In 2004, John McCain got 74% of Latino vote. In 2008, he got 40%. In R2K poll to be released today, he gets 10%.
The fastest growing demographic in America are turning their backs on the GOP. The Republican strategy of going hard right is proving to be a massive failure. Good for us, bad for them.
"I watched Obama's rise from Hyde Park over the last 15 yrs. Two things stand out: his political rivals almost always, and fatally, underestimate the guy's abilities. I sense there's some racism there, and his opponents always try to smear him as a "radical black guy" but Obama has always positioned himself above racial street fighting. The fact is, Obama is not just smart, he's brilliant.
Second, the guy constantly fights a war of attrition, staying the course, keeping his cool, but applying constant steady pressure to the abutments of the opposition, and over time almost all of them crumble.
I don't think conservatives have yet figured this out about a guy, who now, is their biggest danger to future political relevance. He's grinding them, slowly, into dust."
Obama is always underestimated. Works twice as hard. Does it with class.
NBC's David Gregory seemed incredulous that McCain thought Palin's resignation spoke well of her leadership capabilities.That's stubborn GOP thinking for you, just stick to your story, even when it turns out horribly wrong.
"You have sustained personal torture, personal attack, political attack, investigation," Gregory said. "You have never resigned from anything. Is it consistent with your qualities of leadership to resign an elected post like this?"
"Sure," the senator said.
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"[Paul] Krugman also makes a point I've been wondering about: What's happen to the GOP's adviser class? When Barack Obama wants to convey strength and experience on the economy, he call Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, Warren Buffett, Paul Volcker, Laura Tyson, Joe Stiglitz, and Gene Sperling. McCain calls...Meg Whitman? Phil Gramm? Carly Fiorina? Kevin Hasset? Mitt Romney? An online auctioneer, a sour deregulator, a failed CEO, a guy who wrote a book saying that Dow would hit 36,000 right before the market crashed, and an early-model android?There are simply no Republicans left in Washington to work in a McCain Administration. The Republican brand is dead.
It wasn't always like this, Say what you will about him, but Romney had serious economic advisers playing prominent parts in his campaign: Greg Mankiw and Glen Hubbard in particular. McCain has Doug Holtz-Eakin, but he's playing campaign flack rather than acting as an adviser. McCain has been in Washington for 24 years. Hes been prominent for virtually that whole period. That he's not built better or stronger relationships with serious economic minds is extremely telling. Plenty of economists and financial analysts would have happily advised him over the years and then naturally assumed visible roles during his presidential campaign. That few have done so says a lot about how little interest McCain has shown in these issues throughout his career."
"What's more, McCain seems not to understand that earmarks are just a tiny piece of the fiscal picture. As Barack Obama pointed out during the debate, earmarks represent just $18 billion out of a much larger pie. Compare that to the projected 2009 deficit (not counting the bailout) of roughly $500 billion. Or compare it to the total federal budget of about $3 trillion."Read on
"[In 1999], McCain had joined with other Republicans to push through landmark legislation sponsored by then-Sen. Phil Gramm (Tex.), who is now an economic adviser to his campaign. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act aimed to make the country's financial institutions competitive by removing the Depression-era walls between banking, investment and insurance companies.In other words, McCain personally gave the financial industry a green light to do exactly what they did. And now he's outraged. McSame is tring to reinvent himself on the fly.
That bill allowed AIG to participate in the gold rush of a rapidly expanding global banking and investment market. But the legislation also helped pave the way for companies such as AIG and Lehman Brothers to become behemoths laden with bad loans and investments.
McCain now condemns the executives at those companies for pursuing the ambitions that the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act made possible."
It's precisely why McCain's economic message has been so oddly incoherent this week. Turning on a dime, he's gone from supporting fewer regulations to supporting more, from supporting less oversight to supporting more. McCain is slamming Wall Street execs for playing a dangerous game after McCain helped throw out the rules.This is the mind of a 72 year old man who never had to be consistent, he could always play the outsider roll. But when you change your position so many times that "flip-flip" is a vast understatement, you just look like you'll say or do anything to get elected.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who received $24,000 in benefits last year, believes this system is an “absolute disgrace.”It's so disgraceful he takes the money.
[McCain had] spent, several weeks with the main theme of his campaign being, quite literally, to criticize Barack Obama for not having been physically present in Iraq recently. This (of course) got Obama to go to Iraq, thus setting up a dilemma. Either Obama would survey the “progress” in Iraq and change his position, thus making him a flip-flopper, or else he would refuse to change his position, thus making him obstinate and out of touch with reality.Over the last couple of months, the entire GOP foreign policy — the strategy, the worldview, the assumptions, the tactics — has crumbled to the point of destruction.
But instead of either of those things happening, Obama went to Iraq and Iraqi leaders said he’d been right all along! That’s about as close to “game, set, match” as you get in terms of real world events influencing your political campaign. What’s more, given the domestic situation and John McCain’s inability to talk about domestic issues persuasively, he can’t afford to play for a draw on Iraq.
Lime green? Like the color of jello you get at old folks homes. Your old folks home soon enough. Politics is theatrics and you look sad. Very sad. He looks like he's at a Senior PGA tour luncheon. Cracking jokes about dentures or his new hip.
