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The Note: GOP Faces Electoral Disaster
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ABC News' Rick Klein reports in Monday's Note:
Just on the off-chance that Barack Obama isn’t right where John McCain wants him (in front of 100,000 people in Denver?) -- and since we already know that Sarah Palin isn’t always where McCain wants her to be . . .
What’s at stake now for McCain and the GOP has morphed into something much larger than a presidential campaign.
On the ballot in eight days’ time is the fate of a political party -- in an election that will align government for at least the next two critical years, if not considerably more.
We all know better now that to start talking “permanence,” but the question for McCain and party leaders is less about how to win but how to avoid a wipeout that will take more than an election cycle or two to climb back from.
As Obama starts his turn to a closing argument -- his speech in Canton, Ohio Monday hits on themes of “new politics” he first sounded back in Springfield last winter -- Team McCain is left arguing over whose fault the closing is.
Read the rest of The Note -- and get all the latest on the 2008 election, Congress, the White House and the wide world of politics every day -- from Rick Klein by bookmarking this link.
It’s not just a running mate who’s on her own (which worked so well for Dan Quayle) . . . or angry money folks . . . or GOPers saving reputations if they can’t their party . . . or new clothes making another new story (but is a $50,000 spending spree really that much better?).
It’s a party on the precipice of historic, across-the-board defeat -- and this is when it starts getting ugly.
“John McCain is losing in a way that threatens to take the entire Republican Party down with him,” David Frum writes in the Sunday Washington Post. “In these last days before the vote, Republicans need to face some strategic realities. Our resources are limited, and our message is failing. We cannot fight on all fronts. We are cannibalizing races that we must win and probably can win in order to help a national campaign that is almost certainly lost. In these final 10 days, our goal should be: senators first.”
“The Obama campaign is marching toward the biggest nonincumbent Democratic presidential victory since 1932, and the Democratic Party is fighting its way toward its best overall presidential and Congressional year since 1964,” Bill Kristol writes in his New York Times column. “Situation not-so-excellent. Time for McCain to attack -- or, rather, finally to make his case.”
Kristol has an expensive (and impractical) wish-list, and: “McCain has a chance to close this election in a big and positive way. He has a chance to get voters to rise above the distractions and to set aside the petty aspects of the campaign. He has a chance to remind them why they have admired him, and perhaps to persuade them to vote for him on Nov. 4.”
Continue reading today's Note by clicking HERE.
ABC News' Hope Ditto contributed to this report.
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Rick is this a joke?
Posted by: geevill | Oct 27, 2008 9:09:46 AM
John McCain failed when he picked Sarah Palin..no when Sarah started talking. I'm not a supporter of either. But Obama has a better team of thinkers...and attacks don't work anymore. They should have throught through the vetting process for VP a little more...! Mitt is smiling and giggling right about now...
Posted by: Mike | Oct 27, 2008 9:14:18 AM
As Joe biden continues to say We need a FDR Type "New deal" While it has been proven FDR'S new deal kept us in the depression longer
Posted by: reddog0216 | Oct 27, 2008 9:15:03 AM
A vote for barack obama is a vote for corruption like we have never seen in the white house. A barack obama administration will bring not only redistribution of wealth, but global redistribution of wealth. This country's deficit will never be paid. But hey, we can be buddies with terrorists and rogue nations.
Posted by: me | Oct 27, 2008 9:16:54 AM
I've heard and see first hand how state and local races have been cannibalized to send money to "St. John the Baptist of BS." The ONLY people who have helped the canidates, get this... Are the RON PAUL voulnteers that the McCain campaign systematically ignored, ridiculed, insulted, and castigated... simply because they wanted a REPUBLICAN nominated for the Repubilcan party!!! Now John the maniac! is happy to see the whole DAMN party go in the toliet to prop up his already imploded camapaign of "Terror"... It didn't have to be this way... Why oh WHY didn't the lunatic who can't tell the same story to the public or his base (namely the press) do what he threatened to do in '00 and become the Democrat he truly IS! Why oh why didn't he run as Kerry's VP, since he and Kerry are SO alike and chummy. The party would be in much better shape had John stuck to his guns and done what he said he'd do. But hey, once you sellout your principles, what more is it to sellout your party!!!
Posted by: hmn | Oct 27, 2008 9:17:48 AM
It is simply: Do you want Warren Buffet as cheif economic advisor or do you want deregulation Graham. The choice is clear. Obama-Biden 08
Posted by: Eric | Oct 27, 2008 9:19:35 AM
Mike - I will amen that. I do not know what idiot decided that Sarah Palin would get the Hilleries to his side but who ever it was should be shot at dawn.
