McCain Reaching Out To Liberal Blogs

Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign is trying to tap a new audience of potential voters by taking his campaign message straight to liberal and nonpolitical issues-based blogs, which reach millions of readers but don't often delve into conservative politics.

The strategy was in full swing yesterday when Mr. McCain invited non-conservative bloggers to join his regular blogger conference call, just hours after he delivered a major speech previewing his war strategy and other priorities for a first presidential term.

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Comments

[Doofus]

If the 'TLeague of Democracies' doesn't work
out, there's always the 'League of Planets'.

http://www.theleagueofplanets.com/

[Doofus]

He's got to reach out to liberals/progressives. Who
else will establish his 'League of Democracies'?

Gail Collins in today's NYT:

'The most intriguing part of the McCain vision is the League of Democracies. This is his plan for a planetary alliance of economically powerful, democratically governed nations whose leaders would work together to protect human rights and combat terrorism. The proper policy response, no doubt, is: what about the United Nations? But all I really want to know is: will there be uniforms?

Jan. 1, 2013: President McCain celebrated the multitudinous achievements of his first four years in office with special friends in the White House. The tiny American contingent of troops still stationed in Iraq joined the festivities by satellite from a golf course in Baghdad, where they have been spending their time since the war was won.

Members of the League of Democracies opened the New Year"s ceremony with their pledge to "fight a never-ending battle for truth, justice and the small-d-democratic way." Wearing their colorful terrorism-fighting costumes were French President Nicolas Sarkozy, now better known to the planet by his nom de guerre of Pâté Man, and Germany"s green-haired Angela (EcoGirl) Merkel, accompanied as always by her sidekick, Icy the Polar Bear. Silvio Berlusconi of Italy wore a business suit, but still wowed the crowd with his trademark power of shooting molten-gold bullion at his assailants.'

[BADEN]

Go Ahead - ask him...what in the world is an INTERNATIONAL Republican?

He's the president of them:

http://www.iri.org/board.asp

[Doofus]

'Will there be uniforms?'

Is Chewbacca not a Wookiee? Is Spock not a Vulcan? Is Worf not a Klingon?

[BADEN]

I've told McCain once and I've told him twice...

He is bound by his words, literally.
He can't get out of it.
Like a Chinese finger puzzle.

[Lisette]

McCain is doomed !!!!!!!
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[Doofus]

Ok, Senator McCain, explain how doubling the national
debt under Bush worked for US, and how you doing the
same is going to work even better.

[fourex]

John your arms are to short to grasp reality.

[Marlyn]

John McCane should forget about trying to win voters from liberal blogs, and instead concentrate on winning his own base.

[kellygrrrl]

exactly!
he's going to have a hard time getting the Conservative Base to back him
and it's futile to attempt to get Libs to back him.

but if he wants to hear my opinion, I'd be happy to share it with him
(even though a lady should not speak in such nasty terms)

[iBgood]

I have a message for him.

FU

[blackjack]

The reason that McCain is reaching out to the liberal Blogers is that both H.Clinton and McCain are controled by the same puppet-master LIE-berman and that is where H. Clinton hard core base is these are the most likley to vote for McCain if H.Clinton is not the one.

[sparkandy]

We all already know people who will vote for McCain if Clinton isnt' the nominee. And people who wouldn't have voted if Obama hadn't been nominated. And people who will vote for any Democrat and people who would NEVER vote for a Democrat. If McCain were to post something here, for instance, it probably wouldn't make anyone change their minds. The only thing we might learn is how mature and polite HuffPo readers can be (or not be).

[mamacat]

Sen. McCain should be encouraged to talk. The more he says, the more people will be repulsed by what he says. He has flipped and flopped so far to the right of the issues of the day, that he no longer makes much sense. The best he can do is talk in very broad generalities, saying that at the end of HIS presidency, all of our problems will be fixed. Sure, John, but we already bought the Brooklyn Bridge from the last Republican to run for office.

[donaldw6]

Sure, John, come on over and post at Huffington. We'll give you a cheery liberal blog site welcome. We'll even send the moderators off to a movie that day, so we can have a real heart-to-heart.

Come on, John! We don't bite! We just ask questions. And cite references. And cross-check statements. And call out bs-ers. Let's have a little party, John.

[kellygrrrl]

Dang! that would be quite an afternoon.

[PioneerKing]

McCain is going to co-opt the liberal bloggers like he has done the main stream media who don't challenge McCain's foreign policy and national security mistakes - it will work because McCain is only reaching out to the liberal bloggers who have already bought into the "straight talking maverick" myth of McCain.

[Marlyn]

"McCain is only reaching out to the liberal bloggers who have already bought into the straight talking maverick myth" ???

So who might that be? As a mathematician, I have to label that group as the EMPTY SET.

[abigail1]

if he's reaching out to liberal blogs i hope he's ready to have his arm bitten off.

In spite of all the compromises he has made in the last 7 years he still thinks he's the same person who ran in 2000. It's sad really, how out of touch he is with who he has become.

[noneIn2008]

The people commenting, continue to underestimate McCain. If you simply dismiss him, you will lose. consider him a very viable threat to the Democrats. Lose sleep worrying about what he will do next.

To stop him, you need to understand the threat he poses. If you simply write him off as old, etc. you will get blind sided. This article started to expose one of his "rope a dope" strategies. Do not simply dismiss him, realize the threat, realize the attack machine (brass knuckles in a velvet glove), realize the his potential to fool millions.

Take the time to do your research on the threat he poses. Understand his positions and how he plays fast and loose with facts. Understand how he has been able to manipulate Democrats in Congress for decades. Understand how he is able to manipulate the media.
Take the threat of McCain as President very seriously.

