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Go ahead, shoot the messanger....
But Obama hasn't been vetted yet. He will be vetted, but he hasn't been vetted yet.
Independents love John McCain. We don't just like him. We love him. We may not be able to vote for him, and some of us won't, but we love him.
There is no way of knowing which Independents will vote for him and which ones will not until at least the morning of the election. The most consistent trait for Independents is we pretty much stay open to change our minds right up until we vote.
But one thing is for sure. At some point between the first time John McCain's head was being descended into a latrine in a Vietnamese prison camp, and the first time his head was removed from that latrine, he earned the right to have his case heard until the morning of the election.
I'm disgusted by the GOP and their fiscal irresponsibility. And I really want a change in Party for the most part. But John McCain actually winning his primary simply causes all kinds of conflicts for me. It just does. And I haven't a freaken clue what I'm going to do. And every other Independent I know in NH is just as fluid.
I understand this is a partisan board. I'll just share how I feel as honestly as I can and you guys do with it what you please. Consider me one of the members in your Independents' focus group.
And with that I'll just share one more thing since posting this on this board already is pretty dumb. If I were a Republican strategist I would try and bait Democrats into attacking John McCain in a personal way; his conviction, his integrity, his personal mettle. That worked in a South Carolina primary for Bush, but it will not work in a general, and it will not work in a NH general. If you want to beat John McCain you are going to have to do it with issues, civility, and rational arguments - kid gloves, really. Personal attacks will have a backlash, just ask Mitt Romney and Bay Buchanan. And that was in a primary. The backlash will be much more austere in a general.
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Independents love John McCain. We don't just like him. We love him. We may not be able to vote for him, and some of us won't, but we love him.
There is no way of knowing which Independents will vote for him and which ones will not until at least the morning of the election. The most consistent trait for Independents is we pretty much stay open to change our minds right up until we vote.
But one thing is for sure. At some point between the first time John McCain's head was being descended into a latrine in a Vietnamese prison camp, and the first time his head was removed from that latrine, he earned the right to have his case heard until the morning of the election.
I'm disgusted by the GOP and their fiscal irresponsibility. And I really want a change in Party for the most part. But John McCain actually winning his primary simply causes all kinds of conflicts for me. It just does. And I haven't a freaken clue what I'm going to do. And every other Independent I know in NH is just as fluid.
I understand this is a partisan board. I'll just share how I feel as honestly as I can and you guys do with it what you please. Consider me one of the members in your Independents' focus group.
And with that I'll just share one more thing since posting this on this board already is pretty dumb. If I were a Republican strategist I would try and bait Democrats into attacking John McCain in a personal way; his conviction, his integrity, his personal mettle. That worked in a South Carolina primary for Bush, but it will not work in a general, and it will not work in a NH general. If you want to beat John McCain you are going to have to do it with issues, civility, and rational arguments - kid gloves, really. Personal attacks will have a backlash, just ask Mitt Romney and Bay Buchanan. And that was in a primary. The backlash will be much more austere in a general.