McCain Campaign Offers Rewards For Turn-Key Comments

According to a story at the Washington Post, John McCain's presidential campaign is offering more than moral suasion to fire people up for a McCain presidency; they're also offering ready-made snippets of rhetoric for interested supporters to supply under their own names in public comments to online news sources and forums. Such pre-written commentary by itself is neither new nor necessarily nefarious, but it seems a bit off-kilter that prolific commenters are eligible for rewards — not just campaign swag like hats and stickers, but higher-ticket items like a ride with McCain on his campaign bus. Probably a script could be whipped up to compare the canned suggestions on the site with "grassroots" comments on political news sites around the web.

Comments

Wow!

[Reverend Darkness]

... because we all know no Democrat would EVAH do such a thing! ( casting my "+2 Rolled Eyes of Sarcasm" )

not THAT bad

[ILuvRamen]

This is still better than people left to their own BS, which as we now know is posting/e-mailing that Obama is a muslim and Michelle called Rick Astley "whitey" (hehehe I may have that a little wrong) and all that other made up BS about Obama. I'd rather have cookie cutter, slightly more true BS floating around. Btw I'm independent and hate Obama a lot and McCain almost as much so yes, this post was sort of unbiased.

Republicans know how to win.

[LibertineR]

Say what you will about them, scream bloody murder at their tactics, more often than not, when Republicans want to win a big election, they usually do. Obama has lost momentum, Hillary still has her delegates, and what is Obama doing?

A Hawaiian vacation, bitches!

McCain put out a devastating ad today, quoting only famous Democrats saying good things about him.

Come November, it will probably be McCain taking the oath, and Democrats again, yelling SHENANIGANS from the bleachers.

Here's a news flash

[DragonTHC]

Buying votes is unethical. Anyone who still wants to vote for McCain, after knowing he's doing this is not a freedom loving American.

Go back to your compound and mix up the koolaid you toothless rednecks.

Re:This is going to end badly

[shokk]

NO! Get on board man! Obama's message of "change for the sake of random change" is right on! He's going to make a d20 roll against reality and hope his shit comes up roses. Why bother with details, we'll just blame our credit issues on the gummint and maybe we'll ALL be a welfare check away from salvation!

Re:This is going to end badly

[Doc Ruby]

"The Democratic one [voter survey] is just as bad".

So I asked for a link to that Democratic voter survey.

I never got one.

But a bunch of Republican TrollMods modded me down for asking.

And now you, a Republican liar, talk some nonsense about a "strawman" argument. And say that the mods are some how "Democrats", when they're just simply capable of basic logical thought.

You Republicans have given up even claims to basic bran activity. You're the Terry Schiavo Party. After this cretinous election campaign you'll run on nothing but terror and lies, you'll barely be human. Looks like WcCain is just doing the best he can with what he's got: he's going to war with the supporters he has, not the supporters he wishes he has.

Yes, this is going to end badly. For Republicans like you. Why not? You've ended America badly for everyone else.

Re:Obama is smart enough to not tell the truth..

[mvdwege]

Maybe this is because some problems are quite simply not urgent, and making sure they have the same response time as urgent problems would cost an inordinate amount of money.

Politicians in the Netherlands also like to make a talking point about waiting lists in order to further demolish our health care system. Guess what? Most of the waiting lists they whine about are for non-life-threatening ailments.

You guys that whine about a few months of waiting remind me of the middle managers who want their mailbox quota increased ASAP, and their request treated like a priority-1 incident, instead of just moving their email to an off-line location. You're both lusers.

Mart