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Bugs · 10-09-2008, 09:20 PM

Even though the title of the article is “How Barack Obama Can Lose The Election”. The article actually outlines what the red team might do to win the election – and the authors are Obama supporters. I guess the train of thought being figure out what the other team will do, and then figure out how to counter it. Kind of the best offense is the best defense kind of thinking.

I think that might have been true before, but in the political world of today, those that don’t go on the offensive are doomed to stay on the sidelines after the elections are over.

Raleigh Telegram

Quote:

--A Republican Victory Plan--

· Compare McCain’s life to Obama’s. Obama's narrative wins at Barnes and Noble, but loses the general election. McCain’s story is "American," simple, and honorable. He has little to prove.

· Obama has much to prove and we mustn't let him. Closely examine his life narrative-–he becomes more and more exotic. Reinforce in the voters' minds his ethnic and racial background, his former church and minister, and his demonstrable inexperience.

· Biden is a gift. He supported our entry into Iraq. He's verbose, self-important, and a dependable gaffer. He's never attracted enough national votes to carry Wilmington.

· Stick with key McCain phrases—"keep America safe," "drill here, drill now," "win in Iraq," "tax relief"— with the added bonus that Obama will reject all of this as simplistic.

· Ask questions that recast Obama’s strengths as weaknesses. Obama speaks beautifully, but what has he done? Obama went to Harvard, but how is he qualified to be Commander-in-Chief? Obama proclaims: "Yes, we can," but has he explained how we will? His campaign has raised twice as much money as ours and isn’t ahead in the polls. What's that about? Just like the Democrats to get all the money and not know what to do with it.

· Attack, attack, attack. Almost any attack on Obama and Biden is effective, as long as it is not ludicrous or provably false. Both guys make many Americans uneasy. They are too cerebral, too enamored with their own voices. Emphasize their DIFFERENTNESS. Our mission: KEEP DOUBTS ALIVE!

· Obama and his campaign don't appreciate how exotic he is. They are more naïve, inexperienced, and vulnerable than they realize. What made Obama "so exciting" in the Democratic primaries will cost him the general election.

· The campaign doesn't get that Obama is heading down the path of Gore and Kerry. Both should have won easily but they talked too much, too long. Voters didn't connect with them on a personal level.

· Body language matters: Both Biden and Obama have noticeable swaggers. Obama's says "I'm a rock star presidential candidate;" Biden’s says "I'm a big shot U.S. Senator." McCain, who has much more to swagger about, doesn't.

· The majority of voters in swing states will be turned off by Obama's youthful, hip manner; complicated answers; and sarcastic, ironic attacks on McCain. Remember how poorly Obama did in Pennsylvania and Ohio against Hillary.

· Obama's cult will inevitably alienate independent voters and conservative Democrats who are not so easily enamored. Everyone loves a cult, except those who are not in it.

· Above all: turn Obama into a caricature—a Messiah slavishly followed by trendy, liberal, heads-in-the-clouds devotees—whose antithesis is McCain.