The McNasty camp will dump something about Obama in the last 48 to 72 hours

before the election. This will be their last, vicious November Surprise. The most likely timing will be Sunday evening, Nov. 2, so most people will become aware of the story on Monday just before the election.

I don't know what it is; it will probably be something on the moral level of "B-Girl" Todd, but a little better done. It will be slimy, and it won't be true. It could be anything--an allegation that Obama is being charged with molesting his young daughters, anything. The truth value won't matter to them because the timing of their dump will be intended to preclude any effective rebuttal before the election.

My evidence for this? None. Just a mind twisted into bitter cynicism by 8 years of observing Republicans at work.

:hi:

Two things--first, the McCain people have kind of exhausted the mud mine, and after too many things like poor little Ashley, nobody believes them any more--and second, if I can anticipate this, I'm sure the Obama people can as well, and have an emergency response plan in place, just as they did for everything else McNasty threw at them.

The McCain people are a gaggle of Rove wannabes, the Gang that Couldn't Sling Mud Straight. I'm just betting they have one more pathetic, desperate move left in them.

attack.

I expect one, and I assume it will have something to do with terrorism.

It will be ignored, if not outright laughed at.

Limbaugh has already advised his listeners to expect "fireworks in the last 72 hours".

We can only hope that the majority of voters are smart enough not to fall for it.

swinging the election to him. I'll go see if I can findja the quote, so I can bring it to ya. ;-)

On edit - Here's what I found (not as big of a prediction as I remembered):

"I've got to catch up and get ahead. And I expect to do that about 48 hours before the general election," he said with a laugh.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/06/27/mccain-predicts-hell-overtake-obama-48-hours-before-the-election/

and quite early on in the campaign, as I recall.

because of what's happened in the past...when he said this, my red flags started flying hard core...it may not seem to have the same impact now as it did then, because of the way things have gone since then, for him and for Obama...HOWEVER....

let's not forget...
2000...Jeb saying Florida would go for his brother...then the decision came down to Florida for the FIRST time in history...
2004...Blackwell, and the Diebold guy saying Ohio would go for *...and how it then came down to Ohio, for the FIRST time in history...and also how the exit polls were wrong...when it was billions to one odds against that ever happening...
and then 2006...all the strange happenings in Governor/Senate/House elections...how some candidates came from many percentage points behind to win...and I know we all remember Don Siegleman...

it IS the fact that McCain made such a comment at all...that should keep us on our toes....they outright told us prior to the elections in 2000 and 2004 that they intended to steal it...but we didn't understand that's what they were saying....I believe we're smarter this time, and I trust Obama is just a little more savvy than they gave him credit for.....wb

I will never trust Repukes. If they think they can get away with cheating, they'll do it. I also remember what Peter King said in 2004: "It's all over but the counting, and we'll take care of the counting."

What's he got planned?

how to catch Osama bin Laden, a secret he has failed to share with the rest of us.

McCain has completely defined himself as the one who will lie, smear,
and say anything to get elected. It's totally expected that he will sink lower
and that's why it will have ZERO impact... but may have more blowback.

It's crazy that McCain never put forward a positive inclusive message.
After all, he's running to be President of ALL Americans... not just the dumb ones.
Too late now.

It doesn't get nastier than "terrorist" "socialist"

The Republicans are twisted, depraved.

and hope that by the time it's proven to be BS, it will be too late!

And the dealer will say he's still supplying Obama, Michele, and the daughters.

why post shit like this - no evidence ??? just putting negative energy out there???
let's move forward towards election day by putting all that extra energy towards working for change - I know I am

It isn't going to work, but it's an obvious tactic.

I also halfway expect some bullshit Bin Laden video to show up again at the last minute.

That would just be a reminder of how Bush and the Repugs have done NOTHING to get Bin Laden in the last 4 years.

It will be something personal, and there will be an element of racism.

They are busy quilting something. From whole cloth, most likely.

They don't "have something" - if there were something to be had, you can bet Hillary would have used it in the primaries!

They are going to MAKE-UP 'something', and hope that there won't be enough time for the lie to be exposed before election day!

All Obama needs to do to fend this off is ONE good ad spelling out precisely why McCain's attacks have no credibility (he hired KNOWN LIARS - how can we believe anything that comes from these people?).

Quilting! I actually see McBush using his metal detector on a beach somewhere, all covered up, with marbles in his hands, or whatever Bligh had and rolled on 'Mutiny on The Bounty'. :evilgrin:

I have now exhausted approximately 1/3 of my entire store of movie trivia.

:rofl: Ball bearings! That's the ticket!

He's lost his bearings. Or, if you prefer, his marbles. Here he is, in a still from the McCain Mutiny.

or some such shit will be thrown in at the end.

by emphasizing how McCain has hired KNOWN LIARS (in fact the VERY SAME PEOPLE who spread lies about McCain himself in 2000) to make his ads.

Not only is this 100% TRUE, but it would seriously undermine the credibility of whatever last-minute bit of mud McCain decided to sling.

I would bet on something exactly like this from the Obama camp, timed just ahead of the expected McNasty attack.

Obama has been ahead of the game all along. I love the way he defuzed Corsi. I love the way he took the wheels off the Ayersmobile so it wnet nowhere.

Obama should make it public knowledge that McCain hired the SAME guy who claimed that he had an illegitimate black daughter in 2000 to make up shit about Obama.

Not only would this neutralize any attacks, it reflects VERY poorly on McCain!

Is pretty much window-dressing. This upcoming week is really the last chance to try and change people's minds or to convince people to vote for you. The last 48 to 72 hours aren't so much used to try and change people's minds; instead, it's more about rallying people to get out to vote. Of course, as badly run as McCain's campaign is, they won't be smart enough to realize that.