[Marlyn]

"Understand how he is able to manipulate the media." ???

McCane doesn't manipulate the media. The Republican owners of the MSM want a Republican in office. They are the ones that do the manipulating ... NOT McCane.

[donaldw6]

I have no respect for McCain, and I don't think he's hiding any kind of hitherto unknown abilities. That said, I have no respect for George Bush, never did, and yet he "won" the last two elections. I will lose sleep, I will do my research and understand him, not because he is formidable, but because he is the GOP candidate. That makes him dangerous in the extreme.

[PioneerKing]

McCain is going after the bloggers who suppported Hillary - pretty savvy drive the wedge in and further divide the party by co-opting the liberal voice

[Marlyn]

"McCain is going after the bloggers who suppported Hillary"

OK, but Hillary is NOT a liberal (she calls herself a progressive, what ever that is).

[debwarot]

I have come to a similar conclusion. I think we have a veritable lion masquerading as a silly old goat. He hasn't survived in the political arena this long because he is an idiot. With John McCain, what you see is not always going to be what you get.

[verlaine]

Obama will totally wipe the floor with McCain in their debates. McCain won't even know what hit him.

[SuiginTou7]

Agreed, now that he's been paticing with Hillary and McCain has so many senior moments, I can't wait for their first debate.

[beboy]

Sen. Obama didn't seem to know what hit him in the last debate. That's why it was the last debate!

[lindaqqq]

Hillary and George set him up. The good thing about this is it didnt kill him, just made him stronger.

[seejake]

quote: "We hope to be the most accessible and transparent campaign in history,"

How does Cindy McCain refusing to release her tax returns count as being transparent?

Who does this old fart think he's fooling anyway?

[2351]

Now McCain has the republicans attacking Michelle Obama. Fox has really gone too far. So what happens if McCains wife starts getting trashed?

[Podewumun]

If you think McCain's nads are old and shriveled up now, after he takes on HuffPo, they'll turn to dust.

[realtalk]

MAYBE McCAIN COULD EXPLAIN TO US WHY HIS FOREIGN POLICY INCLUDES WAR WITH RUSSIA, AND CHINA:

On March 26, 2008, McCain gave a speech on FOREIGN POLICY in Los Angeles that was billed as his most comprehensive statement on the subject. It contained within it the most radical idea put forward by a major candidate for the presidency in 25 years. Yet almost no one noticed. BIG SURPRISE!!!

In his speech McCain proposed that the United States expel Russia from the G8, the group of advanced industrial countries. Moscow was included in this body in the 1990s to recognize and reward it for peacefully ending the cold war on Western terms, dismantling the Soviet empire and withdrawing from large chunks of the old Russian Empire as well. McCain also proposed that the United States EXCLUDED China from the councils of power.

What McCain has announced is momentous"that the United States should adopt a policy of active exclusion and hostility toward two major global powers. It would reverse a decades-old bipartisan American policy of integrating these two countries into the global order, a policy that began under Richard Nixon (with Beijing) and continued under Ronald Reagan (with Moscow). It is a policy that would alienate many countries in Europe and Asia who would see it as an attempt by Washington to begin a new cold war.


http://www.newsweek.com/id/134317

[Marlyn]

"a policy of active exclusion and hostility"

Yes, a continuation of the Bush doctrine.

[Americanium]

Says the the Liberal Blogger to another Liberal Blogger, " McCain has invited us to a bloggers conference, Ohhh we are so important ], we should go and be on our best behavior."

The other Liberal Blogger replied. "Yeah!! We must not say or write anything to piss him off or we won't be invited to anymore conferences or BBQs. We have hit the big times!!!!! Yeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!"

So much for terms liberal blogger and MSM. The lines have been blurred.

Politicians are smart. McCain knows that to just appeal to a person's inert selfishness and their sense of self-importance and they cave like an empty potato sack.

Liberal bloggers are no different from other members of the MSM. Just look at aHuffPo and the Bittergate saga.

[Marlyn]

"Liberal bloggers are no different from other members of the MSM." ???

Liberal bloggers are NOT part of the MSM. Haven't you heard, there are no liberal voices in the MSM (Corporate controlled right wing TV networks).

[getoffmedz]

zzzzzzzzzzzz

[Podewumun]

Roll over, dear. lol

[realtalk]

Maybe McCain can explain why he cooperated with the enemy when he was a prisoner of war, and received special treatment by the Vietnamese Government for it!! As a matter of PUBLIC GOVERNMENT RECORD (records that have been CLASSIFIED by the US government: how convenient!!! How about McCain tell us why he won't get the tapes UNCLASSIFIED so we can all see how he disrespected the USA)

McCain also made over 32 TAPES of PROPAGANDA for the Vietnamese Government, the enemy, and it seems he was one of the only prisoner of war in Veitnam to have cooperated with the enemy.

McCain also gave interviews to the Vietnamese communist news service, interviews that were NOT flattering to the USA, but were disrespectul to this country.

Why did you do that McCain?! I think the citizens if this country, as well as the soldiers who served with you, and did NOT betray their country like you did, would really like to know why you worked for the enemy during the Vietnam war, and why you don't want Americans to see what it was you said about this country to the Vietnamese government.

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/02/17/in-1992-pows-accused-mccain-of-collaborating-with-vietnamese/

[debwarot]

Actually, whatever he did or didn't do many years ago under prolonged torture is not relevant at this point.

[Agentlady007]

This man is not a leader IMO. He will need an administration of pure genius to lead us as the President. If he is reading this, make sure you test the IQ of everyone you higher, and make sure they are smart, otherwise, this article is right.