OK, McCain, time to find the pair you lost sometime between the convention and now.  MSNBC reports a quick turn-around after McCain was the Maverick for a moment when he said, “After I whip his you know what in this debate, we’re going to be going out 24/7!” He was speaking to some supporters in campaign offices in Virginia.

After he realized that someone was going to call him racist for saying he was going to “whip” Obama, he backed off and became McSquish and blah-blahed about respecting Obama. 

Ugh!  Sen. McCain, don’t you realize you can’t win for losing?  Don’t you realize that each time these cries of racism happen for dumber and dumber reasons it benefits you and makes them look bad?  Americans DO NOT want to be called racist for four years especially for using common terms like “whip his you know what.”  Don’t be afraid!!  Let them come after you!  Tamp down idiots who cry “kill him” or “terrorist” if you wish, but don’t be afraid to be called racist if your arguments or phrases are clearly not!  LET IT HAPPEN!  SHOW THEM FOR WHO THEY ARE!!  AMERICANS ARE SICK AND TIRED OF BEING CALLED RACIST FOR POINTING OUT FACTS!

We have just over three weeks to go.  Find that man who wouldn’t give up in the POW camp.  If a supporter tells you he is angry and wants you to fight for him, bring out that man who gave the “Fight with me!” speech at the convention.  Find him.  Channel him.  Become the McMaverick again!

I guess Obama can now say he won’t sit down for talks with Iran, since Iran decided to set a couple of preconditions.  Obama will only talk to them without preconditions.

H/T: Hot Air

Wow, a couple of possibly juicy tidbits are floating around in cyberspace.  I’m not saying they’re true, but two prominent blogs seem to be dangling them out there.

First, several are writing that someone, possibly Ben Smith at Politico, that there is some sort of proof of the closeness of Obama and Ayers.  Rumor is that Ayers possibly watched Obama’s kids at some point.  Now I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t let “just a person from the neighborhood” watch my child.  Michelle doesn’t strike me as that sort of mother, either.  It seems like the reporter might have one source and is looking for another.

Second, rumors of some sort of “close female associate” of Obama’s was whisked away to the Caribbean a while ago and has had her bills paid by some third person a la John Edwards - Reille Hunter – Fred Baron.  Ace linked to the story thinking it was some sort of joke, trying to counteract the fake Palin transcript.  I guess he was contacted and given a LOT of details that showed the story was true.  Ace eventually pulled the post because a commenter kept posting her name after Ace told him / her not to.  Here’s a link to the archive of the post, but I’m not sure how long it will work.  Sounds juicy if it’s as deep as Ace intimates.

Wonder how this will be called racist?

Update: Smith seeminly admits that he’s sitting on something, but denies it’s the story being discussed.

Update II: Haha.  Ace calls Smith OUT!  Twice!

Update III: Newsbusters calls out the MSM and does a good summary piece on the female associate rumors.

David Freddoso wrote an article suggesting that if the Republicans had nominated a “true conservative,” we might have a chance right now.  I think HE’S wrong.

Let’s look at the choices we had at the time.  I have actually come to like Romney, Giuliani and Huckabee much more since the primaries have ended, but that doesn’t change their records. 

Mitt Romney was touted as the “true conservative.”  I’m not sure why that was the case, because this guy was governor of Massachusetts.  Massachusetts?  Conservative?  Nope, not a chance.  People like Hannity would say he was conservative, but he had to change his positions to run for governor of Mass.  Hannity assured listeners that Romney’s current views were his real views, then he would turn around and call Obama a flip-flopper.  I’m sorry, bur Romney just moved to the right to make it through the primaries, thinking, as many do, that the redder he was the more votes he’d get.  We were smarter than that this time.

Rudy Giuliani did a GREAT job during 9/11, but that was about the only thing I admired about him.  Most of his positions were way out of touch with mine, and his personal history was very troubling.  I’m VERY glad he got no traction.

Mike Huckabee was also touted as a conservative.  Yes, he was very socially conservative, but his record in Arkansas showed otherwise.  His race for lieutenant governor was run by Dick Morris, then fresh off the Clinton train.  He ran Huckabee as a moderate in order to gain traction.  As governor, he increased sales and gasoline taxes and also pushed for more bond programs, bigger health care programs, and a Robin Hood-type school funding program.  Some say he reduced spending, but there was a budget shortfall during his term, so spending wasn’t reduced by much in the face of those tax increases.  I’m boggled by his anti-bailout stance now, but maybe he’s setting himself up for a 2012 run against a country SICK of the extreme liberalization of the country under Obama, Pelosi, and Reid.

Then, we had John McCain.  Well known, well tested, and he didn’t mind taking positions contrary to the party.  Yes, he did oppose his own votes on immigration and the Bush tax cuts during the primaries.  But, I think he was careful to only discuss things in those bills that he would agree with conservatives (building the wall and too much spending) while he just didn’t talk about his amnesty plan and how he thought the tax cuts were too big. 

Freddoso argues that a true conservative would have stood up to the bailout.  I’m not sure that Romney or Huckabee would have stood up to it.  I know Huckabee has now, but what if his campaign was on the line at the time with the DOW plunging after the bill failed the first time.  I don’t think Romney would have had the fortitude, either.

McCain was the only candidate who could actually win the general election.  There was NO way the sheeple in this country were going to vote for a “conservative” because Bush was seen as dividing this country, and he was conservative.  McCain could tout his true bipartisan record.  He was till way more conservative than the Democratic nominee choices, and he was more conservative fiscally than most Republicans in Congress who saw the Iraq war as a way to push pet project spending through that wouldn’t get noticed because of the focus on the war.

McCain still has a chance if he just gets back on message.  Obama sounds like he’s starting to whine and call McCain racist, and that will be a big mistake.  If McCain can get his economic policy focused and together (that proposed rule suspension for seniors with 401Ks was so GENIUS that even Obama had to give him props), he can squeak this thing out.

Look, there are left-wing nuts and right-wing nuts.  The left-wing nuts have a LOT of influence over the Democratic party.  The Republican party has done a decent job of tamping down the crazies that might identify with it.  However, this stupid “Obama isn’t a citizen” stuff has to stop.  It makes conservatives look STUPID. Ed Morrissey has a great article on this here.

I know people who used to send me dumb stuff like Obama PhotoShopped on top of a camel going through McDonald’s when the muslim rumors were circulating.  I told them the same thing — this kind of garbage makes conservatives look desperate and hate-filled.  There were SO many things that we could legitimately hit Obama with, such as his stance on the war or his liberal voting record. 

We don’t have too long to go, and we have to stop trying to make things stick to the Teflon ‘Bam.  Nail him with the Fannie / Freddie stuff.  He’s SUCCEEDING tying McCain to lobbyists from them when he was the one taking the money.  Turn it around!  We don’t have much time!

Update: Ace has had it with the wingnuts, too.

Over the last few weeks, Republicans have been accused of using “code words” to inject racism into this race without being overt (“hockey mom,” “that one,” among others). 

So, what is Obama doing with “hoodwinked” and “bamboozled?”  According to a story at Hot Air, those are well-known code words to call covertly call Caucasians racist.  Read through the links in the story and watch the video there. 

I’ll add this one to my racism list.