Listening In on McCain Campaign Conference Call

Well, I just wasted 15 minutes of my life. I called in to the conference call given by Rick Davis regarding the McCain campaign's questioning of Obama's fund raising in September. Here's the rundown of what Davis hit on.

1.) Question qualifications of donors.

2.) Not reporting on donors that gave less than $200.

3.) Not enough transparency.

4.) Obama never called McCain about taking public financing. Wants public dialog.

5.) Looking for improprieties now instead of later. People in Gaza bought $30,000 worth of t-shirts. ( that money was donated to charity )

6. )Wants all donations publicly searchable.

7.) Says Obama could get largest FEC fine ever.

8.) ACORN, ACORN ACORN

9.) McCain will be audited because of taking FEC funds but lingering questions as to whether Obama will be audited

End of Davis's whining. Next up were 5 questions.All questions asked by trad media and none allowed by anyone else that called in. That's bull. He should take questions from "regular" people since that's their big mantra in the campaign. I used my business identification but to no avail. Questions were asked by Laura of WSJ, Klein of ABC, Jim of AP, Jill of Chicago Trib and J Martin of Politico.

Questions were about the financial mismatch McCain finds himself in, does Obama's fund raising surprise you, they spent $22 million in Sept and how much of that was in conjunction with the RNC so as to stretch the money, why do your internal poll numbers differ from what's been reported and why are you still campaigning in PA., and what is your cash on hand and do you expect any help from outside third party groups that have been dormant.

Basically I heard massive spin: Yes they'd like more money and there must be something sinister about Obama's fund raising, ie., the donors, all McCain has to do to win is win his base, vast majority of September ads were hybrid ads with RNC, we love PA. and don't believe the naysayers and think we will win PA because Clinton beat Obama there in primaries, and no clue on third party groups and wants to know that every one of Obama's donations came from legitimate U.S. groups.

I think they see the handwriting on the wall. McCain couldn't get the numbers of people to donate that Obama did so , of course, question the source. The average small donor to Obama gave $84. Plus donors of less than $200 do not have to be disclosed. Oooo sour grapes. I hate to tell Davis but you can NOT win with just your base. McCain needs independents which he has lost with his erratic and vulgar campaign. Denial is an ugly thing. They're getting slammed even in traditionally red states. I believe he knows exactly what third party groups are up to. Davis has been in politics a long time and he'd have to be totally stupid and clueless to not know. I assume Davis hasn't heard about that Republican that owns YPM getting arrested for voter registration fraud---his own by putting a false address down so he could legally operate in CA. Tsk, tsk, naughty boy. Plus the guy fraudulently got registrations from people by having them sign a so-called petition regarding child molesters. The people found out their party registration was changed, unknown by them, from Democrat to Republican. Davis talked a mile a minute like a man on meth and kept repeating things over and over. So, I learned nothing really except they are looking for any angle to shore up their flailing campaign and I guess insulting small donors is the ticket for today.