McCain's senior advisor Steve Schmidt, who oversaw Arnold Schwarzenegger's move to the center-left in his landslide 2006 re-election campaign as California's governor, tells me that "the (advertising) points were completed on the first ad."
The other ad was supposed, according to multiple reports, to have run until July.
Okay then.
But the new ad is taking its place in, according to Schmidt, 54 broadcast markets in key swing states. Where exactly is it airing? Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Iowa, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Missouri. And on cable TV, where the ad will run on Fox News, CNN, Lifetime, The Learning Channel, and the Discovery Channel. But not, not surprisingly, MSNBC.
Thus, at the same moment in which he comes out for offshore oil drilling, John McCain has switched out his new/old TV ad in battleground states in favor of a new ad in which he explicitly breaks with the unpopular President George W. Bush on the greenhouse effect and climate change, and avoids any reference to the Iraq War.
Apparently, someone informed the senator that his maverick image was fast fading amidst his insistent grip upon a near historically unpopular president of his own party and a war which few want to lose but few want to continue.
So we now have a somewhat incongruous situation, from an ideological standpoint, in which McCain trumpets his independence from the greenhouse-denying Bush administration while continuing to push for a gas tax holiday (derided by economists across the spectrum) and reversing his long-held position by pushing for offshore oil drilling, a short-term fix which is political anathema on both of America's coasts.
Say goodbye to winning California, a long-shot in any case, as I have pointed out before.
Not that you see that in the ad. Which is all about the independent McCain.
And his new slogan: "Reform, Prosperity, Peace."
Peace?
Ah, what happened to another hundred years in Iraq? Or, alternatively, another five years in Iraq? As McCain put it in his repositioning speech last month that was overshadowed by Bush's attack on "appeasers" in his Knesset speech later that same day.
Forget about that.
That's not what the indies, who will actually decide this election, want. So John McCain -- who could be something of an Indie guy, as in Indiana Jones, the action star who pops up throughout 20th century history, as does McCain himself -- ain't talking war no more.
At least in his brand-new, changed-out TV advertising campaign.
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You know, i kind of liked McCain in 2000-mostly because he hated Bush so much. But his rapid transformation into yet another crazed fear mongering rightie is bizarre. Here's another great read on the subject:
Extraordinary. The only unsullied McCain credential-- his character--is being thrown under the bus by his own campaign. McCain has flipped and flopped more than a boated large mouthed bass since he secured the Republican nomination. Who is this man? He was against offshore drilling, now he's for it. He was against permanent presence in Iraq, now a 100 years of Arabitude seems just fine. He was against torture and warrantless eavesdropping, now that tune is changed. He was against handouts in the form of tax cuts to the wealthy, now they're esential to economic growth. He thinks upholding habeas corpus rights is worse than upholding slavery (Dred Scott). And now global warming is addressed by more coal and shale production, more oil drilling? And cap and trade isn't mandatory greenhouse emissions reduction? Only if the cap he refers to is his baseball cap with ExxonMobil written all over it. McCain the maverick? No, McCain the Judas sheep, the one who leads the flock to the slaughterhouse or the fleecing barn. Time to call this old fraud out and expose him for the ancient panderer he is fast becoming. Weave a circle round him thrice.
McCain has another ad out where he says "Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romanticizes about war". Gee, who do we know who does that?
I seem to recall Bush saying things like, "Bring-em on" and "It must be exciting for you ¦ in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger".
So does McCain think Bush is a fool and a fraud, or is this another case where his team didn't do any research?
How funny.
A republican environmentalist, could there really be such a thing?
Let me think about it. NO NO NO NO
How can you protect the environment if you do not believe the government should do a darn thing to protect people or the earth?
The government should not get involved, right?????
If the republican position is that the free market should determine everything and that government could only hurt the problem, not help it, then how can this be?
McCain for the environment.... How funny.
This is the same looser that wants to dig up ANWR ?
Of course not, why he is an environmentalist.
Roosevelt did not agree with traditional rethug policies. Read his Wikipedia biography.
McInsane admires Roosevelt only because Roosevelt advocated war too (this being pre-nuclear weapons). TR's business and social policies run counter to McInsane's.
"The Gelding"
I LOVE IT !
Just you watch, he'll construct fake oil platforms up and down the east coast ( except for south carolina, because lindsey graham thinks they're tacky ) while he keeps an endless war going for oil.
Energy policy anyone? .........bhueller? bhueller?
The day the McCain camp played it's "green" ad on TV, McCain announced he would push foroffshore drilling in Florida.
"Same as it ever was, same as it ever was" - McBush
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Posted June 17, 2008 | 08:39 PM (EST)