Stunner: McCain is winning as the CHANGE candidate!

Is anyone listening to the Thomm Hartmann show this morning?

Thomm is making a really good point that the republicans are promoting McCain as the CHANGE candidate. You know you have heard the media pieces about McCain being a maverick, and Palin being a CHANGE agent. Yet McCain has been voting 90% of the time with Bush. And Palin...well we all know about her.

Hartmann is saying Obama/Biden have to get about 6 talking points down and keep repeating them again and again and emphasize that they are the real CHANGE candidates.

Yikes! This is reminding me of how Kerry was swift boated as a war hero, and Bush emerged as the patriot and the fighter ....then we wound up with Bush as prez. (Yes, I know we lost due the corruption in Ohio. But, 2004 was very close because the republicans fed into people's stupidity.)


Another observation I made after watching a video of a focus group in the DU Political Forum is that it is that the undecideds in this election are not the politically engaged. The undecideds are people who do not particularly pay attention to politics. For these people to decide to move to Obama or McCain will NOT be based on issues, it will be based on the narratives/stories of the candidates.

I hope Obama is paying attention.

Just because the lunatic fringe-biased M$M media doesn't show Obama/Biden emphasizing "change" on the trail, doesn't mean it isn't happening. Time to turn off the TV or watch/stream CSPAN when they show the town halls and rallies.

Obama not only has to frame his message in rallies, but in his ads.

Thomm is no sucker for media hype. In fact his latest book talks about how the media manipulates messages.

and they do this shit over & over again.

That at least has to give people a moment of pause.

whereas the Dem's always try a fruitless educational campaign.

Should have been expected.

Thom was talking about aggressive right wing marketing of JSM III and Sarahcuda as mavericks.

Warning that they could steal the branding from Obama, especially with the cooperation of the consolidated corporate broadcast media in Republican hands.

Pointing out that it would be a good idea to punch back at their attempt to steal that key identity from the true agents of change, The Democrats.

He also talked about John Sidney McCain III, humble public servant with $520 loafers, pretending he isn't even a Republican. Recommending we remind voters which party's policies his ticket supports at every opportunity.

So now I guess it behooves me to call him John Sidney McCain III, humble Republican public servant with 7 homes, $520 shoes, a net worth of $40 million, and an heiress second wife with $100 million of her own.

Senator McCain passed this law. Candidate McCain opposes it. Do the top five.

Mayor Palin supported the Bridge to Nowhere. Candidate Palin opposes it.
Governor Palin supported teaching Creationism in science class. Candidate Palin hasn't talked about it.


McSame and Impalin' say they are genuine. Which face says that?
And show both of them contradicting themselves.

They sure are mavericks-- their positions on bedrock issues have jumped around a lot.

Edited to add: They sure are mavericks-- Modern Republicans, shaking up core American values !!

Even the message.

Oh, dear god, I wish I believed in hell so I could take some comfort in them all burning there forever.