How do feel about MCcain's and Palin's message of reform? What effect will it have on independent voters?

Question

I am very excited about the hope and experience this team is going to be able to offer our country.

Answer 1

I was undecided until I saw the speeches, totally non-partisan, but now.....not voting for the McBush team, no way.  Might do a write-in.  I know many other undecideds who were totally turned-off by those two, also.  

Answer 2

Thank God. Two people who are not afraid to take on the Good Ole Boys in Washington that sit there for years and drain the American people while filling their pockets.

Answer 3

What 'reform' ? You meant Obama's change ?

Answer 4

I do not think the independent voters are prepared to go to the far far right and support a BIBLE COUNTRY.  

Answer 5

I feel good. Altho' the basic planks of each parties platform seem to be the same as usual, Palin & then McCain's speeches have convinced me they will do differently.

I know few will agree with e, but I know that Palin & McCain are seriously concerned for the country & are vying for the positions of president & VP to do a job, not for personal aggrandisement.

Answer 6

Yeahh..ok McCain has voted with Bush 90% of the Item and Karl Rove (Bush's Brain) who picked Bush's cabinet is picking McCain's, he picked Palin for him. So If you vote with somebody 90% of the time, and have the same person putting the same people in office - how are you going to get change and a different outcome than before?

Answer 7

Reform! Isn't reform another word for CHANGE? And don't grt me started on the hope.  

Answer 8

If anyone thinks about it, the ony candidates who have a record of real change and real reform are McCain and Palin.  Both have gone against their own party to do what is right.

Pundits complain that they want to hear specific policies and what the candidates specifically plan to do.  But that demonstrates complete and total ignorance of our Constitution.  The President can actually DO very little.  CONGRESS does everything, the President only sets the tone and approves their actions and initiatives by signing on or disapproves their actions by vetoing.  THAT'S IT.  PERIOD.

Barack Obama can promise that every family will get a million dollars and "if you buy my twelve DVD program, you can so much money", and that he will solve all the world's woes just by his magical presence, but he can deliver none of those things unless Congress decides to do it first.

And as a naive newbie, Obama will become a puppet to Nancy Pelosi to Harry Reid.  If he wants to deliver on ANY single promise, they will tell him how it's going to work, and what he will need to do for them.

McCain and Palin will be the exact opposite.  They will be fighting head to head with Congress.  Pelosi and Reid will know THEY have to bend or nothing will get passed.  Our country will work as it was designed, with checks and balances against power from both sides.

Independent voters have been looking for a true candidate of change.  Obama's message struck a chord at first... but I think he showed his true colors by his selection of hardened Washington insiders as his cabinet advisory team and an absolutely entrenched Washington insider as a running mate.  Independents are starting to realize that he's not really about change after all, and that, if anything, his administration would be an absolute mirror image of the Congress that is currently at a 9% and less popularity... even less than Bush!

McCain and Palin have a record of actually fighting for change.

But Obama still has 60 days to prove that he can challenge the status quo in Congress.  If he leads a fight to open Anwar, for example, it will prove that he is ready to actually do something.  He needs to do something that Pelosi and Reid have been against doing, and force it through, with his name on it.  That will put deeds behind the talk.

Until then, it's just hot air.

Answer 9

As an independent voter, I liked their message of reform and respect their record of service to this country.  I think what struck me the most about McCain last night is that he is far more likely to confront the Republicans in Congress than Obama will be with the Democrats.  That McCain is his own man - even in his speech he managed to chide the Republican Party for losing the trust of the American People - and Obama strikes me as someone who will be very indebted to the power brokers in his own party; will be beholden to all the traditional Democratic Party special interests groups - and will basically be co-governing the country with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.

It is ironic that Obama has run on change - but I think the real change will come from McCain.

Answer 10

It took spine for McCain to bash the Republicans. I give him credit for that.