Posted by: Jenny Rome Ga | Oct 27, 2008 9:21:27 AM
Time for McCain to attack? LOL, he has done nothing but throw out smear after smear after smear. What a joke. Time for the Republicans to give up on the GOP and start looking to form a new party. Maybe the new party can have ideas and policies instead of just being a platform of hate, lies and smears.
Posted by: blakec | Oct 27, 2008 9:21:38 AM
"me: A vote for barack obama is a vote for corruption like we have never seen in the white house."
After literally years to make a factual, reality-based case, all the McCain camp is left with is naked fear mongering. Sad. There isn't a single good thing they can say about their candidates record now that he's spent the last 8 years as one of President Bush's chief enabler, selling his soul to the 'base,' who loves Sarah Palin and thinks President Bush has America on the right track, just for the nomination.
Posted by: jhw539 | Oct 27, 2008 9:23:34 AM
This is also about character and judgment. McCain has not only gone down the path of destruction when he picked Palin, but also showed that he cannot be trusted to lead a country because so far, he has not even been able to run a capable and credible campaign! He does not provide a steady hand, have no ideas or visions to lead us. He has been flip-flopping, trying to find some traction instead of having carefully thought out his ideas and plans for the long stretch. How could one expect such to be a leader? How could we expect him to lead us out of this morass? We must reject this very poor example of a so-called "leader", which McCain is obviously - NOT!!
Posted by: Karen | Oct 27, 2008 9:25:24 AM
The way I see it, Sarah Palin has a head full of air. She is overly confident, she fails to see that there are a lot of things she has no grasp or knowledge of.
Posted by: susie | Oct 27, 2008 9:27:15 AM
geevill -
The joke has already been played out on America - sending 4,200 of our soldiers to their deaths for a lie.
This election is no joke. We're taking the country back in force.
Posted by: clifton | Oct 27, 2008 9:27:46 AM
Rick is this a joke?
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Posted by: geevill | Oct 27, 2008 9:09:46 AM
geevill
hahahahaha it is real.
That was hilarious.
NEWSFLASH EVERYONE:
GEEVILLE IS NOW AWAKENING FROM DELUSION TO REALITY
Posted by: Omentum | Oct 27, 2008 9:28:57 AM
McCain is going to throw everything and everyone under the bus to get elected. As one o f his colleagues recently remarked Chaffee I believe, "John McCain is all about self, in bright flashing neon lights!"
Posted by: Bob | Oct 27, 2008 9:36:34 AM
susie: "She is overly confident, she fails to see that there are a lot of things she has no grasp or knowledge of."
I honestly see her as a clone of President Bush - a case of political acumen (Bush may have been handed the Presidency, but he earned the Texas statehouse) with no managerial capability.
Based on her record - not irrelevant fluff like the clothes or her church - I think she would be as big a disaster as President Bush. I dug deeper into my wallet for Obama after getting to know her wallet as I can no longer say with a straight face that at least both options on Nov 4 aren't President-Bush bad. I know some conservatives for whom her selection has led them to debate two options: Not voting, or writing in Ron Paul to register a protest vote.
Posted by: jhw539 | Oct 27, 2008 9:36:36 AM
susie, sounds more like obama to me.
Posted by: me | Oct 27, 2008 9:38:42 AM
Just wondering? Was there a "band" that opened for Obama that brought out a crowd of 100,000 people? Everytime Obama draws a huge crowd, the Rethugs say it's because some obscure band opened for him and they the crowed was actually were there for the free music. Well, who was it this time? What? No band, you say? Can it be 100,000 people turned out just to see Obama? But McCain has him just where he wants him, so no problem!
Posted by: geecee | Oct 27, 2008 9:40:21 AM
I am a Dem and angry at my own party for the recent financial disater with Freddie, Fannie, and ACORN. Here is another issue I am mad about:
Barack Obama's Strategy of Manufactured Crisis: First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Cloward and Frances Piven, the Cloward-Piven Strategy seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse. Promoted by Obama's Marxist mentor and radical community organizer Saul Alinsky. Read about Obama's strategy.
http://www. obamaunveiled. com
Posted by: Not-A-Citizen-Obama | Oct 27, 2008 9:40:57 AM
If Palin is the future of the GOP, I just have one thing to say
Obama 2012
Posted by: Omentum | Oct 27, 2008 9:40:58 AM
the coming landslide was predicted in the 06 vote.. what part of that anti-Bush anger didn't the media and conservatives understand?
Posted by: Gus | Oct 27, 2008 9:42:30 AM
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