This last part is not fair, John McCain’s policies are not just sound bites.
Here are his issues, he goes into plenty of detail on Healthcare and Energy. You and I might not agree with all of his policies, but dismissing his as sound bites is unfair. His energy plan is actually pretty solid and at least he addresses adding more nuclear which most candidates are avoiding talking about. I am not a fan of his Health care plan, but he is a fiscal conservative and his policy is consistent with this position.
Rudy reminds me of Kevin Nealon’s Subliminal Man character on SNL. He finds a way to slip “911” into every sentence. I think he does it when he’s ordering coffee at this point. "Hi nine eleven, I’ll have a vanilla latte nine eleven and one of those biscotti nine eleven. By the way, I was the mayor of New York on 911 nine eleven.
Agreed, that and several other reason have knock Rudy from my first choice to 5th of the candidates. I would vote for Obama, HRC, Richardson & McCain all before Rudy at this point. If he had run as himself instead of pandering to the right, 9/11 Mayor of America, I would still support and still be a Republican. His lack of coherent policies and pandering have lost him one formally loyal supporter.
My Decision came only last week, shortly before the caucus.
Hell, on our side we have casual Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays AND Fridays. And naked Sundays. And cookies. And soda. And potato chips. (We have to have the cookies, soda and potato chips…the medical marijuana gives us the munchies somethin’ fierce…)
I don’t think Guiliani and his people really thought threw how tough a sell this was going to be. They can’t base their whole platform on how well Guiliani did on 9/11 itself - it’s history now. So his campaign has basically been how he’d be a good president to have around if there’s another major terrorist attack. Which is a pretty pessimistic theme to run on - winning campaigns are based on hope not despair.
You may not agree with any of it, but you can’t accuse him of having sound bites for policy. I think he has the most detailed policy proposals of any candidate in the race, doesn’t he?
He’s had those papers trickling out for at least three or four weeks now. However, his web site sucks, so maybe they were there and you couldn’t find them, or maybe they only recently were posted on the web site.
IOW, I did my due diligence with respect to Gramps, having been to his website several times during the fall, quite possibly including early December (I didn’t keep a log, thankyew), and finding only soundbites.
If he realized only a few weeks before the first primaries, when this campaign had been going for about a year, and he’d been officially in the campaign for nearly three months after having been about to declare his candidacy since early summer (remember when he was going to declare on July 4?), that he needed some positions, I’m sorry, but that’s his bad.
His ‘positions’ were soundbites for way too long, way too late in the game.