From check to checkmate: Obama’s winning strategy.

All those stories about the Dems being suddenly outmaneuvered and scratching their heads have to end – it is time to refocus. Presented below is the simple chess move that will decisively win Obama the election. If you agree, please copy, paste, post, spread the word and even pass it on to someone in the Obama camp if you possibly can!! The stakes are too high, and the thought of getting that 3am call that McCain has won the election is just too frightening:

The strategy:

Don’t try to refute and in fact actually acknowledge that McCain and Palin are “mavericks” – then, make “maverick” equal “dangerous” and “unsafe” and make “maverick” equal “more of the same.” Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Aschcroft, Wolfowitz, Gonzales etc. were all mavericks - and look what happened! All that maverick behavior soon led to corruption, deception, mismanagement, damaged relationships across the world, a weakened America etc. etc…:

“Can we really afford four more years of maverick? Barack Obama: real leadership.”

Why it will work:

Firstly, you don’t win campaigns by just trying to refute the opposition’s attacks - you have to boldly set the agenda and this does just that. The Reps took Obama’s popularity and tried to turn it against him - i.e. “Moses” “The One.” But they themselves are banking literally everything on this maverick brand (both for McCain and Palin) - that is all they have and that is actually their greatest weakness – don’t run from it, tackle it! By challenging the maverick premise head-on and changing the meaning of “maverick” into something unstable and unsafe you will redefine their own message and use it against them. They will either have to stop using “maverick” and focus on the issues (which means they lose) or keep using it and dig themselves into a hole whereby people come to see that they really don’t want another maverick administration.

“Enough!”

You will have to push it hard and over and over again, but it really is that simple.

“Hasn’t America had enough of maverick?”

Clip of Bush: “Bring ‘em on!” Clip of Gonzales: “I don’t recall.” Clip of Rumsfeld: “Heenie-peenie pie in the sky!”

“Barack Obama: leadership that restores America.”

Other advantages:

-It is not sniping or petty, so Senator Obama can uphold his “new kind of campaign” ethos.

-The McCain camp is instantly on the defensive and that is where you want them.
-It is not trying to tear down Palin (which won’t work and may backfire), but rather just grouping both McCain and Palin with the other dangerous mavericks like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld etc. Add to this McCain’s famously bad temperament and you have all the material you need.

-It is new, but keeps in tune with your prior messages (so you won’t look like you are desperately shifting strategy) of tying McCain to Bush and presenting him as more of the same. That message ran its course and lost its power, this will give it a whole new jolt of life.

- It is bold, audacious and headline grabbing - very un-Gore/Kerry.

-Most importantly it will work because most voters don’t want more Bush and don’t want more Republican leadership. This presents a crystal clear message that if executed strongly will shift opinion back towards Obama as something new; as a real agent of change; as a new kind of leader. That is what his supporters already believe, and it is time to make that message loud and clear.

Hillary has allways been the strong and right one. Obama as the weakest one was selected by the good old boys and girls of the DNC because they thought he would be their puppet.Hillary won even with all the cheating Obama did in the polls and caucusus. Hillary will be back but as we have no party anymore i and all my familt and freinds will be voting for Mccain/Palin

GMT: The only difference between Hillary and Obimbo is race and gender? What a joke…the main difference is that he is a fraud! That is more than enough to vote McCain/Palin.

Let me start with the fact, I have always voted.
This year, I will not vote for the lesser of two evils.
If Hillary isn’t running, I won’t vote!!

For those wondering how former Clinton supporters could vote McCain, it’s called a Protest Vote. You can read about it on the PUMApac website. I’m a lifelong Democrat & former precinct worker, while personally I could not cast a vote for McCain I DO like Palin’s spunk and am NOT voting for Obama. All PUMA’s have different reasons, these are mine: can’t overlook Rezko ties, can’t overlook racist pastor(s) & black theology background, can’t overlook how sexism played out in the Obama camp & msm, can’t overlook his voting for FISA! EVEN IF I could, after going to Denver and seeing firsthand the delegate intimidation and hearing first hand about the Caucus Fraud, I could never cast my vote for a candidate who engaged in Fraud to narrowly steal the nomination from the more qualified candidate. There. I hope people aren’t saying “it’s unbelievable to me” anymore!

For all those that say they were former Hillary supporters and are now Macain/Palin supporters, I’m sorry but I’m taking it for granted that you are just Republican comment trolls.

I would find it very surprising and sad that someone would now support a party that is the opposite of everything Hillary Clinton represents simply out of spite.

What sorry shape the US will be in if a party is elected based on these non-issues they keep trying to muddy the waters with. Lord help the republicans if it ever gets back to issues.

You know, little things like the economy, the war, nuclear treaties, the climate, etc

Obama picked Biden because they will work together well and Biden brings amazing national security and foreign affairs knowledge and experience to the team. The biggest obstacle to picking Hillary was not Hillary but Bill. He has had a lot of business dealings that involve “interesting” parties to foreign governments and businessmen. He also does not do well sitting in the back seat - he likes to drive the situation and that doesn’t work well when you are not the president. Vetting Bill Clinton would also be a royal headache. The scandals from the past would all be brought to the forefront, as well as possible new ones as yet undisclosed. Hillary probably realizes these obstacles were in place and would pose more of a problem for Obama than would be good for the campaign and the Democrats fight for the White House. I am confident that Obama will offer Hillary an important position in his administration when he is elected.

Some call him maverick, I think “scary as hell” is more appropriate. He got on the change bandwagon like last week, someone must have told him that things really aren’t going well for the nations majority of people he is out of touch with. The only change I see with McCain is a more aggressive military style. He should be put in a nursing home, and not in charge of our country. He doesn’t want to build American, he wants to play an old mans game of chess with the world using our military. The problem is his global game of chess has drastically changed since he last played as a pon in Vietnam. Their intelligence is evident by their half-witted and fearless comments regarding taking a tough stance with Russia and Iran. With nuclear missles that will wipe out the whole f’n world, Johnny Cowboy and Palin still want to run our county the old way. Push and shove, arrogant and ignorant. He should go play tough guy in a nursing home, where he can hold the button that calls his nurse to change his diaper. Just keep him away from that presidency and the code to arm nuclear weapons, because he will hit the button.

It’s unbelievable to me that anyone who supported Hilary can now support McCain/Palin - they could not be more different. If it were someone I knew, I’d question them about racism - the only real difference between most of Hilary’s positions and Obama’s is his race and her gender. Otherwise, they hold the same things dear - a woman’s right to decide what to do with her body, equal taxation instead of the rich getting breaks that everyone else pays for, keeping jobs in America instead of sending them overseas, taking care of those less fortunate, really improving education and health care for everyone, not just the rich. I truly don’t understand how anyone who supported Hilary can now support a team that is so much like Bush and Cheney that it gives me nightmares - look what they have done to this country!

I just can’t believe it! I know Hillary is campaigning for him, but I am with Pat… her heart is just not in it. I wish she would DUMP the party, and go on the ballot as an independent. I can’t stomach Obama or Biden. And to think McCain & Paulin is the alternative is not any more comforting. Why does it always seem to come down to “the lesser of 2 evils”… Why can’t we end up with someone we are passionate about and who can and WILL get the job done.

Hillary- I know you are the RIGHT person for the job… man or woman… You have what it takes to get things back on track. Unfortunately, it seems we are going to have to suffer through another 4 years of stupidity and God only knows what else before you have another shot at getting things moving in the right direction. Plesae do not abandon your plight. We need you.