McCain camp wants your attention
Update: Yawn.
So, Team McCain is trying to steal some of Barackopolis’s buzz tonight with an EXCITING AND UNPRECEDENTED NEW AD! I guess I’m supposed to be swooning about this e-mail just in from the McCain camp, but with the capitulationist/McCain-ized GOP platform still burning my eyes and the Obama thug tactics on my front burner, this is just not putting a thrill up my leg. How about yours?
Ho-hum:
All: Please be on the lookout for an exciting and unprecedented new McCain ad we’ll release later today. Please see Communications Director Jill Hazelbaker talk about it this morning on “Morning Joe”:
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Apparently the McCain campaign has an ad rolling out tonight. What’s it about?
JILL HAZELBAKER: Well, Mika, this is a historic ad. I think this is the first of its kind. Senator McCain is going to speak direct to camera to Barack Obama. I’m not going to give away many more details than that. But suffice to say it’s going to be a very exciting ad, and I think it’s going to get a lot of attention.
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BRZEZINSKI: Jill, you’ve got to give us more on this ad. He’s speaking directly to camera, John McCain is to Barack Obama. If you say there’s news here, what’s the news?
HAZELBAKER: Well, I’m going to keep a lid on it. But I think it’s newsworthy to note that Senator McCain is going to have an ad that’s going to air in battleground states around the time that Senator Obama is speaking tonight. And he’s going to be talking directly to his opponent. So, I’m going to leave it there, but it’s going be very exciting and a lot of people are going to focus on it.
Eh.
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maybe he’s going to ask him to be his VEEP…
Soooo…is McCain going to look into the camera and politely with Obama on…what? At this point, he isn’t much different.
Perhaps he will outline the new Environmental and Hispandering planks.
Color me unimpressed.
Should read “politely disagree”.
Any attention the McCain camp gets today will probably be from news of his VP selection leaking out.
Wonder if Mccain is going to tell B. HUSSIEN that he is more for getting Illegals citizenship than he is or could it be Mccain is more for health care than B. HUSSIEN.
I bet you one thing the ad will not be about and that is him saying how a true consevative that he is and how he is for all the ideas and values that are what make up a true conservative.
ENGLISH –please- Mc…..
I’ll admit I’m curious, but I’m not expecting anything earthshattering.
The ad will have McAmnesty on his knees at the Mexican border letting Mexicans step on his back to climb the non-existent wall into America. He will be speaking to the camera and bragging to Obama that he loves god’s children more than Obama.
mccain: to my friends, God’s children, I’d like to say viva la raza!! vote for me, and let the reconquista begin!!!
I think he’s going to put a stick in our eye with his veep.
Lieberman or Ridge-2 Libs and pro-choice
mccain: and to all you spawns of satan, yanqi gringo conservatives…you have no where else to go, so ya gotta vote for me….suckers!!! heheheheheeh
Dear God…have I been rediredted to Daily Kos? What the hell is wrong with you people. I have issues with McCain too, but let’s be real. The laternative is truly, truly frightening.
I’m sure Captain Ed at Hot Air is excited.
The lemmings justifying McCain’s liberalism make me think there are very few conservatives left in the nation.
Thank you Michelle for being one of the few remaining standard-bearers out there.
McCain and exciting in the same sentence. I don’t think so, snooze…
The McCain people are actually doing quite well with their ads and they (the ads) appear to be surprisingly effective. The problem is that while they are necessary (however did our ancestors manage without YouTube?), they are hardly sufficient. McCain needs to forge a strong, positive, reasoned campaign that will energize the base, attract independents, and isolate the democrats. It could be done. A president elected in 1980 did it.
[Why are you laughing? What did I say? Am I missing something? Seriously. Huh?]
Are you serious? YGBSM.
Fix yourself.
If it is the one Ann Althouse called “devastating” to B. Hussein, then, yes it is a GREAT ad!!!
More interested in my Daughters Birthday and some Football…
Oregon State at Stanford 8:00 p.m. ESPN2 (HD)
Mr McCain needs to be careful or the Obama… I mean the Denver Police department will have him arrested or the Chicago Thug-a-matic machine will ‘take care of him, no matter where he is located.
#13- “The lemmings justifying McCain’s liberalism make me think there are very few conservatives left in the nation.
Thank you Michelle for being one of the few remaining standard-bearers out there.”
Give me a break! MM a standard-bearer for the Conservatives?? Fred Thompson was the ONLY real Conservative running this election and did MM support him or his campaign??
No.
Fred Thompson had the BEST immigration plan, tax plan, and Soc. Security plan. And yet this blog only ridiculed him for his campaign strategies…or for being too late in entering the race. Sheesh, give me a break.
So don’t give me that “standard-bearer” for Conservatives BS.
