drip,drip,drip

[Michael Tee]

<<The Keating 5 begat McCain Feingold. Which should make McCain look good to the MoveOn Soros crowd since that empowered them.>>

I said from the outset that the Keating Five thing would work for Obama only if it were correctly handled.  Ideally, plant the concept that the victims are as much victims of John McCain as they are of Charles Keating.  The focus has to remain on McCain's sleazy antics promoting Keating's fraud and on the financial ruin of the victims.  Keep hammering on the misconduct and the victims, and keep the focus off McCain-Feingold, so that only McCain supporters pull it out, and then it looks like damage control, a slick PR move by McCain and his billion-dollar Republican handlers after he was already busted. 

I think Obama's got himself a winner with that if he handles it right.

[Amianthus]

And, like I said, I would say that McCain was duped by the other four - Democrats all. Him being a junior Senator at the time, after all.

[Michael Tee]

Fine, go with that.  "I was just a helpless dupe."  Sounds good.  And Obama will go with the criminal fraud, the government regulators' attempts to stop it, and McCain's valiant attempts to keep the scam going as long as he could.  Interspersed with interviews with the pathetic mom-and-pop victims of the scam, who lost their heard-earned life savings while McCain and his buddy Keating just got richer and fatter and fatter and richer as these good souls were stripped of everything they had worked for and earned.  Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.  I love the idea that McCain will try to blame his misconduct on the other four Democratic K5s - - none of whom happen to be asking for anyone's vote at the present time.

Believe me, Ami, this thing is a godsend if properly handled.

[Amianthus]

Fine, go with that.  "I was just a helpless dupe."  Sounds good.

Nah, more like "I was a junior Senator led astray by senior Democrats who gave me bad advice. However, I learned my lesson and co-wrote the McCain-Feingold legislation to prevent this sort of thing."

[Michael Tee]

Exactly.  Translates into "helpless dupe."  Blame it on others.  The Democrats made me do it.  I love the whole thing.  Obama keeps concentrating on McCain's misdeeds on behalf of the criminal fraud Keating, and on the sad and sorry plight of the all-American victims of the scam, and McCain keeps bleating, "But it wasn't me!  The Democrats made me do it!"

This oughtta be good.

McCain-Feingold, BTW, will be sloughed off as BRILLIANT PR and about the only thing a crooked Senator could do, after he was busted.  REALLY slick.

[Plane]

It'll make that Rezko thing vanish into the stratosphere.

Doubtful. Obama still lives in the house of questionable purchase. Circumstances are similar to Randall Cunningham. Certainly a favorite whipping boy of the left.

The Keating 5 begat McCain Feingold. Which should make McCain look good to the MoveOn Soros crowd since that empowered them.

They both have problems.

The VP choice looms large.

Is Dan Quaile busy?

[Michael Tee]

Dan Who?

[Xavier_Onassis]

Dan who?

Dan Quayle was Olebush's vice-president.  Olebush lost to Clinton in 1992, and in 1996, qqQuayle thought he should get the nomination. But Bob Dole was the designated GOP leader at the time and Quayle, who was a rather well known dummy, was ignored. He seems to have fallen into oblivion.

[Michael Tee]

That was a joke, XO.  I know who Dan Quayle is.