samgamgee

unless they pluck their brains out of the dark, the gop campaign managers have succeeded again to bring about failure. just like ’92 and ’96 the ground game being run is pathetic and stupid. i was going to post on this later, but several things tonite prompted me to do it earlier. there is much out there that supports this notion…and i wished it weren’t so. the thing that nailed it for me tonite was this piece in time on the effort in Virginia. it doesn’t take much thought to see how the campaigns are being handled differently. in an age ripe with the immediate…the net, twitter, facebook, etc. a campaign should be embracing and encouraging engagment at all levels. read this clip…and to me it becomes clear…time reporter karen tumulty writes…

The Republicans wouldn’t allow me to tag along with their volunteers, so I drove 30 minutes across the county to the Obama field office….The campaign handed me a packet of addresses and sent me out to meet…

yep…even locally i agreed to make some phone calls… i’m a reagan republican, i am a precinct committeeman…i thought its the least i should do…but the list i was given to call has many errors…as i looked over i thought…you’ve got to be kidding me…one family i know personally hasn’t lived in this area for 7 years…amazing.

finally… my old pal wm kristol nailed it on the tube this weekend and again in todays nyt...

The 2008 campaign is now about something very big — both our future prosperity and our national security. Yet the McCain campaign has become smaller.  What McCain needs to do is junk the whole thing and start over.

there is much at stake…bill goes on to say as clearly as can be said…

McCain should stop unveiling gimmicky proposals every couple of days that pretend to deal with the financial crisis. He should tell the truth — we’re in uncharted waters, no one is certain what to do, and no one knows what the situation will be on Jan. 20, 2009. But what we do know is that we could use someone as president who’s shown in his career the kind of sound judgment and strong leadership we’ll need to make it through the crisis.

i’ll be honest…mccain is not my first choice…but the election has come down to either him or the other guy. mccain needs to be the maverick he says he is. he needs to reflect on the principles he says he embraces and lead. its not over, but these waters are treacherous…and mccain needs to draw on that cowboy legacy of another great american….rwr.

p.s. don’t even get me started on why gov. palin is limited to stump speeches…she should have owned all media from last week until we get to november.