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Hot Air » Top Picks: New McCain ad: Democrats love a Maverick!
Political Radar: Who's that "Praising McCain"?
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The Jawa Report: Video : Liberal Democrats (Heart) McCain
Open Left - Front Page: Opening the Day: Newt Wants To Shut the Government Down Again Over Drilling
New McCain ad: Democrats love a Maverick!
Hot Air » Top Picks —
New McCain ad: Democrats love a Maverick! posted at 10:00 am on August 7, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly The second ad in as many days to display the “Maverick” brand, part of his strategy to claim America’s new center-left median voter while nudging Obama towards the fringe. He’s taken heat for having a schizophrenic message but watching this reminds you why it’s necessarily so: It’ll take a wide, wide straddle between the GOP base and that median to win, so wide that he’s forced to tout endorsements aimed at one group that would actually infuriate the other. Which, incidentally, ...
Who's that "Praising McCain"?
Political Radar —
The Note: Obama vs. Clinton: The Battle Continues | Main Who's that "Praising McCain"? August 07, 2008 10:04 AM ABC News’s Bret Hovell reports: Who said it?"I admire Senator McCain greatly." "I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience he will bring to the White House." "I believe the right approach begins with the proposal put forward by…Senator McCain." Do names of Republicans pop to mind? Would you believe Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, respectively? A new web-only ad from the McCain campaign compiles seven quotes from seven prominent Democrats, each one offering compliments for the presumptive Republican ...
Dems Praise McCain In New Ad (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
One-minute long political web ads have one primary audience, aside from political junkies: the press.
Like another recent spot from John McCain's campaign -- "Broken" -- their latest seems intended to burnish the Arizona Republican's "Maverick" credentials among journalists who could be starting to wonder whether he's become just another regular hack politician in light of recent harsh attacks on Barack Obama.
So the campaign brings us a piece called "Praising John McCain," which features a string of top Democratic heavyweights bestowing praise on the presumptive Republican nominee. ...
Video : Liberal Democrats (Heart) McCain
The Jawa Report —
August 07, 2008 Video : Liberal Democrats (Heart) McCain h/t : Allahpundit By Ragnar Danneskjold, Typical Bitter Gun-Clinger at August 7, 2008 09:18 AM | | l digg this
Opening the Day: Newt Wants To Shut the Government Down Again Over Drilling
Open Left - Front Page —
Dog days of summer.
Newt Gingrich wants Republicans to shut the government down over drilling. Here's Tom Daschle.
"The Republicans haven't had much luck with shutdowns in recent years, and I can't imagine that this would be any different," he said. "The American people want to see progress, they want to see comity, they want to see bipartisanship. They want to see some action, not shutdowns. I can't imagine they would fare any better this time."
Bleh.
Arianna writes about the Politics of Nothing. Yup, that's 2008.
McCain's new ad emphasizes the disgusting bipartisan ...
You Know Who Loves McCain? All Those Democratic Senators Republicans Can't Stand
Ace of Spades HQ —
You Know Who Loves McCain? All Those Democratic Senators Republicans Can't Stand After a week or two of drawing sharp distinctions between themselves and Obama (and seeing a corresponding cut in The One's lead) the McCain camp apparently felt they were in danger of attracting too many Republican and conservative voters. The ad doesn't carry the McCain-Feingold mandated, "I'm John McCain and I approve this message" tag, so at this point it's web only. Given that type of distribution, will it really attract more attention from independents and disaffected Democrats than it pisses off conservatives and Republicans who are more likely to see it?
Matt Lewis: Crazy McCain ...
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
Check out his new web ad, which features Democrats praising McCain ...
Who can really bring us together? Republican and Democrat
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE —
No, not THE ONE. The Maverick.
McCain webad: Praise for McCain
Ben Smith's Blog —
It's a perennial, and it showcases one of Hillary's few really biting, damaging lines:
I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House, and Senator Obama has a speech that he gave in 2002.
At slightly lower velocity:
Russ Feingold: "He's a great guy."
Needless to say, many of the speakers look a bit younger in the webad than they are now.
Daily Digest: Do Sockpuppets Belong in Politics?
techPresident —
The Web on the Candidates
Stop the citizen-presses! Decision ‘08, a competition launched earlier this year by MySpace, NBC News, and msnbc.com to find two citizen journalists to cover the national conventions has selected its winners. Matt Britten and Sara Pat Badgley were chosen by over 50,000 users with their video submissions that answered “How will you stand out in the crowd and get the scoop no one else can?” Matt Britten, who pulls an Eddie Murphy and plays every role in his video, tells us “I’m Matt Britten and I want Decision ’08 to send me to the convention so ...
Top Democrats Who Praise McCain
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Mavericky Goodness
Weekly Standard Blog —
Above is the McCain campaign’s new ad. Not that anyone asked my opinion, but I like it. Facing an unpleasant reality, there’s no way a normal Republican would have had a chance in the 2008 general election. The Republican brand at this moment is badly damaged and in disrepute. It’s something of a miracle that John McCain became the party’s nominee. It’s a happy miracle, since he’s the only nominee who would have had a chance.
The Mavericky heresies that McCain has indulged in over the past seven years are precisely what make him electable. And though the Maverick ...
