Discuss "You be the campaign manager"

The problem since the Reagan revolution, and why we are so mired in debt, is that noone can suggest, especially no Republican, the end to tax giveaways. Yes it would be good if anyone left or right told the American populace right now, we cannot afford that the wealthiest among us, the corporations who export jobs, the gas companies rolling in historic profits getting the kind of tax giveaways that have leveraged our economy for the past eight years.

CitizenE @ 12:26 PM PDT, Oct 13, 2008

Obama and McCain should announce in a joint news conference that taxes are going up for everyone. Even given the very liberal assumption that we will eventually wind down the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan, there is a crushing need for all manner of infrastructure: 1) social infrastructure=all entitlement programs, plus health car needing a bailout or fixing; 2) physical infrastructure, 3) environmental infrastructure, needing a "green" sustainability Marshall Plan. Is there really an alternative to higher taxes? Such a pledge would be revive the Straight Talk Express.

barthes @ 12:14 PM PDT, Oct 13, 2008

I think that comments 1-5 sums it up for me. Well said folks. I am also disgusted/fed up with the McPalin campaign. Mavericks, no way. Cold & calculating, absolutely.

barbara @ 11:35 AM PDT, Oct 12, 2008

I've been around long enough to remember people crying in their front yards while I was walking home after being let out of school early. JFK had been shot. Bottom-line: Politics and angry people are a deadly mix. In this economy, any spark can light a fire. Losing an election, or slipping in the polls, should not be a reason to create riotous activity. We all love a good fight intellectually in presidential races, but this type of "killer" campaigning must be stopped before someone gets hurt physically. They need to stick to the issues. Forget the personal attacks. Its very unattractive.

chickc @ 5:31 PM PDT, Oct 11, 2008

If McCain followed the advice in the article he could be proud of living up to his principles. It may help him with his campaign and the remainder of his career.

DC @ 10:09 PM PDT, Oct 10, 2008

Last time I checked, Pelosi and Reid have been running Congress the past two years. If the bailout was such a good idea, Democrats could have passed it on a party line vote. They merely used the Nixon/Corruption wing of the Republican party as political cover to steal more of our money and freedom. McCain is a fool for not being a real independant and trying to kill this bill. He would have been proven right, just as he was about Fannie/Freddie and the surge. Now he's just another pandering political wanker like all the rest and he deserves to lose. Here's to Bobby Jindal in 2012!

mike @ 4:07 PM PDT, Oct 10, 2008

If he thinks his credibility is too far damaged already, he could step aside and endorse Bob Barr, and the Republicans would have no choice but to follow him. They certainly don't want a thinly veiled socialist in office, especially since we've had 8 years of an even more thinly-veiled fascist.

Brandon Bowers @ 3:24 PM PDT, Oct 10, 2008

Why do people think McCain is reasonable. If he had a true biography it would show anything but an intellect. Influence got him into Annapolis, influence kept him from being thrown out of Annapolis, influence got him flying jets, influence made it so he wasn't relieved of his duty after crashing two jets well before combat. He is a pampered navy brat, more elite perhaps than anyone else running for President this last year. In other words he is a phony. It is coming out now, His running mate, even more dangerous, is also a phony and a fraud. Period.

Fred Fep @ 2:32 PM PDT, Oct 10, 2008

Haven't we had enough wild behavior attacking countries that have nothing to do with 9/11, spending every dollar we have for God knows what, and secret meetings and documents that obviously have been about what's affecting the world Economy, Environment, and Inflation now? Please, no more of the same. China already owns all our debt, we're practically bankrupt, and retirement is now a standing joke? Can you afford to take a chance on a "Maverick?"

solsenz @ 2:14 PM PDT, Oct 10, 2008

You are right. McCain used to be somebody that appeal to democrats. I am one, however, it is too late for that. Your advice to dash icy cold water in our faces and wake us up to the hard realities we face would not work. Many of us are already awake. We see the "Maverick" taking on Bush cronies to run his campaign and tailoring his messages and policies to special interests. McCain's decline is also due to a divide in the electorate that many don't recognize, anti-intellectual vs. intellectual divide. McCain chose the former as his base, but there aren't enough people who will suspend rational thought for him to win.

Mike in Sac @ 1:46 PM PDT, Oct 10, 2008

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