Davis: Truth or Bald Faced Lie?

[Skitter]

Rick Davis Sees "One of the Greatest Comebacks"

 

By Juliet Eilperin

GOP presidential nominee John McCain's advisers today said their candidate had closed the gap with Barack Obama over the past few days and would be competitive with the Democrat as voters headed to the polls Tuesday.

 

"We are witnessing, I believe, probably one of the greatest comebacks that you've seen since John McCain won the primary," his campaign manager, Rick Davis, said in a conference call with reporters, adding that when it came to the electoral votes needed for victory, "We believe, with the combination of our base states and the states we've been able to put into play this week, we can achieve 270."

 

 

My guess: A huge lie attempting to sway voters

[DMacLeod]

One can only hope. All will be said and done come Tuesday.

[ken r]

Truth or bald faced lie? The man is predicting a comeback of his candidate. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

This thread is a waste of bandwidth.

[Skitter]

then why did you post?

 

Try reading it again slowly ken r nh

[ken r]

Read it again with the same result. Unless he can see into the future, he's making a prediction.

 

Your concept of truth and lies seems somewhat distorted.

[needlefishaddict]

this is just classic GOTV

One side. who is behind..rally the troops with "we are coming back"

One side says "don't believe the hype"

Pick which side you think this is.

[Triet]

Rick Davis Sees "One of the Greatest Comebacks"

 

By Juliet Eilperin

GOP presidential nominee John McCain's advisers today said their candidate had closed the gap with Barack Obama over the past few days and would be competitive with the Democrat as voters headed to the polls Tuesday.

 

"We are witnessing, I believe, probably one of the greatest comebacks that you've seen since John McCain won the primary," his campaign manager, Rick Davis, said in a conference call with reporters, adding that when it came to the electoral votes needed for victory, "We believe, with the combination of our base states and the states we've been able to put into play this week, we can achieve 270."

 

 

My guess: A huge lie attempting to sway voters

 

Drudge is reporting that McCain is rallying with NASCAR voters. Hey it is a popular sport.........

[sportyguy33]

Drudge is reporting that McCain is rallying with NASCAR voters. Hey it is a popular sport.........

 

 

Would They Be an Offshot of the Joe Six pack Demographics

[Chuckles]

Drudge is reporting that McCain is rallying with NASCAR voters. Hey it is a popular sport.........

 

Yup.. where many of the greatest stars crash and burn, baby.

[Skitter]

Read it again with the same result. Unless he can see into the future, he's making a prediction.

 

Your concept of truth and lies seems somewhat distorted.

 

 

 

John McCain's advisers today said their candidate had closed the gap with Barack Obama over the past few days and would be competitive with the Democrat as voters headed to the polls Tuesday.

They have not closed the gap.... the gap has widened.

 

"We are witnessing, I believe, probably one of the greatest comebacks that you've seen since John McCain won the primary," his campaign manager, Rick Davis

 

There is no comeback.... this is a lie to influence voters

[Triet]

 

The New Electoral Sex Symbol: Nascar Dad

 

By JEFF MACGREGOR

Published: January 18, 2004

FIRST race of the year, the 500 at Daytona, I'm standing next to Nascar dad for the anthem. Takes off his sunglasses, holds his hand over his heart. He's a big man, 40's, 6-foot-3, a gut-sprung 225, biker leather head to toe and a beard on him like ZZ Rasputin.

Comes to the end of our national song, 250,000 people shouting and applauding, flags snapping everywhere, and a sound rumbles low up out of the ovation and comes down out of the sky and breaks out of the clouds like a thunderclap. It's the pre-race flyover, four F-16's with the burners lit, 200 feet off the deck at 400 miles an hour and the crowd goes crazy. The sky cracks and the smell of jet exhaust fouls the grandstands. I, sophisticated tourist sarcast, turn to Nascar dad, cock my eyebrow and shout, ''Our tax dollars at work, huh?''

He looks down at me through the beard, blue-eyed and red-faced in the heat. ''Damn straight,'' he says, ''damn straight,'' as the tears roll down his cheeks.

