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Commentary & Editorials- History Suggests McCain Faces an Uphill Battle - John Harwood, NY Times
- 4 Ways McCain Could Still Turn It Around - Walter Shapiro, Salon
- Strategists: McCain Must Hammer on Economy - David Paul Kuhn, Politico
- Why the Ayers Attack Isn't Sticking - John Dickerson, Slate
- McCain Should Fire His Campaign - Bill Kristol, New York Times
- The 'Unitary Executive' Question - Dana Nelson, Los Angeles Times
- Can McCain Still Win? - Pat Buchanan, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting For Obama - Christopher Buckley, The Daily Beast
via ggl search "tim dickinson" "matt welch" bcs lkg at Welch's sep08 pbk book McCain: Myth of the Maverick, and I wondered if the recent Rolling Stone article was by Welch. it's not, so then I was wondering if Welch commented on it or on anyth re Dickinson, are they on th same page re McCain?
...No:
We're Not in 2000 Anymore, Toto - Matt Welch - Hit & Run = reason.com/blog [Continuous news & views by the Reason staff] | Reason Magazine
There is another ball-advancement on that slice of McCain's bio in this 11,800-word piece of Rolling Stone invective [Make Believe Maverick]- by Tim Dickinson], which you've probably seen if you have a bunch of lefty friends. The piece constantly assumes the worst, is bizarrely sourced (reading it, you'd almost never know that whole swaths of the supposed gotchas came from the pen of John McCain himself); starts with a maximally lurid account of McCain's post-Vietnam tail-chasing ... and also includes quite a few damning on-the-record interviews, including with fellow ex-POWs.I'll repeat what I said during the brief cross-in-the-dirt flap: McCain's Vietnam story has a few holes in it, which are mostly meaningless to me (except for his weird Domino Theory tale), but he's a candidate for president so let's see those medical records, Joe Biden!!! The Post also has a piece today about McCain's first wife, so I guess it's officially let's-write-the-articles-we-wouldn't-write-in-2000 season.
My top 10 non-reason articles about John McCain here; link to my paperback here, and the late David Foster Wallace's 2000-era Rolling Stone McCain tongue-bath huh here.
also:
You be the campaign manager - Los Angeles Times | discussion: Welch v Crayton
Maverick to me one more timePoint: Matt Welch
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& the Kristol article:
[McCain should] Fire the Campaign - By WILLIAM KRISTOL, Op-Ed Columnist - NYTimes.com - www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/opinion
Let McCain go back to what he’s been good at in the past — running as a cheerful, open, accessible candidate. Palin shld follow suit. The two of them are attractive & competent politicians. They’re happy warriors & good campaigners. Set them free. Provide total media accessibility that wld be sth on their campaign planes & buses. Kick most of the aides off & send them to swing states to work for th state coordinators on getting voters to polls. Keep just a minimal staff to help organize the press conferences McCain & Palin shld have at every stop & the TV interviews they shld do at every location. Do town halls, do the Sunday TV shows, do talk radio. .. And he can point out there’s going to be a Democratic Congress & suggest surely we’d prefer a pres who wld check that Congress where necess & work w it where poss, instd an inexperienced Democr pres w an all-too-experienced Democr Congress, leading us unchecked back to 1970s-style liberalism.
Is Drudge Priming a McCain "Reboot" Narrative? in form Kristol advocates NY Times this morning: apologizing for tone & changing to positive - (Nate Silver's prediction) | FiveThirtyEight |
Matt Drudge is treating 1-2 pt gain for McCain as "BREAKING" news. Drudge has nose for news & knows a one-pt gain not news, unless someone deeply wants it to be. So here's what I think is going on: The McCain campaign planning a major "reboot" at some pt in adv of Wed night's debate. will take something of form Kristol advocates huh, first pgmrk this morning, via list McCain latest articles in his must-read Monday AM piece in NYTimes: pledging to run a positive campaign; apologizing for his campaign's tone; firing/demoting Steve Schmidt &or Rick Davis. In fact, Kristol's column may be sth of a trial balloon for this strategy. What they do want to avoid is this being portrayed as stunt. so must convince media already had momentum, eg: McCain's repudiatn of Obama as "Arab" on Friday.. McCain found his voice..reboot is cont of this..voters responding favorably (as polls attest!) well let's see let's see! will there be a reboot?
