Finally McCain has an issue he can attack Obama on, and its something every American cares about- Taxes. Recently McCain has been focusing on Obama's past radical connections. While they are very important, the issue wasn't resonating with voters. They were more concerned about the economy and their 401K than the fact that the were about to elect a man who had lengthy ties with former domestic terrorists.
A few days before the last Presidential Debate, Joe the Plumber asked Obama a very important question at a campaign rally in Ohio. "I'm getting ready to buy a company that makes 250, 270, $280,000 a year. You're new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?" Then Obama responds "95% of small businesses make less than $250,000 so I want to give them a tax cut...Nobody like high taxes...For the 5% that are making more, I just want to make sure they are paying a little more to pay for these cuts...When you spread the wealth around its good for everyone". Spread the Wealth Around- 4 words that have changed everything in this race. Joe the Plumber was a huge gift to McCain! It now allows McCain to use taxes as a blue-collar issue. It shows Obama's plan for American Socialism of taxing the rich and then using government programs to give back the poor. Socialism doesn't work, the failure of the Soviet Union proved this to be true. Income redistribution rewards failure and penalizes hard working individuals.
Now McCain has a few effective ads of everyday Americans telling why Obama's tax plan will hurt their families and their small businesses. If he can keep up the tax fight, his chances are much greater November 4th!!!
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
First glasses, now clothes
Shortly after Sarah Palin was named McCain's Vice President, everyone went crazy over her glasses. People all rushed to the eye doctor so they could get her glass. CNN even had a story of how people were waiting months to get her glasses.
Now this week the media has been going crazy of the RNC spending $150,000 on her clothes. It wasn't just the liberal blogs that were going crazy over the story, even mainstream media was all over the story, from the nightly news to even Fox News. The story was even covered by international news outlets. According to financial records from the RNC they almost $50,000 at Saks Fifth Avenue, $75,000 at Neiman Marcus, and almost $5,000 for hair and makeup in September alone. Its not just the Republicans that spend crazy amounts of money to make their candidates look good. Remember John Edward's $400 haircut that he paid with his own campaign money?? In an interview with Fox News after the story broke Palin said, she is a very frugal shopper and while in Alaska she and her family shops at a consignment store in Anchorage. "If people knew how Todd and I and our kids shop so frugally. My favorite shop is a consignment shop in Anchorage, Alaska, called Out of the Closet. And my shoe store is called Shoe Fly in Juneau, Alaska...It's not, you know, Fifth Avenue-type of shopping."
Instead of covering the real issues like the failing economy they are focusing on what Sarah Palin is wearing. Unfortunately Presidential candidates are products, they are marketed and managed by numerous people. They have to look a certain and talk a certain way. Now if Palin were a man, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be news on how much his suit would cost.
Now this week the media has been going crazy of the RNC spending $150,000 on her clothes. It wasn't just the liberal blogs that were going crazy over the story, even mainstream media was all over the story, from the nightly news to even Fox News. The story was even covered by international news outlets. According to financial records from the RNC they almost $50,000 at Saks Fifth Avenue, $75,000 at Neiman Marcus, and almost $5,000 for hair and makeup in September alone. Its not just the Republicans that spend crazy amounts of money to make their candidates look good. Remember John Edward's $400 haircut that he paid with his own campaign money?? In an interview with Fox News after the story broke Palin said, she is a very frugal shopper and while in Alaska she and her family shops at a consignment store in Anchorage. "If people knew how Todd and I and our kids shop so frugally. My favorite shop is a consignment shop in Anchorage, Alaska, called Out of the Closet. And my shoe store is called Shoe Fly in Juneau, Alaska...It's not, you know, Fifth Avenue-type of shopping."
Instead of covering the real issues like the failing economy they are focusing on what Sarah Palin is wearing. Unfortunately Presidential candidates are products, they are marketed and managed by numerous people. They have to look a certain and talk a certain way. Now if Palin were a man, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be news on how much his suit would cost.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Sarah Palin...the next Ronald Reagan??
Well Dick Morris thinks so..... Morris was a Republican strategist before he joined the Clinton administration after the 1992 election. He was responsible for convincing Clinton to adopt Republican principles after the 1994 midterm election.
Morris believes Palin has "originality, charisma, and sass" and is one of the best communicators since Reagan and Clinton. He said she was full of energy and life that Biden did not bring to the debate. Most importantly according to Morris, she was able to speak to the American people, and was able to sympathize with them. She made it a point to tell the American people that her and her husband have always been middle class and she did not understand how Washington worked.
Here is Morris' column published in the New York Post on October 3, 2008-
"Last night was a big, big win for Sarah Palin.