McCain's Latest Racially Subliminal Negative Attack Ad
JammieWearingFool —
Really sinking into the gutter now. Intellectual titan Bob Herbert was unavailable for comment. Labels: John McCain
From the Mouths of Dems: Praise for McCain
The Caucus —
August 7 0 comments From the Mouths of Dems: Praise for McCain The McCain campaign releases another Web ad, this one using compliments — over the last several years — from leading senators in the opposing party. August 7 37 comments The Early Word: Faith on the Trail Religion remains an important topic in the presidential race as both candidates seek to explain their faith to the American people and court religious voters. August 7 55 comments Accord on the Tire-Gauge Question After telling a caller to a teleconference that, yes, keeping tires well inflated is a good thing, Senator John McCain seemed to signal that the matter ...
The McCain-Clinton Axis
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
The latest sign of what Hillary delivered to John against the Democratic nominee.
When Will the McCain Campaign Drop the O-Bomb?
AMERICAN DIGEST —
It's fun to watch the slow roll out of "Undermining-O Videos" from the McCain Search and Destroy Squad such as Democrats Praising McCain
But I'd like to know when they are going to quit being so damned creative and just put this one into heavy rotation on every television channel in the land.
After all, why let others speak for McCain and against Obama when Obama does it so well all by himself. He sounds more sincere and committed here than he has in months.
The tag could be: "I'm John ...
Easist Comeback Ever
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
--Previous Post | Blog Index | Next Post-- Easist Comeback Ever It's time for dueling web videos! From the McCain campaign: And the obvious Democratic response: [image] Comments
Why "Maverick" McCain's "Dems like me" ad is pointless
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Amy Weiss The latest McCain ad, " Praising McCain " features clips of prominent Democrats saying nice things about him. Many of these clips are years old, some are not given in full context, but it proves a point that yes, some Democrats have said nice things about John McCain. What's silly about this ad is its assertion that a few kind words mean McCain is the most bipartisan politician ever. The ad uses the word "maverick" twice in the 60-second spot as if saying it enough makes it true. DNC Chairman Howard Dean, who was one of the Democrats featured in "Praising McCain," was quick to point out this statement ...
Uh-oh. McCain Is Up to His Racist Antics, Again.
Little Miss Attila —
Uh-oh. McCain Is Up to His Racist Antics, Again. What a freakin' redneck that guy is. Via Jammie Wearing Fool, via Insty.
Carol Platt Liebau: Now You Love Him . . . Now You Don't
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
The Democrats who appear in an ad praising Senator McCain are now blasting him for using their own words against them. Most noteworthy, of course, is the denunciation of Francophile Jacques Kerry (a man who does, indeed, know a little something about flip-flopping ). He's clearly the most dishonorable of the lot, having not only sought to put John McCain on his presidential ticket four years ago, but also having benefited from McCain's defense of his military service back in 2004. The larger point about the ad, of course, is that it helps McCain with independents -- and, as a big bonus -- makes ...
THE VIDEO YOU MUST SHOW TO EVERY DEMOCRAT: BIGTIME DEMOCRATS PRAISING MCCAIN
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
McCain Campaign Yanks “True Conservative” Ad from YouTube, Web Site
Crooks and Liars —
Just one day after the McCain campaign proclaimed its man the “Original Maverick,” Barack Obama blasted that assertion both on the stump and in a new ad of his own. “You can’t be a maverick when politically it’s working for you,” Obama ...
Have You Noticed That John McCain Has Changed... A Lot?
DownWithTyranny! —
Early this morning, McCain's lobbyists released a new ad with clips of Democrats-- Biden, Daschle, Hillary, Kerry, Howard Dean-- all saying something positive about him. The DNC responded with more up to date reactions about what these same Democrats think of his current campaign. As Howard Dean sums it up, "The John McCain of 2000 wouldn't vote for this John McCain. We don't need another four years of George Bush." Take a look:
The best political ad of ‘o8 so far
Roger L. Simon —
See if you agree.
Dems Praise McCain
The New Editor —
Democrats Praising McCain
Classical Values —
Democrats Praising McCain Even Obama has good things to say about McCain. Of course this won't help him with hard core Republicans who believe electing a Marxist is better than electing McCain. I have a different opinion.
“Maverick No More”
Crooks and Liars —
After the McCain campaign put out this ad showing various Democratic politicians praising the senior Senator for his mavricky maverickness, the Dems’ Rapid Response Team put out this ad, in which the same politicians talk about how 2000 McCain is nothing like McCain ...
Let Me Count the Ways.
INSTAPUTZ —
Via Putz, the excitable Mr. Llorens asks: How Can Obama NOT Pick Hillary For VP? Easily. Btw, since Armando is on a first name basis with Senator Clinton, he probably shouldn't call anyone -- least of all the pragmatic Nate Silver -- an "Obamabot."
Barack’s Helpful Hints for Sarah
Pajamas Media —
Barack Obama has been on the campaign trail longer than Sarah Palin - here are some pointers he might want to share. [image] My dear Sarah*, Welcome to the campaign trail as the other new kid on the national block. Even though you were elected ...
ONE REASON THE RACE IS CLOSER THAN THE DEMOCRATS EXPECTED: THEY NEVER EXPECTED MCCAIN TO WIN THE GOP NOMINATION
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
The Dems really thought Iraq was lost and that McCain would NOT get the nomination, and that they'd be running against Romney. That's why they told the truth and said all those nice things about McCain: they thought they could get him to switch parties. But they were wrong about Iraq and McCain, and that's why we have a close race even though the economy is shaky. McCain was right about Iraq - and prescient about Fannie Mae: he proposed tightening controls in it in 2005, but his Fannie Mae proposal was blocked by the Democrats. The Democrats tried ...