...Tuesday:
McCain Hopes Economic Plan Closes Gap In Polls : NPR Morning Edition, October 14, 2008 · talk w NPR news analyst
Obama dble-digit lead. Econ top issue. McCain expectd announce economic plan Tues. woke up to this on radio, did I hear quoting campaign re "pressing th reset button"? (just as Nate Silver predicted, & wrt Kristol's suggestn ystrday)... yes: "want to reset th campaign." lots of finger pointing & blame-gaming going on, bcs they're down substantially. when talk to them now, they have a sense of thinking it was wrong to have suspended th campaign, & threaten not to go to that debate. that did not go well for them. wonder whose idea that was. also, sense th he's not as spirited as some -esp outsiders- wld like him to be, they're more taken w Palin, who's been more zealous. That whole attacking mode is not setting well w some in McCain camp /over agnst the 'some -esp outsiders-' who are m taken w Palin. so wh they want is to get away fr all this --& talk re whthr bring in Rev Wright--
syntax intrjctns leads to confusion: host of show asks about what sounds like contradiction, that they are talking about changing tone to more positive *and* about advertising connxn to Rev Wright. but what the npr news analyst meant here, I think, was to mention that as part of what they want to get away from. just as earlier he was a bit confusing in saying that some are unhappy with McCain not being zealous like Palin, and that attacking mode not sitting well with some -- these two 'some's are diff ppl.
Is Drudge Priming a McCain "Reboot" Narrative? in form Kristol advocates NY Times this morning: apologizing for tone & changing to positive - (Nate Silver's prediction) | FiveThirtyEight |
Matt Drudge is treating 1-2 pt gain for McCain as "BREAKING" news. Drudge has nose for news & knows a one-pt gain not news, unless someone deeply wants it to be. So here's what I think is going on: The McCain campaign planning a major "reboot" at some pt in adv of Wed night's debate. will take something of form Kristol advocates huh, first pgmrk this morning, via list McCain latest articles in his must-read Monday AM piece in NYTimes: pledging to run a positive campaign; apologizing for his campaign's tone; firing/demoting Steve Schmidt &or Rick Davis. In fact, Kristol's column may be sth of a trial balloon for this strategy. What they do want to avoid is this being portrayed as stunt. so must convince media already had momentum, eg: McCain's repudiatn of Obama as "Arab" on Friday.. McCain found his voice..reboot is cont of this..voters responding favorably (as polls attest!) well let's see let's see! will there be a reboot?
...Tuesday:
McCain Hopes Economic Plan Closes Gap In Polls : NPR Morning Edition, October 14, 2008 · talk w NPR news analyst
Obama dble-digit lead. Econ top issue. McCain expectd announce economic plan Tues. woke up to this on radio, did I hear quoting campaign re "pressing th reset button"? (just as Nate Silver predicted, & wrt Kristol's suggestn ystrday)... yes: "want to reset th campaign." lots of finger pointing & blame-gaming going on, bcs they're down substantially. when talk to them now, they have a sense of thinking it was wrong to have suspended th campaign, & threaten not to go to that debate. that did not go well for them. wonder whose idea that was. also, sense th he's not as spirited as some -esp outsiders- wld like him to be, they're more taken w Palin, who's been more zealous. That whole attacking mode is not setting well w some in McCain camp /over agnst the 'some -esp outsiders-' who are m taken w Palin. so wh they want is to get away fr all this --& talk re whthr bring in Rev Wright--
syntax intrjctns leads to confusion: host of show asks about what sounds like contradiction, that they are talking about changing tone to more positive *and* about advertising connxn to Rev Wright. but what the npr news analyst meant here, I think, was to mention that as part of what they want to get away from. just as earlier he was a bit confusing in saying that some are unhappy with McCain not being zealous like Palin, and that attacking mode not sitting well with some -- these two 'some's are diff ppl.
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