Nutroots go for the ‘Old and Unstable’ McCain Google Bomb
By 186 on Mar 22, 2008
The reality based community that is always claiming the intellectual high ground decides not to go after John McCain on the issues but instead choose to smear him as “Old and Unstable”.
Yes the nutroots are getting worried and desperate so it’s time to light the fuse on the ole’ Google Bomb!
From MYDD
It appears increasingly likely that the primary season will go all the way to the convention in late August (which, if history is any guide, will be really bad), leaving the Democratic party a scant two and a half months to go full-out hammering away at John McCain and the Republican party. Perhaps it’s time to start redirecting our attention.
While the outcome of the primary is important, and there are real differences between Obama and Clinton, I’d like to see Democrats coming out hard against McCain. We’ve got money, media, and the Internet on our side (sometimes), so let’s not use all of our firepower shooting at each other.
With that in mind, what kinds of attacks might work against John McCain? With only a short period of time between the end of the convention and Election Day, Democrats won’t have the luxury of trying out many lines of attack and seeing what sticks - as they have been able to do during the primary. It is important that we are ready to go after McCain full-tilt on August 29th, and that we’re going to battle with the right ammunition.
A few various lines of attack have been floating around the media and blogosphere lately. As a quick sample, here are a few:
* John McCain as old and unstable
* John McCain as angry, with a temper, a hothead
* John McCain as a war hawk who’ll keep us in Iraq forever
* John McCain as confused and unprepared (can’t tell the difference between Iran and Al-Qaeda for instance)
* John McCain as weak and unprepared on economic issues
* John McCain and his association with radical fundamentalist pastors like John Hagee
* John McCain as a flip-flopper or selloutMy personal favorites are McCain as old and unstable, a war hawk, and weak on the economy. But will these attacks stick?
Some background on the nutroots and their Google bombing.
NY Times on nutroots google bombing;
The practice of “Google-bombing” - or gaming the search-engine’s ranking algorithms, say, by flooding the Web with links and sites of a certain flavor, so that certain keywords will push certain returns to the top of the heap - has typically been met by the company with grim forebearance.
And why not? Until recently, the practice has mostly involved silly kid’s stuff: Google “miserable failure” and the number one result is the official Web site of President Bush. Ha ha! So funny!!
