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McCain Ad: He's The "One Man" To Lead
John McCain has a new ad in South Carolina, continuing his "one man" theme that he's been using in recent ads:
The ad presents McCain as just the kind of candidate that many voters like — a brave, patriotic elder statesman. It may well be the right image to have at a time when Rudy Giuliani is tanking, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee are tearing each other to pieces, and McCain himself is moving up in other states like New Hampshire and maybe even Iowa.
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Josh Marshall got it (though to be fair Frank Rich beat him by a few days)
Only Hanoi John can stop the Huckabeast
December 26, 2007 2:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
More and more I like to imagine a general election matchup between John McCain and Hillary Clinton. Which one of them do you think has the strength and experience to lead from day one?
December 26, 2007 3:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
LJ: Lead where? To Iran? Slight edge to McCain. To hundreds more whack-job religioso judges, millionaire tax cuts and the end of womens' freedom over their own bodies? McCain by a landlside.
December 26, 2007 4:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Neither McCain nor Hillary are going to lead anywhere I want to go, so it doesn't really matter. Both voted for the Iraq War, both voted for the Patriot Act, and both voted for No Child Left Behind.
I just think the whole "strength and experience" slogan from the Clinton campaign is laughable and if she tried to use it against McCain I think a whole lot of people would suddenly get the joke. Not sure any of the other Republican candidates would reduce Hillary's slogan to absurdity as effectively as McCain could.
The slogan was obviously adopted because Obama and Edwards are seen as legitimate threats and both are young. A sudden Biden victory in Iowa would result in some pretty comical effects as well.
With respect to "whack-job religioso" folks, all of the major candidates meet the criteria, so I'm not so convinced that any of them would nominate judges that pass your "whack-job" test. So far as I know they all believe in things like people rising from the dead and getting on your knees and wishing really really hard for something.
Camp Hillary opposes increasing the cap on social security earnings beyond the current $97,500. Odds are that McCain does too. They'll both throw tax cut bones to the middle class, so no difference there.
Would McCain end abortion? I doubt it. But if he wanted to take a stab at it, the pro-life Democratic Senate Majority Leader might work with him on it.
December 26, 2007 6:18 PM | Reply | Permalink