In case you were wondering why it's not about issues

[Hans Deventer]

This analysis (http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080913/pl_politico/13412) made a lot of sense to me.

“We recognize it’s not going to be 2000 again,” McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said, alluding to the media’s swooning coverage of McCain’s ill-fated crusade against then-Gov. George W. Bush and the GOP establishment. “But he lost then. We’re running a campaign to win. And we’re not too concerned about what the media filter tries to say about it.”

Rogers, who hung tough with McCain through the dark days of the primary and has lived through every high and low of this turbulent and unpredictable race, argues that they tried to run a high-ground campaign and sought to keep the candidate in front of the media in the fashion he enjoys. His point: No one paid any attention.

“We ran a different kind of campaign and nobody cared about us. They didn’t cover John McCain. So now you’ve got to be forward-leaning in everything,” he said.

“Every day not talking about the economy, the war and how to fix a broken system is a victory for McCain,” said John Weaver, a former top strategist to the nominee who left the campaign last year. “They’re going to ride it as long as they can and as long as the mainstream media puts up every ridiculous charge.”

Well, that's straight talk.

[Bruce Carriker]

When you have no issues to run on, you resort to lies, slander, misinformation, and beauty contests.

[John Kennedy]

Kind of like the advice to a young lawyer from an old lawyer:

When you're weak on the law, talk equity.
When you're weak on equity, talk law.
When you're weak on both, talk louder.

[Jim Franklin]

As for me and my house the election is strictly and only about the issues and the need to clean up and render a federal government that WORKS for its employers, THE PEOPLE.

[Bruce Carriker]

As for me and my house the election is strictly and only about the issues and the need to clean up and render a federal government that WORKS for its employers, THE PEOPLE.

Here is an exact quote from McCain's acceptance speech: "We were elected to change Washington, and we let Washington change us."

So, if you really feel this issue is about changing the government so that it works for the people, how can you support the candidate of the party who has spent the last eight years...and twenty of the last twenty-eight years...failing in that effort?

[Hans Deventer]

Here is an exact quote from McCain's acceptance speech: "We were elected to change Washington, and we let Washington change us."

But it is straight talk, Bruce, you can't deny that. The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

[Bruce Carriker]

But it is straight talk, Bruce, you can't deny that. The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

It is that, Hans. But you didn't answer my question.

If I've been your bus driver for twenty of the last twenty eight years; I consistently steer the bus toward the ditch; and I've finally got the bus firmly stuck in the ditch; why should you believe that I'm the right guy to get the bus out of the ditch?

[Hans Deventer]

It is that, Hans. But you didn't answer my question.

Of course not. It wasn't directed at me, I can't vote in the election and if I could, you know who I'd vote for. You're preaching to the choir, Bruce :laughing