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Which Ticket Really Will Deliver Change
Voters Want?
Morton Kondracke 9/4/2008
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The man without a party, Sen. Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., came to the Republican National Convention and raised perhaps the key issue of the 2008 campaign when he declared "the McCain/Palin ticket is the real ticket for change this year."

"Change" is the key on two levels, the purely political and the real world. Who is seen as the "change agent" of 2008, and who can actually deliver the changes America needs to meet 21st-century competitive challenges?

Politically, Sen. Barack Obama has made change the touchstone of his entire campaign, and last week's Democratic National Convention was devoted at least as much to painting presumptive presidential nominee Sen. John McCain as "more of the same" and "George Bush's third term" as to extolling the virtues of Obama and his agenda.

President Bush's approval ratings currently average 30 percent, according to RealClearPolitics, and 75 percent of voters think that the country is on the wrong track. Voters clearly want something different.

Before the Denver convention, according to the Gallup Poll, 66 percent of voters were either "very" or "somewhat" concerned that McCain would continue Bush policies. Afterward, 64 percent were -- although the number of "very concerned" went up from 41 percent to 47 percent.

On Tuesday night in St. Paul, Minn., no
speaker directly rebutted that impression, emphasizing instead McCain's record as a "restless reformer" and "maverick" who could accomplish the change of fighting special interests in Washington and ending partisan gridlock.

Off the convention floor, at a breakfast with reporters, the McCain campaign's policy director, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, cited global warming, "spending restraint" and early attention to housing assistance and health care reform as examples of McCain's differences from Bush.

But, as Democrats emphasized repeatedly, McCain has adopted Bush's tax policy and the supply-side economics underlying it. While McCain presciently criticized Bush's early Iraq strategy, their foreign policies are essentially the same.

And now, McCain has branded himself indelibly as a cultural conservative like Bush by naming Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) as his running mate.

McCain personally preferred Lieberman and also considered former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge (R), but he balked after being warned that a pro-choice selection might produce open revolt at this convention.

So he yielded to the right, picking a candidate that warmed the hearts of James Dobson, Rush Limbaugh, Pat Buchanan and the rest of the pro-life, pro-gun, anti-gay, anti-stem cell, abstinence-only, creationist right.

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A brand new future
By Olle Johansson - Sweden * Posted 8/28/2008 12:00:00 AM
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Posted By: John Handforth  on Friday, September 05, 2008

Change?

The only change that I see coming, if Obama is elected, is Obama's hand coming out of my pocket, and going into his, with the last remnant of my Social Security.

No one would consider me one of the "rich" that he wants to tax, but we don't need a Chicago on a National scale.

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