Japi's Blog

McCain is a hot head?

Two articles written by typically conservative newspapers called out John McCain for his "hot-headedness" reaction to the current government bailout.

The Wall Street Journal article titled McCain's Scapegoat discusses how McCain unfairly called for Christopher Cox's head.  The article closes with:

"In a crisis, voters want steady, calm leadership, not easy, misleading answers that will do nothing to help. Mr. McCain is sounding like a candidate searching for a political foil rather than a genuine solution. He'll never beat Mr. Obama by running as an angry populist like Al Gore, circa 2000."

In an even more eye-opening article in The Washington Post titled McCain Loses His Head, George F. Will (a leader in the conservative community)... "Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama."

Mr. Will ends his article with a statement that pretty clearly supports Obama (I was blown away!)

"It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed?"

Is this the beginning of the end for the McCain campaign or will this have little to no effect on the election. 

In my opninion this just adds more spice to this already habanero-laced campaign... which makes it that more interesting.

The Republican Convention so far

I've watched the Republican National Convention on and off the last few days... one of the things that so far has stood out is that most of the speeches are either saying wonderful things about McCain or criticizing Obama.... but there is little to no substance when it comes to the issues.  I think they have wasted several days of a large TV audience where they could have made it very clear how McCain would make our lives better.

I thought Governor Palin delivered a great speech... I had not seen her speak before and was very impressed... but the content of the speech was very negative and I think she also missed a great opportunity to rise above the fray.  So it looks like the Republicans are just going to run a negative campaign and hope it sticks.  There was an unexpected reaction after Palin's speech - Obama's campaign received a record $10 million in one day.

Attacking Obama is a very risky strategy.... when Hillary Clinton ran negative ads or had negative attacks against Obama, his lead increased.  The only way Clinton got back in the race was when she started talking about what she would do to help the economy, etc... but it was too little to late to win the nomination.

There WAS one speech I've really enjoyed... Mike Huckabee... he has a great sense of humor and good delivery.

I am very interested in what the polls will show next week.  So far there's been little to no movement for either side.