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[Ya-ta Boy]

This being an election year, the Culture War front will be opening soon...probably in the summer. What issues are safe for McCain to raise and which are impossible for him to raise without shooting himself in the foot?

[mistermasan]

he has nothing tolose by hitting hard on illegal immigration from the south. always cheap talking points found there that require no follow up.

castigate the poor. they don't vote and don't put much into PACs.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Pluto]

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[mistermasan]

"culture war" has some huge parameters. lotsa stuff that we should be talking about but won't.

the GOP is gonna try to get the hispanic vote via the religion route but will lose it on labor aspects. the GOP has had no small part in the open border plan but i believe history will show that they are bringing in voters hostile to the GOP cause. that young bush who is half hispanic and speaks fluent spanish will be a good candidate in about 25 years, if there still is a GOP.

age problem? won't be touched. all discussions on senior priviledges lead to social security. won't be broached.

black v. white...is this still a problem? has it finally been cast in the proper light of economic haves vs havenots?

he can't hit too hard on terrorism as that'll evoke too much bush.

he is a tossaway candidate. even knowsit.

[stillnotking]

Gun control is going to be an issue, for the first time in a long time. Obama supported the D.C. gun ban and is the most anti-gun candidate the Democrats have run in the last twenty years.

[catman]

Obama is a false prophet! I expect to hear that one from the religious right at somepoint.

[Ya-ta Boy]

When I say 'Culture War', I mean things like:

a. Prayer in school
b. Flag burning amendment
c. Abortion
d. Sex ed in schools
e. the 10 Commandments on courthouse monuments
f. Gay rights and marriage
g. Public funding of art
h. Gun control
i. PC vocabulary
j. Teaching evolution in school

You know, the kind of issues that can get a rock-ribbed religious conservative wound up into a frothing rage.

[stevemcgarrett]

YaTa Boy conjectured:

[Milwaukiedave]

It's going to be about Wisconsin vs. Oregon....throw those Badgers out of the union!

Just kidding Steve!

[Czarjorge]

McCain is in a tricky position. He's tacked to the right to appease the base and may have to stay there to keep them active and donating. That puts him in place to lose all the indys and Dems that have always liked him and may support him. Someone compared him to Dole, and that seems increasingly accurate.

No one has mentioned the 527s. This is where the culture wars are going to be fought. As much as McCain might have disgust for the 527s on the right he'll use them, and even if he doesn't agree with what they'll do he won't be able to stop them. The 527s on the right will go crazy over the gay issue, they've lost ground in a few states and it rubs them wrong. They're going to try to paint Obama as an uberliberale and use that to bring up prayer, judges/abortion, evolution, etc.

I think a big question is will Obama be forced into accepting public financing? If he does expect a lot of money in the 527s pockets on the left. Move Ons probably praying he takes public funding. The election may work on two fronts, a very pleasant issues related debate between the candidates and a brutal and nasty back and forth between the DNC/RNC and the 527s.

[Ya-ta Boy]