10 Things McCain & Obama Could Do to Win My Vote!©
By “Raising Kane”
[[Editor’s note: “Raising Kane” is the pen name of an actual Gen Y male, with MBA & highly lucrative financial career, who supported Rudy financially & otherwise until he dropped out. He sent me this e-mail with permission to reprint it anonymously. He is currently UNDECIDED as to whom to vote for. An amazing development to him and me!]]
Obama:
10.Talk about one area where you'd cut government spending significantly.
10.Talk about one area where you'd cut government spending significantly.
9. Emphasize that while McCain was marrying into money and sitting around in Washington for year after year, you were working with real people in a real city.
8. What are your thoughts about the Fed. Govt. taking on mortgage risk? ‘Cause if current housing/mortgage trends continue, it's quite possible that 3yrs. from now nobody will be talking about the Social Security/Medicare fiscal crisis in 20yrs; it’ll be about the trillions of rotting mortgage securities that the govt. has/is taking on!
7. The vote to go into Iraq is 5yrs behind us. Right now, given all that's happened, what are your plans? What are the repercussions of pulling out?
6. When Republicans say something stupid, don't get offended or flustered or prissy: mock it. If McCain says your vote against Bush tax cuts was putting ambition ahead of country, laugh and say that must be why McCain voted against them, too!
5. Don't get knocked off stride by McCain jabs. In debates, jab back and watch him get prickly and Dole-like.
4. Emphasize managerial competence. Neither of you have much track record in executive positions beyond your campaigns.
3. Take out the stiletto! [Ed. - a narrow, deadly knife, not a shoe] You're savvy enough to defeat stupid attacks with smart, quick humor. Watch old Giuliani speeches.
2. Repeat again and again that you'll be willing to veto the Democratic congress if they add to the deficit (i.e. prioritize fiscal responsibility).
1. Not pick Hillary as VP! ('Cause if you picks her, the odds of my voting for you drop to less than .001%.)
McCAIN:
10. Stop with the anti-intellectualism. Stop complaining that American students are falling behind the rest of the world, while simultaneously joking about how you were 2nd to last at Annapolis. Intelligence isn't a character flaw.
9. At every campaign stop and in every speech, remind me how Pelosi and Kennedy are running Congress, and how divided govt. works best.
8. So you believe in the Bush tax cuts now. Uh-huh. Convince me. And then, convince me how you'll be able to overcome a (veto proof?) Democratic Congress to hold onto them. Uh-huh...
7. Gas tax holiday? Please. It's embarrassing.
6. “Straight-talk”-up: someone needs to tell Americans to start saving money; that credit card debt eventually has to be paid back; houses are not ATMs. Getting Americans to save will make the economic downturn worse, but make it a lot shorter, too, and be good in the long run.
5. Pick a running mate that I'd be excited about voting for as President in 2012 or 2016. Preferably one that knows how to get on the internet.
4. Emphasize that you'll veto any bill from the Kennedy-Pelosi congress that adds to the deficit. Say that you're, "itching for that fight!"
3. Choose a smart VP who has private sector experience and/or really, really understands macroeconomic issues. The economy is going to be a drag until 2011, at least. Monosyllabic answers like "lower taxes!" or "Drill! Drill! Drill!" are not going to cut the mustard.
2. For goodness sake - stop! STOP! STOP! insisting Obama's votes that you don't agree with show he was "putting ambition ahead of the country." That's a moronic, weak, and despicable tactic. Perhaps the only lower approach would be to say, "Any vote I disagree with shows he's putting Satan's interests first!" It cheapens you.
1. Trick Obama into picking Hillary as VP.
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