McCain's New Strategy: "Take Ownership Of The Surge"
As we noted here some time ago, the McCain campaign's current game plan is to try and make the case that the surge's "success" will be just the thing to turn around his candidacy. Now comes news of an internal McCain campaign memo confirming this strategy in black and white:
The first phase of our September strategy is to take ownership of the surge and demonstrate again that John McCain is the only candidate running for President who is prepared to be Commander-in-Chief from day one.
This will be the cornerstone of McCain's "No Surrender" tour, which will unfold throughout September. Of course, there are no doubt lots of folks out there who are happy to let McCain have the "surge" -- and the war that comes with it -- all to himself.
Comments (6)
Kelly Burnett wrote on September 10, 2007 10:51 AM:Every time he opens his mouth he shows himself to be completely out of touch, when will our elected representatives start listening to their constituents. McCain is a panderer and lack convictions.
Mike Bakunin wrote on September 10, 2007 10:54 AM:In touch with Republican primary voters; out of touch with America.
David wrote on September 10, 2007 11:09 AM:It appears if anyone was correct about how to bring about anything close to a reasonable end to our involvement in Iraq it would be Joe Biden. The "soft" partitioning of Iraq has been Biden's mantra for about three years now. Sectarian violence forced most regions of Iraq into a self-organized partition of sorts. By default sectarian violence dropped because no one of the opposing sect remained in the neighborhood.
Sunni sheiks, in Sunni dominated regions, began fighting foreign insurgents before the current surge was made public. They joined with the Americans when they realized it was to their advantage.
So, Senator McCain, maybe you should make a financial donation to Joe Biden. It appears he may have been correct with regard to a partition of Iran.
demwinger wrote on September 10, 2007 11:10 AM:McCain exposes himself as a horrible campaigner. when you get handed re-election every 6 years you forget how to campaign.
Will wrote on September 10, 2007 11:34 AM:I think I remember McCain saying, before the surge, that he would not support any surge unless it was much larger than the one the President proposed--so he didn't support the surge because it was too small. Now McCain is pretending he never said that and trying to take credit for the success of the surge that he opposed?? What a joke.
Redshift wrote on September 10, 2007 1:07 PM:McCain does seem determined to grab every anchor available. He started off grabbing the big one (being buddy-buddy with Bush just as his reputation began to plummet), and pretty much his only option has been to repeatedly double down, since his only hope for success is the vanishingly small possibility that Bush manages to succeed.
