It was two months ago today, I wrote about McCain’s program to reward trolls for spreading the campaign’s message (or, as Dubya would put it…to “kind-a catapult the propaganda.”
The idea was that the McCain campaign would offer “Today’s Talking Points” to their web-savvy faithful, who would then plaster the “good news” on web sites across the land. The enthusiasm behind the “movement” and the sheer repetition of the message would gradually convert Americans into loyal McCain followers. You know…the same way the Ron Paul campaign was able to win the hearts and minds of a majority of Americans.
So…I stop back two months later, and what do I find? I find that nothing, and I mean nothing has changed on the page in two months. In particular, “Today’s Talking Points” are identical to yesterday’s “Today’s Talking Points” (yes…I checked) and are identical to “Today’s Talking Points” on every one of the dozen or so days I’ve checked the site in the last two months.
Are you surprised? You shouldn’t be. The McCain campaign’s broken (implicit) promise to offer a daily set of discussion points is another symptom of a moribund campaign that will try anything and everything that might offer a quick, low-investment advantage for the campaign. I wonder if anyone has actually received any “reward points” and whether anyone was able to cash in those points for “cool McCain stuff?”
Oh…and one of “Today’s Talking Points” that has remained unchanged for at least 60 “todays” (my emphasis)?
There are serious issues at stake in this election, and serious differences between the candidates. And we will argue about them, as we should. But it should remain an argument among friends; each of us struggling to hear our conscience, and heed its demands; each of us, despite our differences, united in our great cause, and respectful of the goodness in each other.
Seriously! That’s what it says!
But then what do you expect from a man who called his wife a “cunt” in front of aids and reporters?
(via Kausfiles … hot links in the original)
Delayed investigation … hmmmmm: Palin-Obama 2008.
The town hall format theoretically plays to McCain’s strengths and tonight is probably his best chance to connect with voters and give them something to vote for by explaining his plans for the country. It would be a shame (for him, and his campaign) if he wastes this opportunity on sniping at Obama. But I expect that’s what he’ll do. If he does, his objective will be to rattle Obama so Obama will look unpresidential. If Obama handles this well, it is McCain who will look unpresidential, and that would remove the last reason the remaining undecided voters might have for voting for him. So, where McCain’s prospects go from here depends on how he handles himself in tonight’s debate, and Obama is more or less just along for the ride.
@1 As Rezko has raised campaign funds for both Democrats and Republicans (including George W. Bush), maybe he’ll cut a deal that will send some more Republicans to jail.
And Merry Fitzmas to you, sir.
Hmmm, well since McNasty has called his own wife a “cunt” in public, maybe Obama’s strategy should be to subtly needle him in a way that won’t be noticed by the audience to provoke McBoil to explode on stage. A 5-star debate for Obama would be if McKnuckles loses it and slugs him.
@1: Was that from sleazeball Mickey Kaus? About 1% of his predictions are true – the other 99% are total crap. Mickey was sure that WMDs were in Iraq too. Poor Mickey is a total tool.
Here is an intersting quote though, about a national ticket candidate who associated with traitors and Iran:
Yup, this is the party that Todd Palin joined, that Sarah Palin attended and then was a keynote speaker for as recently as 2006.
Here is Vogler again: the founder of the AIP:
and here is the current AIP Chair (EverydayJoe’s successor) on Sarah Palin:
Maybe people in glass houses should not be throwing rocks and palling around with traitors.
Link:http://www.salon.com/opinion/f.....namerican/
What kind of respect can the American people expect if McCain calls the person he should respect the most a “cunt”?
Just askin’……….
RR @ 5: I heard about this being done once, when a doctor was being deposed in a civil lawsuit having absolutely nothing to do with his medical profession (a dispute over a contract). At least a couple of the participants verified the details.
The plaintiff was arguing that the services provided to the doctor were peformed adequately, and the money was due. The doctor refused to pay the money, coming up with all sorts of objections (much later) for why he didn’t owe the money. In response, the Plaintiff’s lawyer laid the groundwork for proving that the real reason the doctor wasn’t paying his client was that the doctor had a terrible temper, and he just got mad at the Plaintiff and was determined not to pay him (or make it as expensive as possible for him to recover).
So the Plaintiff’s lawyer went through the deposition, and the doctor got madder and madder with each question. Finally the doctor had enough, and he stood up, tossed the conference room table to the side, and went after the lawyer. He was restrained just short of assaulting the lawyer.
What got him so mad? The lawyer kept “forgetting” to refer to the doctor as “Doctor”, he kept referring to him as “Mister”. Apparantly that’s all it took to set this guy off.
But McCain’s GOT to do something dramatic. He doesn’t have much time left to change the course of the campaign. I’m expecting some fireworks from him. Whether it will have any impact upon the undecideds I can’t say, because I can’t understand or fathom why anybody would still be undecided in this race.
All Obama has to do is not to make a major mistake. He needs to play it like Joe Biden didn Sarah Palin – just be careful, don’t go for the home run, just keep hitting singles and eventually he will win.
My guess is McCain abandoned the “troll award” program shortly after it was enacted. The prospect of the McCain campaign trying to bribe bloggers to post pro-McCain talking points by giving them campaign knick-knacks was just hilarious. Did they think that only the loyal McCain supporters would visit the McCain site, and reporters, Democratic bloggers, or the just plain curious wouldn’t see it?????
But that probably hasn’t stopped them from actually PAYING trolls to post their garbage.
When we Geritol John trolls post it and get PAID for it, it’s not garbage.