Comments on: Not A Game Changer http://www.eckernet.com/2008/10/not_a_game_changer.html Pissing you off and making you laugh since 2002 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:55:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: SomeGuyYouKnow http://www.eckernet.com/2008/10/not_a_game_changer.html/comment-page-1#comment-4208 SomeGuyYouKnow Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:06:01 +0000 http://www.eckernet.com/?p=2689#comment-4208 To frame the whole "argument" we're having, I think we're both reflecting on the fact that it's taken McCain until three weeks before the election to decide to campaign as a Republican on economic issues, and it took a "from the mouths of plumbers" comment to do it. Obama is a disciplined fellow campaign-wise, but how much earlier would this have come out had it been more vigously pressed by McCain. I honestly think that McCain beleives the Republican economic message but doesn't articulate it naturally, or well. I'm sure through knowledge of his wife's companyt, etc, he sees the impact taxation has on small business, and thus job creation, but he doesn't live it day to day like a plumber that hopes to buy the company he works for. That said, the plumber never edited Harvard Law Review, so he clearly doesn't know what he's talking about. To frame the whole “argument” we’re having, I think we’re both reflecting on the fact that it’s taken McCain until three weeks before the election to decide to campaign as a Republican on economic issues, and it took a “from the mouths of plumbers” comment to do it.

Obama is a disciplined fellow campaign-wise, but how much earlier would this have come out had it been more vigously pressed by McCain.

I honestly think that McCain beleives the Republican economic message but doesn’t articulate it naturally, or well. I’m sure through knowledge of his wife’s companyt, etc, he sees the impact taxation has on small business, and thus job creation, but he doesn’t live it day to day like a plumber that hopes to buy the company he works for.

That said, the plumber never edited Harvard Law Review, so he clearly doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

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]]> By: Kevin http://www.eckernet.com/2008/10/not_a_game_changer.html/comment-page-1#comment-4206 Kevin Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:00:37 +0000 http://www.eckernet.com/?p=2689#comment-4206 I was going to respond to your comment, but my response got so long it's gonna turn into it's own post later tonite. I was going to respond to your comment, but my response got so long it’s gonna turn into it’s own post later tonite.

]]> By: SomeGuyYouKnow http://www.eckernet.com/2008/10/not_a_game_changer.html/comment-page-1#comment-4205 SomeGuyYouKnow Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:56:33 +0000 http://www.eckernet.com/?p=2689#comment-4205 Apoologoze fpr my typps & loisy splling in previs connemt. Apoologoze fpr my typps & loisy splling in previs connemt.

]]> By: SomeGuyYouKnow http://www.eckernet.com/2008/10/not_a_game_changer.html/comment-page-1#comment-4209 SomeGuyYouKnow Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:54:29 +0000 http://www.eckernet.com/?p=2689#comment-4209 The "Joe the Plumber" thing puts the tax-and-spend issue front and center in a way that people can identify with. That's a huge win for Republicans. When Obama cab simply tax the "richest 5%" it sounds like the other guy. When that "richest 5%" becomes a small business owner with a high taxable income due to S-corp or LLC status, it really hits home to people. I think "spread the wealth around" is something that falls easily out of the mouth of a liberal's liberal like Obama, but really resonantes negatively with the American people. It's kind of like John Jerry's "Global Test" comment, but I hope on a bigger scale. This is a gift from the political gods for McCain, he now needs to run with it. He needs to hammer this again, and again, and again. In doing so, he may actually earn the support of Joe W., and those like him. The “Joe the Plumber” thing puts the tax-and-spend issue front and center in a way that people can identify with. That’s a huge win for Republicans.

When Obama cab simply tax the “richest 5%” it sounds like the other guy. When that “richest 5%” becomes a small business owner with a high taxable income due to S-corp or LLC status, it really hits home to people.

I think “spread the wealth around” is something that falls easily out of the mouth of a liberal’s liberal like Obama, but really resonantes negatively with the American people. It’s kind of like John Jerry’s “Global Test” comment, but I hope on a bigger scale.

This is a gift from the political gods for McCain, he now needs to run with it.
He needs to hammer this again, and again, and again. In doing so, he may actually earn the support of Joe W., and those like him.

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