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By Erick Posted in 2008 — Comments (6) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
The idiots over at MoveOn.org are out with a political ad attacking John McCain for supporting the President's war policies.
The ad is purportedly designed to hurt John McCain. Um, considering Senator Brownback's stance and the Idiot Hagel's stance, am I foolish for thinking Weaver could be behind this -- running this ad to actually help John McCain in the 2008 Republican Primary?
Discuss.
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And I can say that my wife, who is not into politics at all, was so turned off by seeing this add already that I can guarantee that anything put forth or supported by moveon will not get any support from her.
I don't think it will help or hurt McCain in the Iowa primary anyway. I'll be surprised if he comes in better than 4th.
as I am against John McCain. Neither position is going to change, and I can't imagine anyone like me being influenced by the Moveon nitwits. And Moveon certainly isn't aiming the ad at their own Hate America crowd.
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
I don't understand at all what they're trying to achieve. I have little doubt that association with the war in Iraq will continue to be a substantial electoral negative right through to 2008. Given that, I would have thought that people rooting for a Democratic president would want McCain to be the nominee. Turning off McCain's independent support base now pretty much means that he won't win the GOP nomination, which makes it more likely that the GOP will end up nominating someone who has some distance between him and the war, which will make a GOP victory more likely.
MoveOn must really be afraid of McCain if they are running ads..now...in January...of 2007.
But seriously, explain to me the logic of the dems wanting to nominate McCain as stated above. According to a National Journal Hotline Poll, McCain garners more than 40% of the vote in match-ups against Clinton (48% to 39%), Obama (43% to 38%), and Edwards (45% to 35%). No Republican in the study came close to that amount of dominance as Rudy lost to Edwards.
You are assuming, unsubstantially, that McCain will begin to fade down the stretch. That, my friend Gary, is a dangerous assumption.
Although I disagree that Weaver is up to any tricks (again, MoveOn = idiots), I concur that this web ad will help McCain in NH, at least in the short term. People want to win in Iraq, not surrender. You can be for the War but against the policies implemented thus far. Support among Republicans for the overall war and Bush foreign policy is still very strong.
Showing McCain with Bush can't be a bad thing to conservatives in NH.
We shall see what the polls show post-MoveOn Attack Ad....
Also a little risky unless they figure the democratic congress will kill our efforts in Iraq no matter what, with the MSM pinning it on the republicans.
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I think you answered your own question with your first sentence. They're just idiots.
I don't think we need to look for conspiracies in what they do. I also don't think this will help McCain in the primaries, he can't win anyway. But I am surprised they haven't launched any anti-Hillary ads yet. After all SHE supports the war.
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