With Bush, HIS drug use and alcholism were off limits, viewed as youthful indiscretions. Viewed as something that took place "a long time ago."

I think Obama needs to go after McCain's talk of being one with "joe the plumber" and show that Joe the plumber CAN'T spend $150k on clothes in seven weeks, Joe the plumber doesn't own seven homes and 13 cars. Joe the Plumber can't have Verizon and AT&T erect a cellular tower outside his home so that he gets better reception.

Whatever the hell they drop....we must hope it doesn't sway anyone.

against any McNasty viruses (viri, but nobody does proper Latin anymore). I expect a "booster shot" to be administered and timed to ward off any malign last-minute McNasty bugs.

Stop this kind of scare-mongering.

When I was a groundpounder in 1967, we would often get warnings from Brigade S-2 that we might be hit. Sometimes we weren't hit after one of these alerts. Should we therefore have ignored the next warning?

Anyway, other posters and I keep making the point here that this anticipated attack can be defuzed. The point of this discussion is to prepare people, to give them a frame in which to place any such last-minute desperation move so that if it happens, they'll know it for what it is rather than panicking, wondering if something new has just hit the fan, or whatever.

whether it will come "from the top" or just some local branch(es) of this gang of thugs, there will probably be several such efforts. Cornered rats do get nasty.

surprises me anymore.

With all the early voting, though, I wonder how much of an effect some new smear would really have. Seems like most people have already unplugged their phones to the robo calls and put the ads on mute.

It will be pretty hard to overcome all the points he needs to make up in 2 days.

Obama would make a preemptive strike on this kind of thing. I think it would be a good move if he were out there right now telling people to get ready for the Repugs BS. That way it kind of kills the credibility of any of these smears before they even happen. Perhaps he already is saying that. I don't know. I don't have time to catch most of his speeches.

This is gonna be an interesting week.

to the negative ad and calls, in sort of a mocking tone saying that McCainCo is trying to make people afraid of him, that he is somehow a scary guy.

McCain has a choice to make. He can lose (or win) with honor and dignity. If he manages somehow to win because sleaze he will become President with half the country hating him and a very very pissed off Senate and House. He'll be a lame duck before he's sworn in. He will get nothing done; no one will want to work with him.

At least if he loses honorably he will have some opportunity to repair what is left of his legacy.

Unfortunately, I think he already made the choice to show the world that he is truly a dispicable man; a real bottom feeder.

I know there are lots of idiots out there, but generally speaking the average voter isn't as dumb as we sometimes think he or she is.

moreso than some anti-obama campaign stunt.

i think mccain's campaign and the rnc... have to just put the brakes on their insanity at some point, trying to cut their losses and to engage in damage control.

all of their negativity has blown up in their faces and i no longer expect the race to tighten.

on the other hand... they will be eager to discredit their loss, make excuses and play the blame game.

i am wondering if we might not see them hang palin herself.

They've been keeping that powder dry for a reason.

Please consider deleting the specific example that you wrote concerning Barack's children in your second paragraph. I can't find the words to describe how disturbing it is to even see that in type.

Thank you for your consideration!

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they'd be down in the polls with 48 hours to go, but 'something' will happen that spurns a comeback and a McCrap win. No doubt there are probably several 'ideas' in the works. Next weekend will be when it's unfurled, and if track record shows anything, it's that the plan will be decidedly hair-brained and likely backfire big time.

He said he's most likely be down 48 hours before the election, however, his campaign would surge in the final two days and win.

I doubt he thought he'd be down by nearly double digits, though.

would appear to be winning, until 48 hours before election day?...and then something would happen, and he, McCain, would win instead?...I seem to recall him saying something like that......since then, Obama has taken such a lead, it would have to be literally, an earth shaking event...I don't believe at that time, McCain envisioned things going quite like they have....I also don't believe he considered all the early voting that's going on, or the high ranking officials who are jumping ship....either that, or they have one of the best laid plans to steal an election that we've ever seen, and we haven't caught on to what they are up to, or how they intend to do it, just yet....otherwise...it sure looks, at this point, to be totally impossible, but then perhaps that's exactly when we should be the most wary....wb

the other 1/4 doesn't matter because they are still in love with Bush and would never listen to any of the hard facts anyway......

That has to be why he is doubling down i what appears a sure loser. The problem for McGollum is that Ashley The Plant may well have diffused about anything he can do there but they are admitting that PA is must win. This seems to be the floodwall for them do to no early voting in the state and I'd expect they have stacked the dirty tricks there.

McCain and Palin have been spending an inordinate amount of time in these states, given the polling numbers. I pointed this out weeks ago, and got flamed for it.

However, that may have more to do with some sort of vote rigging scheme than a 'final 72 hours' strategy.

And it will have all of the impact of Bush's DUI.

There is no hail Mary that is going to turn this thing in any significant direction either way.

ROFL!

"Seriously! How many HIV tests does a "hetero" Man need??"

The best part is a good number of the knuckle draggers are slamming the shit out of the OP. A problem of going negative early - when disproven multiple times the slams become less and less effective. I agree that McPuke will try it, the effect will be minimal.

Anything they can think of, they're trying, without much in the way of organization or skill.

We got Osama on ice in the Bahamas, it is time for him to come out again as he did in 2004.

I'm so scared.

Remember when that bizarre video message came out right before the election? He has been awfully quiet this time around. I wonder if it would have any impact this time.

because it would highlight the fact that nothing has been done to stop him since the 'last' October Surprise video.

something so shocking that the theft-by-electronic-voting will seen plausible,

southern strategy and say Obama supports reperations. I hope I'm wrong because if McCain says that it will cost Obama some votes in states such as MO.