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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.

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  1. Republicans know how to win. by LibertineR · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    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.

  2. Here's a news flash by DragonTHC · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    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.

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    They're using their grammar skills there.