Talking Points Memo | Keeping Track
I note with interest today, John McCain's new tactic of associating Barack Obama with oversexed and/or promiscuous young white women. (See today's new ad and this from yesterday.) Presumably, a la Harold Ford 2006, this will be one of those strategies that will be a matter of deep dispute during the campaign and later treated as transparent and obvious once the campaign is concluded.
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I think it's highly likely that they're going to try to pin some sex scandal on Obama, probably related to porn and/or prostitution, possibly actual, possibly in his past, if they go all-out, related to an underage girl -- in a big, big way. The promiscuous black male image is very powerful in the US. That's how they sank Harold Ford's senate run in '06. Still, I don't see them doing this if McCain runs, or Huckabee, because those candidates will get a big dent in their image themselves if they or their surrogates go that sleazily negative.
Next up: Obama touched my daughter at the campaign rally, angry millworker says.
FOX news asks: Is Obama too tight with his teen fans?
But with the recent examples of the tramed stepping away form the corporate line and pointing out in the full light of day that the republicans are lying, I think the Obama camp can just lump it all in with existing fabrications and send a back channel communication to McCain suggesting his own life ain't so squeaky clean he can afford this to continue.
But the fact is that McCain is falling apart in front of everybody. I'm sure that's the real reason the TM are stepping away, they don't want to go down with the wreck. It's not just the polls, McCain doesn't know his own policies, he blatantly contradicts himself one day to the next. As someone said, it's charming the first couple of times and then you begin to wonder if he really understands what he's doing. He's being called time after time on his voting record (or lack of), especially on women's reproductive rights where McCain is really behind the curve.
And this is happening on the tv. However much Faux or CNN try to edit his words to help him out, his confusions and evasions are right there in people's living rooms, and they're noticing. keep to the Fen Causeway
