The Candidates
Be sure to check it out at 11:35pm EST.
Although the formal (extra official) announcement won’t be until “early April,” right after the release of the Q1 numbers.
Speaking of McCain, his campaign site has added his official profiles on YouTube, Facebook and MySpace. I found this video that I hadn’t seen before, but I think it goes a long way to show the type of obstacles he’s overcome and the perseverance he still exhibits to this day. Rumors of his campaign’s collapse have been greatly exaggerated.
“…diving into the fire…”
February 28th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
I do give the McCain campaign some credit, instead of pushing the panic button like Romney; they seem to be doing something right.
February 28th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
This is a bit off-subject (I should write this in another topic). But did everyone read about the Asian press being miffed at Hillary’s campaign because of some apparant “snub” when they tried to get into some sort of meeting and were turned away? Seems like it was merely a technical glitch of some kind. HOWEVER, the way Clinton responded, was “We APOLOGIZE”……… Just to show you what kind of president Rudy would be, he MOST LIKELY would have responded: We owe no apology, it was a misunderstanding. Try us again.
KT (Joe)
February 28th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Why is he doing it on Letterman? I think McCain has a bad enough rap with being in the pocket of the MSM. Letterman is funny, but a liberal. Why there?
If Romney announcing at the Ford Museum had some anti-semetic undertone mistake to it, than I argue the Letterman show has a liberal undertone to it.
February 28th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
GOP Activist,
That’s the thing. The McCain campaign is taking it slow and steady. His poll numbers have dipped slightly, but that’s because he got caught in an unfortunate convergence of the Iraq surge and the Rudy surge. But like I’ve been saying for a while now, polls are good benchmarks to determine the successes and failures. McCain would be smart to stay in the news, but at the same time work to win over skeptical conservatives and draw distinctions between his views and those of Rudy and Romney. There’s no need to rush. His polls will be in a much better position come summer. It’s better to peak in January of 2008 than peak in February of 2007.
Regarding Romney, he’s stuck in a hard place. He’s been getting pounded from all sides for months now. McCain, Brownback, Huckabee, Giuliani and even Gilmore have attacked him from the right and from the Dems, especially Hillary, from the left. Not a week goes by when the MSM doesn’t write a negative piece about him. Romneyites like to say that this proves that everyone is just terrified of him, but it’s becoming clearer that he’s just the opposite. Remember when Hillary and McCain got into a nasty spat over Iraq and Vietnam a couple months ago, her aide mentioned something about McCain being in captivity (which crossed a line) and a couple hours later, Hillary called McCain personally to apologize. Contrast that with the Romney-Hillary spat last month over Iran. Romney said that she was demonstrating “timidity” and Hillary’s spokesman responded that “Given his record of flip flops, the only thing that’s timid are Governor Romney’s convictions.” She swatted him down like he was a mere fly in her face. So, it’s not surprising that he’s trying to deflect the criticism by taking on Giuliani (after all, Romney isn’t going to get anywhere in the polls unless he knocks Rudy down a peg or two), but as Kavon and Soren have said, attacking Rudy could cause Romney even more trouble than it’s worth.
Jason,
Probably because Letterman has about 5 million viewers that McCain will reach instantly which means more supporters and more money. Not to mention it’ll be replayed on all the news shows in the morning. How much coverage did Romney’s announcement speech get in the MSM again?
Also, speaking at the Ford museum and on Letterman are two rather different things. Ford did receive the “Grand Cross of the German Eagle” from Hitler. Letterman voted for Kerry.
February 28th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Ford also invented the automobile and transformed the industrial revolution. Letterman is a liberal MSM shill. No one thinks Romney is an anti-Semite, everyone thinks McCain is in bed with the MSM.
McCain could have reached millions on a lot of shows.
February 28th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Although he is not my #1 choice (or #2 or #3 for that matter), I do think that this is a very good move by McCain.
I don’t see any conservative being less likely to consider him simply because he announces on Letterman.
Although I am a strong Romney supporter, I agree with LJ. I have to concede that this type of announcement will greatly exceed that of Romney’s in terms of impact.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Jason,
everyone thinks McCain is in bed with the MSM.
Still? Have you read the kinds of pieces being written about McCain these days in the MSM, not very flattering. This strikes me as another from of Gotcha! towards him.
“OMG, McCain announced on Letterman! I thought he was a conservative, but now he has revealed the truth - he’s a liberal! His lifetime ACU rating of 83 really fooled me. How could I have been so stupid?”
February 28th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
LJ,
On it’s own it’s nothing. With a long history, it’s just business as usual.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Jason,
Look, I won’t lie, obviously McCain does have some support remaining in the MSM. But I think a lot of people who point that out in order to knock him, essentially miss the point. It’s better to engage them instead of bashing them. Part of the reason that GWB has endured some of the worst approval ratings in the past 100 years is that he has alternated between bashing the MSM to outright ignoring them. This has turned virtually the entire press corps against him and they’ve been spinning negative stories all the time. At least with McCain, he has the respect and admiration of a lot of reporters and journalists (many of who are die hard liberals and lots who aren’t), but when he gives interviews or goes on Leno, Letterman or Stewart, he articulates and defends conservative ideas that would never have penetrated that particular audience. The conservative movement needs a spokesman who can break the monopoly of liberalism in today’s media. If conservatives just give talks to Fox News, you’re essentially abdicating a whole other large swath of America.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
LJ,
that’s a good point.
February 28th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
In case anyone is interested, I just saw the Mitt Romney ad air for the first time here in Florida… and it came on CBS two minutes before the Letterman episode. Coincidence?
March 1st, 2007 at 12:27 am
Post #1,
Romney hitting the panic button? I don’t really see that at all. The only people who seem to be in a panic is everyone trying to tear him down.
As for McCain, at least he didn’t announce on The Daily Show. As for latenight, I skew towards Leno and Conan.