What Are McCain's Biggest Perceived STRENGTHS That Obama Should Exploit?

[KittyWampus]

[Olney Blue]

1. Does not compute.

[FreakinDJ]

2. His Lies

[OneGrassRoot]

3. Military experience, though not sure how one exploits that...other than McCain, of course. n/t

[rocktivity]

4. That he has none.

But seriously, folks, all Obama and Biden have to do is strangle them with their own rhetoric and pound them with the facts. MCain will be King George The Third--yet another partisan puppet with deteriorating management and social skills.

[doublethink]

5. STRENGTHS? You're kidding right ??

did you forget this ...

[doublethink]

6. Okay now you've edited your post to 'Perceived STRENGTHS'

And you still forget the tag.

[ginnyinWI]

7. Long years in Washington, aka "experience".

He should continually question McCain's judgement, and make the point that experience does not equal wisdom.

I see them doing this--they should keep it up. Once his "experience" is gone--what's left? He has little charisma, isn't a good speaker, is not forward looking with any vision or plan.

[Graybeard]

8. He can lie with a straight face and without shame.

Last week Rachel Maddow played the McNuts lies...and called them lies! It's time for Obama to do the same.

[mwb970]

9. He was a POW.

Hadn't you heard?

[LSparkle]

10. "Support" for veterans ... which is a TOTAL LIE

I could swear I heard that some veterans' organization
gave him a 20% rating as far as his votes for their
issues (might have even been lower). He has this
PERSONA that doesn't match the reality, especiallly on
these issues.

[slinkerwink]

11. Attack him on his veterans record---lack of support for the GI bill.

"John McCain likes to talk about service, but he doesn't honor the service of others---he voted against the GI bill for veterans coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan.

The GI Bill would have given these brave men and women a chance to go to college, and benefits to help them.

McCain voted against that.

He's just more of the same."

[VolcanoJen]

12. Experience.

John McCain is very experienced. He's had several decades now to "reform" Washington, most of it under Republican Presidents and Republican Congresses.

McCain has a lot of experience talking about reform. McCain has a lot of experience claiming to be a maverick.

[slinkerwink]

13. Attack him on women's issues.

Attack him through Sarah Palin.

Alaska is #1 in the country in terms of rapes.

Sarah cut funding for the only home for teenage moms in Alaska.

Her town, Wasilla, was the ONLY town in Alaska to force sexual assault victims to pay for the testing of their rapists.

McCain voted against the Violence Against Women Act, which Biden authored.

[slinkerwink]

14. Attack him on experience.

John McCain sure has experience in Washington.

Of voting against women's issues.

Voting against minimum wage 14 times.

Voting against renewable energy.

Voting against withdrawal dates for our troops.

Voting against a ban on torture.

Supporting George Bush 90% of the time, and being proud of it.

[Matariki]

15. For those who aren't getting Cryingshame's reference:

It's referring to a quote from Karl Rove about attacking an opponents strengths, because voters already can perceive their weaknesses. The gist of it is essentially: "Identify your opponent's strength, and attack it so relentlessly that it becomes a liability."

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. His Only Strength Is That He Was A POW

How do we attack that?

The Republicants pulled a somewhat similar hat trick on John Kerry but I don't know if we could pull it off against McCane; moral reservations notwithstanding...

[FrenchieCat]

16. his biggest strength is that

HE THINKS THAT WE ARE STUPID.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

17. the GOP thinks his strengths lie in his military experience