What is the best timing to campaign AGAINST someone?

[Poiuyt]

Is it better to knock him down before he gets a chance to build momentum, or better to go after him closer to the election when it would be fresh in the voters minds?

I ask because I am getting so sick of the way the media is building up John McCain as some sort of lovable maverick. Right now, he looks like the MSM really wants to get this guy into office. As far as the voters are concerned, image is everything. If the media likes him, he'll be elected.

I think, however, he could easily be removed as a candidate if people knew what he was really like and if some of the myths could be debunked. He is sitting on a big pedestal right now, but It is only made of straw.

[gekeeley]

1. Good point...

One of my Democratic friends recently told me that they "wouldn't mind" a McCain presidency... to while I responded "whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!" The man went to Vietnam, was a POW, served honorably in the Senate for many many years, but when push comes to shove, he's a conservative looking for a conservative America. The best thing he ever did for his image, which ironically is the worst thing he ever did for his image FOR US LIBERAL was become a regular guest on the Daily Show. Damn him and his quick wit.

Still, no thanks to a McCain White House.

[Poiuyt]

4. Yes he was a POW, but did you know that he divulged military secrets to

avoid torture? These are the kinds of pedestals that need to be removed:

http://www.namvets.com/Reading/john_mccain_is_no_war_hero.htm

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The fact is, in exchange for better medical treatment, McCain violated this code four days after being captured on Oct. 26, 1967. In a U.S. News and World Report interview dated May 14, 1973, two months after he was released, McCain admitted that he exchanged military information in exchange for spending six weeks in a hospital normally reserve for North Vietnamese Military officers.

U.S. government records show that less than two weeks after he was taken to the hospital, Hanoi's press began quoting specific military information, including the name of the aircraft carrier on which McCain had been based, information about the location of rescue ships and the order of which his attack was supposed to take place. The records demonstrate, according to the Dispatch article that McCain continued to collaborate with the Communists after he recovered from his injuries. He did a number of propaganda broadcasts that were aimed at destroying the moral of American servicemen fighting in the jungles of South Vietnam, On June 4, 1969, a U.S. Wire Service story reported one of McCain's broadcasts.

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[MadMaddie]

2. I suggest looking at how the Republicans destroyed his chance...

to beat *.

I am not suggesting underhand nasty rumors like they used...they leaked these rumors and then the rumors took a life on their own.

I would say show how he is trying to play both sides of the fence.....show why Democrats should definitely not vote for him....

Show moderate Republicans that he is the same as * and nothing will change under him.....

[MercutioATC]

3. Immediately after a dead hooker is found in their trunk?

:shrug: