We can not afford a third Bush term, John McCain represents four more years of George W. Bush's failed policies.
It's an incredibly simple statement, yet devastating and for some reason I haven't been hearing it from the Obama campaign for a while. JMHO, but the reason John McCain has been making up ground isn't simply because of his advertising and campaigning but because the Obama campaign has been passively allowing him to pursue his message without going after him for supporting George Bush's failed policies. It used to be every speech at the end of the primaries and at the MN acceptance and a while beyond was calling McCain out on supporting Bush. The MSM will not make the contrasts, Obama has to take his microphone and like Iowa, go after John McCain every day as a third Bush term. MAKE McCain the incumbant. MAKE the election about McCain. The dynamics as they now stand give McCain a 50/50 shot of negative campaigning winning the day for Republicans. We can't let this be about Obama but about ideas: John McCain is running for George Bush's third term. EVERY democratic surrogate and talking head should be saying this EVERY day about EVERY subject. And so should we in our diaries.
We need that again. Don't make the mistake of allowing McCain to coast; put him on the defensive and tie him to George Bush. Please send this message to Sen. Obama. On Tuesday he will be meeting with the House Democratic Caucus. Call your representative or the Speaker or email and tell them to tell Sen. Obama he needs to go on the attack. And by that I mean stand up and call John McCain out for having a piss ass budget, no plan for the mortgage crisis, not supporting the regulatory reforms we need. Focus on the economy and when hit on foreign policy hit back. But no matter what; stand up and say John McCain represents a third Bush term, and we can't afford a third Bush term.
I think it's clear the McCain camp/RNC have worked the refs to a point that Obama is going to face a backlash for such a successful trip. Hell, you can see it happen as everyone starts calling him presumptuous in lock-step. When that happens, he'll be Goreified. The only remedy I see is him going on the offense: force McCain to prove he's NOT running a third Bush term. That will split the conservative base and make independents wary of him. It's a winning ticket.
Contact your representative by Tuesday and remind Sen. Obama of this.
Democratic Caucus Member Directory- for those of you that need to look up your representative.
Cash In to Obama '08.