Football! Now there’s an attention getter. For me it’s Saturday night, Clemson vs Alabama. I’m rooting for the Tigers.
McCain is going to ask Obama if they can switch “Joes” for the VP slot.
Hilarious!
Please tell me he’s going to cop to being client #8.
McCain got my attention yesterday when the verbage platform he wants to stand on was put out yesterday.
Yes, I suspect that McCain will propose a “National Unity” government and ask BHO to serve as “co-president.”
They can then stroll down the lane, hand-in-hand, toward the “hope-n-change” they plan to
foist onbring to America.My friends…
It’s really a shame to see what changes have been going on here.
Waht??? No caption contest??? Someone photoshop his mug in a TV and let’s get this party started!!!
McCain to Obama:
“Whar do I get me one of them halo’s?”
“How do I get the pleebs to worship me?”
The McCain ads are newsworthy because they are amazingly sleazy. Are they planning to outdo themselves in mud?
Yes it is. Care to defend the new PC GOP platform while you’re here?
Didn’t one of the Democrat talking-heads say last night, that Obama is going to change the way he has been campaigning, or something like that?
I wonder if this will be McCain’s response to that “heads up”…
Maybe he’s going to ask Odopey for a loan.. oh wait, not wise to take money from crooks. neeeeeeeeevermind.
Shouldn’t you be teaching kids how horrible America is in your math class?
P.D.F.T.T.
I HOPE it’s about Ayers. Obama will be so very screwed.
Who would have predicted it…lgm thinks the words of the leaders of his party are “sleazy?”
Too bad McCain never read this Zogby poll, which shows that both Republicans AND Democrats want law enforcement as was expressed in HR 4437 and now in the SAVE Act, not “Comprehensive” rewards for illegal aliens as expressed by his notorious Z visa (rejected THREE times!). Attrition through enforcement would have been a winning political stance across both parties – not to mention the correct moral, legal, and EFFECTIVE thing to do.
Too bad he doesn’t listen to the American people, so why should I listen to him?
So we would have to watch Obama’s moment to see the earth-shattering ad. Why would he want to encourage us to watch the opponent?
lgm,
Didn’t I see you in one of Jason’s videos? Something about signing a petition for ESPN-1 and ESPN-2 for your comrades in GITMO? That was one big group of Idiots so I know you were there being “The Idiot”.
PBoilermaker—My Friends–beat me to it. I keep getting urgent e-mails about contributing to McCain–he has until 8/31 and then he can only accept public funding. I won’t be giving him or the repubs a plug nickle until I see who his VP is. He will surely poke conservatives in the eye one more time. My friends, I propose Barack and I immediately introduce a joint bill to grant amnesty to all illegals, cease and desist all raids such as that cruel raid in Mississippi, and grant free tuition to any public university for our new citizens. Viva America!
No, what is truly more frightening is suffering 4 years of McCain (with a Democratic Congress), then, because of his inevitable failings due to having virtually the same platform as the Democrats, the Republicans losing even more seats in the Congress in 2010 and 2012, and losing the White House to Obama (or possibly Clinton). That scares me more than having Obama in the White House for 4 years, which will do nothing but mobilize conservatives in ways we haven’t seen in decades.
My solution: I’m going to use the write-in option and vote on principle (Duncan Hunter seems alright, maybe Fred Thompson.) It’s time for the Republicans to stop assuming we’ll vote for just anybody they throw at us. I’m also going to do what I can to make sure that a conservative gets elected to Congress from my State/district (such as Steve Sauerberg over Dick Durbin.)
Great catch – ROFL
He may have read it, then disregarded it. He knows best, amigos.
Can’t the old man get it through his thick skull that we want the laws enforced? Deport the Illegal invaders and fine companies that hire them. Cut off federal funding for any sanctuary city and bam, he would win all “57″ states.
He’s a liberal (I mean idiot)
whenever a lib squeals its because the truth hurts.
Fire Juan Hernandez and you can have my attention.
Um, OK. Enjoy Emperor Obama and a 60 vote majority. Enjoy higher taxes, more justices like Ruth Bader Ginsberg, universal healthcare, partial birth abortion drive-thrus, the fairness doctrine, etc, etc, etc. Seems to me your “conservative” hero Mitt Romney created a healthcare mess in Massachusetts, GWB is in favor of shamnesty and spends like a drunken Kennedy. Whom exactly would the “conservatives” like as their representative for President?
Mccain is who we are stuck with. I certainly want no part of Emperor Obama, who will have Pelosi and Reid to play with. You are all geniuses.
Hey McInsane, Amber needed your attention.
Well…you don’t see Thompson running for pres. now do you? He DID enter too late.
Hey McAmnesty, the Dilks need your attention.
