What McCain really needs to do is to STOP TRYING TO SOLVE THE CURRENT CRISIS! He’s not president, yet. If he gets elected, he won’t be President unitl 1/20/09. Does anyone honestly believe that any solution he promises now will have any meaning 4 months from now?!? May as well guess which stocks you’ll be buying in 4 months!
He needs to say that this is the current administration’s, and the current Congress’, problem! Anything he does now just gets in the danged way!
The same goes for future policies and promises. Who knows what even the most immediate future brings? We can’t make any policy proposals in this situation. We have no valid information upon which to base our ideas, so it needs to stop.
That means you make it about character, period. Make it clear that any promises made now, during this turmoil, are totally empty, empty, empty! Did I mention empty promises? That means it comes down to whom you trust. Remind them of his servie to his country, and that he’s a hero and a patriot. They don’t hear enough of that in the Rust Belt.
Next, he needs to fulfill his campaign promise of “making people famous”. (Actually, it should be infamous or notorious.) Start now! Call them out. Dodd, Frank, et al. He has to blame the GOP of not trying hard enough to stop it, when he, McCain tried to stop it. There were 3(?) co-sponsors on s190, and McCain talked it up, but got no support. He needs to make the case that he saw it coming and actually tried to stop it! IT IS DEFINITELY NOT HIS FAULT, AND PEOPLE SHOULD QUIT PUNISHING HIM FOR IT IN THE POLLING!
It’s simply not that complicated. Make the issue go away by pointing out that proposals now are meaningless. Make it about character.
