It’s the slurs, stupid: McCain campaign to go negative on Obama
Now, I know what you’re thinking: “That’s as opposed to what, exactly?”
But it’s as opposed to talking about how John McCain and Sarah Palin are maaaavericks; and how John McCain was a POW. Did you know he was a POW?
Yes, faced with plummeting polling figures (hurrah!), the McCain campaign is planning to attack Barack Obama relentlessly until election day (boo!).
It is, as they say, all they have left.
From the Washington Post:
“Sen. John McCain and his Republican allies are readying a newly aggressive assault on Sen. Barack Obama’s character, believing that to win in November they must shift the conversation back to questions about the Democrat’s judgment, honesty and personal associations, several top Republicans said.
With just a month to go until Election Day, McCain’s team has decided that its emphasis on the senator’s biography as a war hero, experienced lawmaker and straight-talking maverick is insufficient to close a growing gap with Obama. The Arizonan’s campaign is also eager to move the conversation away from the economy, an issue that strongly favors Obama and has helped him to a lead in many recent polls.
‘We’re going to get a little tougher,’ a senior Republican operative said, indicating that a fresh batch of television ads is coming. ‘We’ve got to question this guy’s associations. Very soon. There’s no question that we have to change the subject here,’ said the operative, who was not authorized to discuss strategy and spoke on the condition of anonymity.”
But guess what? The Obama campaign is responding by… getting their attacks in first - yay! - and releasing an ad tomorrow which calls John McCain “erratic in a crisis”. Apparently this move by the Obama camp is called ‘political jujitsu’. Sounds dreadfully foreign and terrorist-like to me.
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