Newsflash, turbo: Many of us will hold our noses and vote for McCain to avoid an Obama presidency. What we won’t do, however, is become McCain fanboys like you.
The people who post here are politically aware. We aren’t the people who need your preaching about how an Obama presidency will destroy the country.
If you want to do some good, explain the situation to someone who doesn’t understand how screwed we are as a country. I the meantime, we are going to vent about the fact that McCain is an insult to Conservatives everywhere despite the fact that he is what we have to counter the Socialist alternative.
Same here.
Oh by the way, according to what I’ve been hearing from pundits on Fox News, McCain is doing a wonderful job of bringing the conservative base together to support him. It’s more like he knows he’s got us over a barrell.
I’m SO dreading the next 4 years.
Hey McCrazy, these three children need your attention. (I’m going to keep posting these, as the more I look, the more I get P!$$ed.)
You have a very shortsighted view of things. Did you read my previous comments on this? What do you think McCain will do to the Republican party? Where will it stand in 2012? How many seats in Congress will have been lost by then?
Why would I defend something that I oppose (as far as global warming and not drilling in ANWR is concerned.)
Go dangle your worm in front of someone elses face.
Artbyruth said that Thompson had the best….! I agree that he is the only Republican completely prepared to be the POTUSA. His credentials are “stellar”! Also, if conservative bloggers at this site want McCain to “listen” to them, then go to McCain’s website: JohnMcCain’08 and tell him what you EXPECT him to do on the critical issues: energy – drilling, immigration, national security, and putting out Ads that counter the Obama LIES on “his taxes will help the middle class more than McCain’s” etc. Obama is a “knee-jerk idealogue” just like Kerry was, and I am sick of the “DemWit Talking Heads” that continue to cover BHO’s “gafs”! with Biden, all of the DemWits will be working overtime trying to “explain away” and “clean-up” the “do-do” they keep stepping in! If you are tired of it, go to McCain’s site and tell his aides STOP the DemWits from brainwashing Americans with the notion that they care more about minorities, undereducated, the poor, the middle class, etc. People do not know their history! Check out David Barton and his American Heritage Series at wallbuilders.com JK
Hey McAmnesty, there are stories all over the place that need YOUR ATTENTION.
Really, the ONLY conservative? My b*tt. Hunter/Tancredo were light years ahead of Thompson. Their records on illegal immigration also trashed Thompson’s. Hey, he was a good guy and much much much perferable to mcamensty but you are completely uninformed with that commment. And as has been pointed out, he did wait too long to join the race.
lgm said:
Lgm my man, you don’t lend credence to your cause when most of the MSM ads are Left Wing oriented.
Jill that is SUPER.
I most certainly am not a McCain fan. However, tell me who is our standard bearer in the republican party (who ran this year). And, let me ask you “conservatives” what exactly are the blatant differences between McCain and Bush. Seems to me President Bush misplaced HIS conservative values along the way. Seriously, how are they different? You suggest McCain is an insult to conservatives (which I agree with), but tell me how President Bush is not…or for that matter whom YOUR choice is not an insult…
Is Bush running? lol
If he is he gets my vote.
He probably could not damage it more than President Bush has…
That could blow up in McInsane’s face. Daley was out defending Ayers last night on all the good he’s done with the Chicago School system. Hell, I think he might have hired LGM.
sarc/
Um, no he is not…but I think we can blame him for screwing the Republican party. Again, since you are so bright…what exactly are the differences between a “conservative” like President Bush and John McCain?
McAmnesty, here’s another victim that needs your attention.
Same here. At least HE would piss off the liberals. Liberals at this point are not too alarmed with McCain and, why should they be?
Send_Me. You are spot on with I too fear. Kudos.
When did I say I was a fan of W as far as his moderate-liberal policies? He was the LOTE between Gore and Kerry, though.
4 years of Bush Sr., 8 years of (shudder) Clinton, and 8 years of W.
We haven’t had a Conservative standard bearer in office for the last 20 years. It gets a bit old when in election after election, Conservatives have to compromise with moderate choices while the liberal nutjobs get exactly what they want in their candidates.
The recent batch of candidates may have had some more conservative “conservatives”, but our (R) candidate was picked (again) by moderates.
Bush is a jerk too! He promoted McAmnesty’s shamnesty plan. “See you at the signing1″
I will be glad when Bush is gone…
Hey McInsane, have you found Jesus?
Was Bush also not the “lesser of two evils?” Why then should we continue this cycle of ineptitude by voting for McCain? How do you think we got in this position? It’s because too many people gave up their autonomy as sentient beings who vote with their brains and conscience, not out of convenience.
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.” ~John Quincy Adams
You can go back and look when Bush’s ratings started to tank. It’s when he started Hispandering to the illegal invaders.
