Tuesday, October 14, 2008

What McCain should say in the debate.

McCain needs to play hardball if he wants to win this election. He has to stop listening to the media when they tell him to tone down his attacks. He needs to put all the issues on the table for the people to see in this debate. He needs to have Gianna Jensen present in the audience. She is a woman who as a 24 week fetus survived an attempt to abort her, despite the efforts of the doctor intent on killing her. She and others pressed for a bill to require medical treatment for babies that are delivered alive after attempted abortions. A bill which Obama voted against and defeated. McCain needs to ask her to stand up in the audience and then ask Obama to explain to her why he thinks she should be dead. Ask why did Obama vote against this bill even after several nurses testified that they witnessed 'fetuses' crying on the floor, untreated, for nearly an hour before they finally died. That's a question he deserves to be asked on national television. He needs to be asked about his claims to support the second amendment, despite voting for every gun ban, ammo ban, gun restriction, ever proposed. Why did he simply reply 'YES' when asked "Should handguns be banned?" if he supports gun rights. Ask him if he will then and there pledge to never support further restrictions on currently legal firearms. Talk about his mentor Rev Wright, a man that screams "God Damn America" from the pulpit and blames the "USofKKKA" for creating AIDS. Ask why it took him 20 years to realize this man is a racist loon. Ask why he spent years working with terrorist Bill Ayers, a man who tried to kill soldiers and their wives. A man who bombed the pentagon. A man photographed in 2001 (years after Obama began working with him and years before he would stop) standing on an American flag with the quote "Guilty as Sin, Free as a Bird". Ask when he claimed he thought the man was 'rehabilitated' did he see his friend on that magazine cover? Ask him what rehabilitation is required for a man responsible for multiple bombings and multiple deaths. Is saying 'sorry' good enough? He needs also to attack Obama's tax plan as just another welfare program. Point out that the McCain plan to cut corporate taxes will benefit everyone. Point out that business taxes are be paid by the customers, the employees, and the shareholders. Tell people that higher taxes on businesses are forcing their jobs overseas, forcing the cost of the goods they buy to climb, and hurting the value of their 401'ks. If McCain wants to win, he better stop playing softball. 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Point out that the McCain plan to cut corporate taxes will benefit everyone. Point out that business taxes are be paid by the customers, the employees, and the shareholders. Tell people that higher taxes on businesses are forcing their jobs overseas, forcing the cost of the goods they buy to climb, and hurting the value of their 401'ks."

That point it totally lost on the average American. Joe Sixpack sees raising corporate taxes as a way to punish the rich. "we need to punish those oil execs who are raking in billions while we struggle to feed our families."

McCain needs to really explain how corporate taxes directly affect an American company's ability to compete in a global market, and therefore directly affects the safety of American jobs.

This debate is McCain's last chance and he better go down swinging or people won't even bother to go to the polls to support him.

TheBulldog said...

I hope people show up to vote regardless. The media is definitely trying to supress the republican turnout. Overall I think McCain did OK in the debate, not as forceful as I would have liked, but better than the wimpy town hall performance.