Celinda Lake isn't the place Nascar dad likes to do his bass fishing. Celinda Lake is the name of the Democratic pollster and strategist who coined the term Nascar dad. Nascar dad is, apparently, the white, heterosexual embodiment of the swing voter in this next election, and a great deal of time and effort and money are being spent trying to hunt the poor guy down.

He's defined as a blue-collar wage earner (rural? urban? suburban? just bourbon?) disaffected with politics and parties and willing to throw a vote to the candidate who speaks to his needs. Jobs, education, health care and so forth. Which way he feels on which issues, though, remains a mystery.

He may have a Confederate flag stuck to the bumper of his pickup truck -- unless he's driving his wife's Subaru, in which case the bumper reads ''Mary Kay'' or ''Lose Weight Now, Ask Me How.'' He's out there somewhere, though, wandering the highways, and the candidates are determined to find him.

I spent every mile of an entire season with Nascar dad. Note to pollsters: He's not that hard to spot. Nice guy, but complicated.

He wears khakis and cords and polo shirts, sleeveless T's and cutoffs and souvenir hats. He's bearded and clean shaven, short and long, fat and lean, drunk out of his mind and sober as a Stoic. He wears a mullet; no, he doesn't. He's neat as a Marine; he looks like the last man out of a mine collapse. Sometimes he throws Mardi Gras beads at your wife and yells at her to take off her blouse. Other mornings, the sun tipping the first brightness over the lip of the grandstands, throwing hard shadows, he kneels in a group with the other Nascar dads and prays. Race day is Sunday, after all.

The man the pollsters imagine isn't real, of course. He's a hypothetical, a statistical mean, the median reach of some mystical bell curve. He's a catch phrase, a hot topic, grist for the Sunday morning television mill. He's nothing more than apt tactical shorthand for the campaign ahead. '' Joe Six-Pack,'' they called him once, and ''the Angry White Male.'' Like the political holy ghost, he's everywhere and he's nowhere......

[Chuckles]

The New Electoral Sex Symbol: Nascar Dad

 

I thought it was snomachine Dad?

[Patrick9915]

I really have no idea how anyone can vote for McCain.

 

When Kerry was running and he changed positions, the right crucified him as a flip-flopper. 2000 McCain was a completely different person than 2008 McCain.

 

Now, I don't think flip-flopping is necessarily bad. If you change your opinion based on the latest available facts, that's good. You're staying current. McCain, though, hasn't just flip-flopped. He has done a complete 180. McCain used to be a respectable guy. He spoke his mind about what he thought was best and even if I disagreed, I could still respect him.

 

I see him speak now and man... it looks like he is in pain saying some of the stuff he says. He knows it isn't true or at the very least not the way he wants to go. He looks like he's on the verge of a panic or heart attack sometimes.

 

When you add on that I have heard very little on the pro-McCain side, why would I vote for the guy? Nearly everything I've heard has been anti-Obama and most of that has been just plain BS. He's a muslim, he's not an American... blah blah blah. I'm not even saying that some of the stuff couldn't be possible but there is a lot of BS out there.

 

All the Republicans have done this campaign is piss me off. They have insulted my intelligence with Palin. Telling me she has foreign experience because she can see Russia from her house... Come on. The fact that she still preaches abstinence only when her own daughter couldn't heed her advice. That's nothing against Bristol. This is against her mother's advocacy. Telling me that I'm not a real American. No way in hell.

 

McCain hasn't done much better by generating all of this Obama hate and then doing very little to stop the blatant lies. He's a socialist. No he isn't.

 

His whole campaign has been preying on the unintelligent and the easily scared by just circulating blatant nonsense. How can someone support that?

 

If the elections are as close as Davis says, I truly feel sorry for this country. We have become a quivering mass of ignorance if we can accept just blatant ******** lies like that.

[ken r]

John McCain's advisers today said their candidate had closed the gap with Barack Obama over the past few days and would be competitive with the Democrat as voters headed to the polls Tuesday.

They have not closed the gap.... the gap has widened.

 

"We are witnessing, I believe, probably one of the greatest comebacks that you've seen since John McCain won the primary," his campaign manager, Rick Davis

 

There is no comeback.... this is a lie to influence voters

 

 

He is trying to influence voters. But lieing?

Again, your concept of truth and lies is distorted.