Are you enjoying yourself, John Ansell?
Perhaps this is an attempt to force (trick?) Obama into an un-scripted, off-teleprompter response to charges?
If he (Obama) actually risked it, there is great gaffe potential there.
Are you reading them, Wise Man? How dare you ask a question like that to my memorials.
maybe s. kurtz can inform folks of what happens when you seek to find the background of any chicago gangsta. “he brings a knife, you bring a gun. that’s the chicago way.”
What McCain needs to do is just STFU and disappear for a couple of months. Obama is doing a good enough job of running McCain’s campaign without any interference from John.
Just for Wiseman.
Is that your measure of success?
Hey Wise Guy, why do you support this?
Dear John McCain,
You want to do something “exciting, unprecedented, and historic, that will get a lot of attention”?
Step away from the nomination.
Let the convention nominate a conservative who respects Values Voters, American Energy Independence, and Sessions’ 15 point action plan to restore law and order to America’s broken immigration system.
John, I understand that as the son and grandson of US Admirals, you have an ego-driven need to show your mother that you can be President.
But please, do what’s best for the country, not what’s best for you.
Sincerely,
Red Pill
Just for John Ansell: I hope you enjoy your quest in trashing McCain in the pursuit of a pure conservative ticket that will never materialize against Obama.
Some of us have come to the realization that the republican primary is over, and that this is now down to a choice between two men. It’s pretty obvious what you are trying to accomplish here.
In the meantime, this version of operation chaos here is helping to create a echo chamber of “McInsane/McAmnesty/whatever” and you will all be shocked to see that Obama ends up being elected, and will be our president for 4 or 8 years.
But please, don’t let the truth ruin your ‘I’m going to keep posting this, McCrazy!’ fun. See you in a little over two months. Take care.
Why don’t you get a clue.
As long as he doesn’t call Obama “my friend” it might be alright.
Hey John, I know you’ve probably seen this since I’ve posted it before, but if you haven’t, check it out.
Juan McAmnesty
And keep your posts coming.
How about this story wise guy?
Agreed.
And both Hunter and Tancredo cared enough about Values Voters (America’s largest voting block) to show up for the Values Voter Debate.
Fred didn’t.
You know why he didn’t?
Because Thompson was one of McCain’s two stalking horses (Giuliani was the other) and all three of them, plus Mitt Romney, gave cover to McCain and themselves by not showing up.
Values Voters can only trust the candidates who showed up for that debate. Pick any two men from that lineup for a P/VP ticket and I’ll be happy. I think the coolest would be Huckabee/Keys.
McCain blew off a Values Voter Debate not once, but twice. The second time was immediately before the Texas primary.
You are expecting me to be happy this happened?
You expect that this is somehow the fault of McCain, and by allowing Obama to win, this will get better, not worse?
What do you want?
No, seriously, what do you want.
Wise Man, I’m trying to get you McCainbots to start writing your man telling him to drop his amnesty push. Please send him a note and if enough of you McCainbots get him to switch on that issue, I’ll vote for the Lote. Until then, It’s hammer away at the La Raza politico.
These stories are heartbreaking… where is John McShame’s love of these children of God who are being senselessly slaughtered at the hands of people who shouldn’t be here?
Why aren’t they his friends too?
Yes, I blame McAmensty and all open border Politicos
Like that story wise man? Why are you going to vote for somebody that allows this to happen?
He is not “my man”. I never voted for him.
And you’ll vote for the ‘lesser’ of two evils, Obama, is that right?
Do you think that McCain reads this website? Do you think that posting links about illegal immigrants on this site will make Juan McAmnesty change his ways?
Please don’t act like the man standing on the street corner shouting at traffic going by that they need to be saved, otherwise they will go to hell. Because this is how your antics look.
Here Wiseman, your McAmensty brought this to this little child.
from june 2001? Wow. And that McAmnesty can time travel too!
Guess what, Another death that could have been avoided.
Obama spent less than 5 months in the Senate before he started to run for POTUS. When did they have time to become friends?
What I see here is some think the “R” behind one candidate’s name make that candidate special.
Honestly – I’m still trying to figure out where McCain’s worldview is all that different than Obama’s.
McCain seems to think it’s ok to kill unborn babies (by even floating the notion of a pro-abort VP he indicates that). Same as Obama.
McCain seems to think open borders are ok. Same as Obama
McCain seems to think there is such a thing as too much profit and any “excess” should go to the government. Same as Obama.
McCain seems to think government is there to “do good” – same as Obama.
McCain seems to dis-regard the constitution as written. To him it seems to be a living breathing document. Same as Obama.
And the list can go on and on.
Do I want Obama – resounding NO. But McCain hasn’t given me much to go on other than he has an R after his name.