Greg Dail urges McCain to exploit the Chicago angle, in Friday Free For All:
Ok here's my free for all point. I think the McCain campaign has missed a huge opportunity.
Obama is a product of the Chicago political machine. He was not born in Chicago, he was not educated in Chicago, he chose Chicago. McCain should hang Chicago around his neck. We all know Chicago politics are the dirtiest in the country. From Daley Sr. to Harold Washington to Jane Byrne to Daley Jr. and before, Chicago has always been a hotbed of voter fraud, intimidation and corruption. We all remember the 1960 election when Kennedy won Illinois on the strength of voter fraud. McCain should have pounded this issue along the lines of Obama wants to impose Chicago style politics on the country. Ragging on Chicago and its corruption is a goldmine that should have been exploited. We all remember Dukakis and how Bush Sr. tied the filthy Boston Harbor to him. It's a tactic that works, and it hasn't been used. Too bad.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
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Greg--I just don't see this working either. We're swimming upstream against a press that is simply unwilling to lose this one. Nothing's gonna stick.
I agree. Obama could kill a puppy in the middle of Times Square and the press would rave about his heroism in protecting the crowd from a savage beast. We can all wring our hands about what might have been if McCain had just taken this tactic or that tactic, but in the end I doubt it would have mattered. Obama's followers SIMPLY DON'T CARE. CW, how about some commentary on Krauthammer's fabulous column yesterday?
Certainly. It was consistent with Krauthammer's usual brilliance, but I'm not sure what about it made it unusual.
The Brits Have a Way With Words
'You have to pinch yourself - a Marxist radical who all his life has been mentored by, sat at the feet of, worshiped with, befriended, endorsed the philosophy of, funded and been in turn funded, politically promoted and supported by a nexus comprising black power anti-white racists, Jew-haters, revolutionary Marxists, unrepentant former terrorists and Chicago mobsters, is on the verge of becoming President of the United States.
And apparently it's considered impolite to say so.'
- Melanie Philips, The Spectator ( UK ) 10/14/08
Or, have we allowe political correctness to emasculate our public outrage?
As a kid from Jersey, your knowledge of Chicago politics is excellent. Even in the middle to late 1800's Chicago was the wild west of voting. McCain should have jumped on this like a hobo on a ham sandwich... Just like Senator Macaca should have called Jim Webb a carpetbagger and then shut up and won his election.
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