somewhere during the fight for the whitehouse. his self respect. his honor.

mabe im wrong, and he is just shifting gears because the attacks are backfiring, but i will choose to beleive he is instead deciding to stand tall once again as opposed to groveling in the dirt with the typical republican style politics.

it may be he has accepted defeat and wants to set the tone for his exit too. especially after the troopergate verdict. the kick em when they are down report.

but mccain is a hero. so i doubt he knows the word defeat, and im sure he cant even spell surrender. mabe now we can finnish this thing with a run to the wire on the issues and not character assination and swift boating. as it should be done. well done, and over due. may the best man win on the issues and what they can do for us, and may the victor and defeated stand side by side when its done so we can start cleaning up this mess.

hopefully, this is the beginning of the end of the "us and them" mentality in american politics. no matter who wins.

Or, as I suspect, McCain is tacitly throwing in the towel. He has never been comfortable with mudslinging and-- believe it or not --actually is a good guy despite all the stuff you guys have said about him ditching his first wife-- not that I expect any of you to admit to it.

More than anything McCain is a realist. He sees the writing on the wall and would rather work to have a smooth transition of power and later be able to continue his bipartisanship in the Senate than to burn a bridge that appears to already be behind him. He didn't like it when Bush assasinated his character in 2000 and prolly doesn't like it that his campaign has veered in that direction recently. It also explains why he hasn't brought up any of the things Palin has been hammering during the debates. He considers it unbecoming and unstatesmen-like.

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That video isn't even funny, it's just dumb. I like tina fey doing Palin, not this drivel.

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/vp-debate-open-palin-biden/727421/

I hope you're right, and not because of the "throwing in the towel" part, but because in 2000 if he had made it through the primaries I was considering voting for him, and I felt that something had gone wrong between then and now.

I think that McCain didn't have any particular desire to go the negative route in his campaigning, but his staff probably pointed out how effectively it worked against him in 2000, so he went along with it. But despite the attempted character assassination, Obama continued to poll better and better. Since that tactic didn't work, its probably been shelved.

And despite his history of marital infidelity, I don't think anyone here finds that grounds to be disqualified as a presidential candidate. What the folks around here seem to think of that is that IF the right wing pundits claim that it disqualifies John Edwards, then it should disqualify McCain as well. Its the hypocrisy to which people object.

Yes, but you couldn't vote for him at the time.

Then again, in 2000, I voted for Nader, so it's partly my fault we got eight years of Bush.

The whole "McCain's really a great guy who never wanted to go elbows deep into shit-slinging..." thing is crap. If McCain has so little control over his own campaign that they run roughshod over the guy and conduct all these things in his name but against his will, then McCain never had any right to be president anyway. He'd make Warren Harding look like a political mastermind.

This hasn't been one or two "Oops" moments where a campaign surrogate has spoken out of turn; this has been a weeks long coordinated effort including scripted speeches by his Vice-Presidental nominee, television ads, lengthy web videos and blanketed coverage by campaign staffers on the news shows. If McCain wasn't "comfortable" with it, the time to have said something was two weeks ago before they unrolled their giant plan.

If he's changing his campaign's tonenow then great. But let's not pretend that there's any other reason for the campaign getting to this point besides McCain selling out his character to bring it to this point.

Well, Obama really is tied to the weather underground!

http://64.243.174.104/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=obama&wuSelect=WEATHER

I've been reading great teary missives of concern from the Pubbie camp that there could even be riots and violence if Obama is elected, and thinking, "Yes, and we'll know who's culpable for that, you sorry sacks of ****."

So you're pinning your hopes of a win on the premise that white voters, in their heart-of-hearts, really do hate blacks?

Now that's a recipe for a mandate.