McCain Adviser Admits That Campaign Doesn't Want To Talk About Economic Crisis

By Greg Sargent - October 4, 2008, 9:04AM

Buried at the end of this Washington Post piece on the aggressive attacks McCain intends to wage in the campaign's final days is this unfortunate quote from a senior McCain adviser:

"We are looking for a very aggressive last 30 days," said Greg Strimple, one of McCain's top advisers. "We are looking forward to turning a page on this financial crisis and getting back to discussing Mr. Obama's aggressively liberal record and how he will be too risky for Americans."
That seems like an awfully candid admission, if an inadvertent one: The McCain campaign doesn't want to talk about the economic crisis anymore; the McCain camp would rather talk about how "risky" Obama is.

What's more, the "turning the page" line seems awfully flip. Why entrust McCain to steer our economy out trouble if his own top adviser admits that McCain and company don't want to talk about solving the crisis and are hoping to merely "turn the page" on it?

Seems like a line the Obama campaign just might grab on to.


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they can make everyone forget about the bad economy with a bunch of nasty attack ads? Just how dumb do they think people are?

The entire McCain campaign seems premised on the assumption that the American people are incredibly stupid and easily manipulated. Has to be the most cynical, disingenuous strategy in the history of politics!

when every day folks are staring down the barrel of a recession.

lately, instead of the R word.

that base would have given ANYTHING for their side to win 8 years ago, and how a majority of the nation WAS easily manipulated while in a state of shock during those early weeks and months following 9-11. The McCain campaign's cynical assumption "that the American people are incredibly stupid and easily manipulated" isn't without merit when you look at it from their perspective.

They've lost a lot of the media support this time around though, I think a big part of that is because these media conglomerates have realized they don't have the monopoly on news and information they once assumed they had. Remember they tried to belittle and berate the blog-shpere long before attempting to compete with them. The entire Washington noise machine has been tipped off balance, McCain's people are the ones too stupid to realize it.

The Repubs, up to now, have gotten a lot of mileage on playing the red/blue divide. That's given them their 20-some % rabid base, the rest of the country ain't buying it anymore so all they have left to rely on is lies and attacks because they never for once believed they'd need an actual "platform" to run on.