She showed originality, charisma and sass - a style that is refreshing and different in our politics. She didn't just win the vice-presidential debate, she showed that she belongs with Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton as among the best communicators of our modern political times.
Her sallies against big government were brilliantly conceived and well executed. Her line that she didn't understand how Washington worked because politicians vote for something right after they vote against it, for example, was just wonderful.
Another classic came when she bit back at moderator Gwen Ifill and opponent Joe Biden and said she'd answer the questions as she wanted to, not necessarily as they wanted her to do.
Gone, long gone, are the worries about how good or well-prepared Sarah Palin is.
Most important, she showed how John McCain would bring change to Washington. Would that McCain could articulate his own sense of change as well as his running mate did!
For his part, Biden sounded like the warmed-over has-been that he is - he seemed to be on downers. Where she was thrilling and exciting, he was hypnotically boring. He seemed like more of the same, while she seemed like a breath of fresh air.
Without trepidation, she tossed aside the Bush years and spoke of the "blunders" in Iraq. She was able to skewer Wall Street and show Republican opposition to the greed there.
She even handled Biden very well on his turf, foreign policy - meeting him head-to-head on every issue, and winning.
Everyone realizes that Palin has been in this field for only five weeks; her ability, nonetheless, to prevail against a veteran like Biden is a testament to her intellect and skill.
That smiling face, those novel phrases, that informal style - it was all a pleasure and a refreshing change.
And she got her ticket off on the right foot for October - making the tax issue stick and zinging Barack Obama's economic programs and his big-spending plans.
The Alaska governor did a wonderful job of displaying her experience and justifying her candidacy in terms of her expertise on energy issues. It's now far harder to dismiss her as an unqualified flake.
More, she connected in a way that few politicians do: She speaks for us.
Palin did a lot to help McCain last night - illustrated the best about him. But she did more to help herself - vaulting to a leading role among women in American politics. Her authenticity and unique style will be with us for years to come.
Last night's Palin victory will have an immediate impact on the presidential race - arresting McCain's fall and slowing Obama's surge.
The only question is whether it will be enough to reverse Obama's gains of the past week. It might go a long way in that direction."
Morris believes Palin has "originality, charisma, and sass" and is one of the best communicators since Reagan and Clinton. He said she was full of energy and life that Biden did not bring to the debate. Most importantly according to Morris, she was able to speak to the American people, and was able to sympathize with them. She made it a point to tell the American people that her and her husband have always been middle class and she did not understand how Washington worked.
Here is Morris' column published in the New York Post on October 3, 2008-
"Last night was a big, big win for Sarah Palin.
She showed originality, charisma and sass - a style that is refreshing and different in our politics. She didn't just win the vice-presidential debate, she showed that she belongs with Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton as among the best communicators of our modern political times.
Her sallies against big government were brilliantly conceived and well executed. Her line that she didn't understand how Washington worked because politicians vote for something right after they vote against it, for example, was just wonderful.
Another classic came when she bit back at moderator Gwen Ifill and opponent Joe Biden and said she'd answer the questions as she wanted to, not necessarily as they wanted her to do.
Gone, long gone, are the worries about how good or well-prepared Sarah Palin is.
Most important, she showed how John McCain would bring change to Washington. Would that McCain could articulate his own sense of change as well as his running mate did!
For his part, Biden sounded like the warmed-over has-been that he is - he seemed to be on downers. Where she was thrilling and exciting, he was hypnotically boring. He seemed like more of the same, while she seemed like a breath of fresh air.
Without trepidation, she tossed aside the Bush years and spoke of the "blunders" in Iraq. She was able to skewer Wall Street and show Republican opposition to the greed there.
She even handled Biden very well on his turf, foreign policy - meeting him head-to-head on every issue, and winning.
Everyone realizes that Palin has been in this field for only five weeks; her ability, nonetheless, to prevail against a veteran like Biden is a testament to her intellect and skill.
That smiling face, those novel phrases, that informal style - it was all a pleasure and a refreshing change.
And she got her ticket off on the right foot for October - making the tax issue stick and zinging Barack Obama's economic programs and his big-spending plans.
The Alaska governor did a wonderful job of displaying her experience and justifying her candidacy in terms of her expertise on energy issues. It's now far harder to dismiss her as an unqualified flake.
More, she connected in a way that few politicians do: She speaks for us.
Palin did a lot to help McCain last night - illustrated the best about him. But she did more to help herself - vaulting to a leading role among women in American politics. Her authenticity and unique style will be with us for years to come.
Last night's Palin victory will have an immediate impact on the presidential race - arresting McCain's fall and slowing Obama's surge.
The only question is whether it will be enough to reverse Obama's gains of the past week. It might go a long way in that direction."
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