Andrew Kantor's Place: How the Dems can win in November

How the Dems can win in November

Published 5/18/08

Filed under: Politics

Fight like the Repubs do — get everyone on message for starters, and get them using the same talking points.

On talk shows, when interviewed, whenever — they should start drilling these phrases into people’s minds right now to give them a good chance of catching on.

1. “Republican economy.” Use it all the time to remind people who created this mess. Ex.: “Until we start to get out of the Republican economy, I think gas prices are likely to rise” or “In this Republican economy, I think people need to think about whether they can afford a larger home.”

2. “Old man.” McCain turns 72 on Aug. 29 — that’s three years older than Reagan was in 1980.

3. “Frequent memory lapses.” When McCain either makes up facts or distorts them, don’t argue on a factual basis. Ex.: “When he said that Reagan didn’t negotiate with terrorists, Mr. McCain was having another of his frequent memory lapses” and “Hopefully as president McCain wouldn’t have one of his frequent memory lapses.” Considering how often he’s flip-flopped on issues, this could be a popular phrase.

4. “McCain moment.” When a politician forgets something or misspeaks, refer to it as such. Equate being senile with being McCain. Ex.: “I meant to say that we have 2000 soldiers on the ground, not 2 million. I must have had a McCain moment.”

5. “100 years of war.” Remind folks that it was McCain who suggested that would be fine by him. And tell them that this time women might be drafted, if the law was interpreted the right way. That would mean your grade-school kids might end up fighting McCain’s war.

Finally, they should begin to call into question exactly what happened to McCain when he was a POW. If he’s willing to endorse torture now, either A) it didn’t happen to him, B) it happened to him and he knows it works because it got him to talk, or C) he’s a sadistic, bitter old man.

Hey, if the Repubs could call John Kerry’s service into question over a draft-dodger like Bush, McCain’s time in a POW camp is certainly fair game.

Oh, and point people to this wonderful nugget of a video.

The Fray

6 responses (add yours)

Admiral says:

There is no “if” about it. Dems WILL win in November. Now if the Dems could only end the in fighting… Obama all the way. And lets hope he has great security…

May 18th, 2008 at 7:34 PM

gnomic says:

Ah, but you underestimate the dems. If anyone can snatch defet from the jaws of victory, its the dems. Hillary is doing her best to impliment a scorched earth campaign that puts her in the white house no matter what the cost to party or country. And I wouldn’t put it past this administration to make the dem candidates “disappear” after the torture the logic to say its the President’s right to do so.

May 19th, 2008 at 8:26 AM

Michael M. says:

America is not yet ready to elect a woman or a black man president.

That is just a fact. No matter what the liberal elites on the coasts think, say, write, and broadcast.

And when McCain adds Condi Rice as his VP candidate…

Say it with me: President John McCain.

I’ll be back after election day to gloat.

May 23rd, 2008 at 1:47 PM

Admiral says:

Michael M. you are correct that the majority of stupid people (who are the majority of US citizens) do not like the idea of a black and or woman president. Just look at the ass backward responses from the voters in West Virginia.

But, I think that Obama will be the president unless he is disabled in some way. And sad to say it but I think thats what Hillary is hoping for. I hope he has good security or this will be a repeat of 1968.

She slipped today and mentioned Robert Kennedy’s assassination. I used to like Hillary Clinton but her relentlessness is absurd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk25Am6Jo0s

May 23rd, 2008 at 7:21 PM

gnomic says:

Michael M.

Please don’t bother to come back.

May 23rd, 2008 at 8:46 PM

badman says:

Not trying to sound politically correct here–but I gotta disagree with point #2. Age shouldn’t automatically be a disqualifier. Obviously people lose some of their mental prowess with age but some people who’ve taken good care of themselves are smarter, wittier, wiser, and healthier than people in their forties. My own tech savvy father still runs his company at 68 years of age and seems more like a man in his late forties–he almost looks it too.
That being said, McCain is a semi senile idiot.

It’ll take perhaps more than a decade to undo all the damage done by George W. and the U.S. will be in huge trouble if either McCain (an older more articulate version of George W.) or Hilary become the next President.

May 25th, 2008 at 1:10 PM