Posted by
ticketac on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:30:28 AM
John McCain's use of his
opponent's past words to expose the Socialism in his current dreams
would be far more effective a vote-swayer were he to make clear why a
President Obama might prove uniquely capable of realizing his Leftist
vision. What's more -- such a strategy would likely bolster GOP forces
on their state race fronts as well.
Just one day after a disastrously tongue-tied Sunday interview with NBC's
Tom Brokaw, John McCain delivered what was perhaps his most powerfully
effective speech of the campaign to date. Picking up on the day's buzz
over Obama's revealing
2001 Public Radio interview, yesterday afternoon's Dayton, Ohio Mac
Attack quickly turned to the hot topic of wealth redistribution:
It's
been a long campaign and we've heard a lot of words, and great campaign
trail eloquence. The amazing thing is that we've learned more about
Senator Obama's real goals for our country over the last two weeks than
we learned over the past two years. It is amazing that even at this
late hour, we are still learning more about Senator Obama and his
agenda. He told Joe the plumber right here in Ohio he wants to quote
"spread the wealth around." It's always more interesting to hear what
people have to say in these unscripted moments, and today we heard
another moment like this from Senator Obama.
In
a radio interview revealed today, he said that one of the quote --
"tragedies" of the civil rights movement is that it didn't bring about
a redistribution of wealth in our society. He said, and I quote, "One
of the tragedies of the Civil Rights movement was because the Civil
Rights movement became so court-focused I think that there was a
tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and
activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual
coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive
change."
That
is what change means for Barack the Redistributor: It means taking your
money and giving it to someone else. He believes in redistributing
wealth, not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs. He is
more interested in controlling wealth than in creating it, in
redistributing money instead of spreading opportunity. I am going to
create wealth for all Americans, by creating opportunity for all
Americans.
Mac the Budget Knife Vs Barack the Redistributor
Indeed,
with a week to go and a 7-year-old potential Obama immunity idol newly
in hand, hammering this theme home and hammering it hard must be job
one. But augmenting it with the unbridled powers The Redistributor
would wield should sufficient down-ticket candidates ride his
super-coattails is of equal if not greater consequence.
McCain
touched upon this in an earlier Monday speech he delivered in Cleveland
-- christening Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi "a dangerous
threesome," and offering this clear distinction:
"This
is the fundamental difference between Sen. Obama and me. We both
disagree with President Bush on economic policy. The difference is that
he thinks taxes have been too low, and I think that spending has been
too high."
Flanked
by economic heavyweights Mitt Romney and ex-EBay chief Meg Whitman, he
briefly warned of the filibuster-proof "supermajority" the Democrats
would achieve should they attain just 9 more Senate seats.
Good
Start. But making crystal clear that nearly everything -- including
Socialist tax policies -- passed by the Democrat-controlled House would
be all but guaranteed enactment as law should Obama prevail and Senate
Dems realize their supermajority is critical to not
only McCain's, but the broader GOP campaign in the bargain.
Particularly in swaying "independents" - who tend to complain about
gridlock almost to the same extent their votes reflect an adverse
proclivity to embrace it.
With
much of the electorate likely unaware of either a supermajority's
implications or its very possible imminence, both should be shouted
repeatedly and loudly from all reachable rooftops. As should the fact
that the Left's filibuster-ending goal post has just been moved
decidedly closer to their scrimmage line.
Just
hours after McCain's Dayton speech, Ted Stevens of Alaska was found
guilty of corruption charges, essentially handing his opponent, Democrat
Mark Begich, the Senate seat he's held since 1968. With New Mexico,
Colorado and Virginia all poised to flip Democratic, the super-majority
magic number now stands at an uncomfortable 5.
In
Kentucky, Mitch McConnell remains ahead -- but is by no means out of
woods. In Minnesota, tragic comedian Al Franken's challenge to Norm
Coleman is somehow too close to call. And Oregon Republican Gordon
Smith has recently fallen 3 ½ points short of the state's House Speaker
Jeff Merkley.
In
North Carolina, the once resilient Elizabeth Dole trails Democrat Kay
Hagan by 2 points and faces a resource-strong Obama get-out-the-vote
push. Georgia's Saxby Chambliss battles similar vote drive machinery
while attempting to hold his meager 2.2 point advantage over former
state representative Jim Martin. Yes -- Mississippi's special election
currently has Republican Roger Wicker up by 5, but his opponent's
economic good-times gubernatorial term (2000-2004) may ultimately prove
a deciding factor.
And
with Jeanne Shaheen now leading John Sununu by more than 8 points in
New Hampshire, these remaining horse races are fundamental to
preventing the "dangerous threesome's" Socialist wishes and Nanny-State
dreams. Not to mention Union domination, Green-insanity inspired
energy policies, restoration of the Fairness Doctrine, a liberalized,
more activist Supreme Court, and military strategies dictated largely
by war-protestors.
The
Dems, of course, are downright giddy over such prospective power, as
instantly evident all over Hillary's beaming face stumping here [Video] for Al Franken, touting the 60 Votes they'll need "to turn our economy around."
Oh they'll turn it around all right -- around 1929.
Moving
into this final week, both team McCain and the RNC must launch a
comprehensive effort to get the message out for the benefit of all GOP
candidates - not to mention the future of our nation: The election of
The Redistributor would launch a tax-and-spend-and-cut-and-runaway
train.
But the election of an unbridled Redistributor would launch a virtually unstoppable one.