But what McCain could do, as well as the other Republicans is pick out a few simple issues, which can be reduced to simple yet true slogans.

Drill Now! That would be one example where you could truly show the difference.

Other things like: “We don’t play defense lawyers for terrorists” “The USA doesn’t beg for its freedom” are slogans that anyone can remember.

A third of the electorate at least will be swept up in emotion and will cast their vote for the one that inspires the “Yeah! What he said!” passion.

Keep it simple, keep it like the Contract for America, and avoid discussing things that make the average voters eyes to glaze over.

On June 12th, 2008 at 9:02 am, mbabbitt said:

As much as i want to agree…

People want instant gratification. That’s how the dems are able to pull people into the idea that “if we drill now, it wont hit the market for 7-10 years”.

They don’t want to admit that its the supply side of the chain that’s helping drive prices, among several other factors.

If the supply is established, whether it would hit the pump tomorrow or 7 years from now…its still supply, and would lower the cost of the current supply because there would be more to use later.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTU0NThkNTk4ODMzYTUxYWE3YTQwZmJkYzJkYzE1OGU

Just click on the numerals to see for yourself this Alaskan equivalent of the Grand Canyon, as McBane refers to it.

Synopisis: in winter, a pale version of Mars’s frozen ice caps; not quite as cold, but every bit as desolate and virtually devoid of life. In summer, a huge swamp teeming with raptor-sized mosquitos.

Aside from oil workers almost no one visits the region, because…..there’s nothing to see. No lush vegetation, few animals, just a mostly lifeless and feature-less expanse. No bush pilots impulsively put their planes down there for rich tourist passengers, shouting over the noise of the engine,

“Folks, I hear the skeeter larvae are really bitin’ today in those swamps — just don’t forget the 8 inch minimum”.

In the winter the “threatened” caribou, before migrating southward, huddle near the pipeline because the oil flowing through it is heated. In the summer they congregate in the shade of that same pipeline (which in any case has sections built high enough so migratory animals can pass under it easily).

Remember: with slant drilling techniques the drilling facilities would take up only 2000 acres out of an area roughly the size of South Carolina — an exceedingly tiny environmental “footprint”.

But meanwhile, in the “Lower 48″, Stupidity surges across the American political landscape as never before. Thus McVain stubbornly swats aside not just reason, but the national interest, in his self-obsessed quest for the presidency.

I am reminded of a formerly obscure word: KAKISTOCRACY, which means: “the rule of the worst and least qualified”.

McQueeg. D’Ohbama. Take yur pick.

Yep, this election is a matter of 0 + 0 = 0. Two hoplessley committed lefties devoted to satisfying the greenies for their own self-aggrandizement.

Does anybody know Bob Barr’s take on all this?

… sigh, what a freaking mess both parties have left us in for ignoring this issue the past 30 years.

/sigh