Will 'fire the head of the SEC' be McCain's new 'drill drill drill'?

[Likely Voter]

Over the summer the McCain campaign successfully turned an issue that was not a winner for the republicans 'high gas prices' into a winner with their offshore drilling push. Even though McCain was a recent convert he made it work for him. It was a simple idea that sounded good and made a good chant 'drill drill drill' Regardless of the debate on if it is a good idea, it sounded like a good idea. and 'offshore drilling to lower gas prices' is still a bullet point in his TV ads.

In the last few days the economy and wall street are now the big topics and it is hurting McCain. But again his campaign has cleverly come up with something that sounds good and makes him sound like he 'gets it'

WSJ: McCain Says Cox Should Be Fired As SEC Chief Amid 'Casino' Markets

This 'Bring me the head of Christopher Cox' also has the added bonus of making him sound like he is 'anti bush' by going after Bush's appointee. Again it is highly debatable as to if this will make any difference, but it sure sounds good and makes McCain look like the decisive maverick that he has positioned himself as.

So will this turn things around for McCain and stop the bleeding, or has the "the fundamentals of the economy are strong" thing already sunk in too deep? I think the McCain campaign can at least stop the bleeding.

For the Obama campaign, they need their own simple pandering panacea proposal that can be explained in a 30 second commercial (not the two minute long one they have going now).

[Dan the Roman]

Firing Cox only matters if you replace him with someone better. Last year McCain was whining that Cox was too harsh on finance firms, and the Club for Growth wanted him fired for that reason. Now after Cox has been obstructed in every way in terms of doing his job by the people around McCain, McCain now decides to advocate firing him as a sacrificial lamb.

Yeah in terms of seriousness and integrity this is up there with "Dill, Drill, Drill".

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He'd do no worse then whoever comes next.

[Likely Voter]

not sure McCain will be able to run this is as it turns out the President cannot fire the SEC chief, once appointed and approved by congress he is independent like the Fed.

i guess it is back to the drawing board. But I suspect that the McCain campaign will find some kind of simple 'drill drill drill' thing related to the economy.

if they dont...they are done

[JSojourner]

not sure McCain will be able to run this is as it turns out the President cannot fire the SEC chief, once appointed and approved by congress he is independent like the Fed.

i guess it is back to the drawing board. But I suspect that the McCain campaign will find some kind of simple 'drill drill drill' thing related to the economy.

if they dont...they are done

I'm surprised Senator McCain didn't know the President couldn't fire Cox.

[Likely Voter]

McCain changed thins up on this today (clearly some one told him about the rules) so he called for Cox to step down. Problem is he said "the head of the FEC should step down"

He clearly meant SEC and not FEC, but it is being reported as another gaff. Plus Cox has said he is going to step down in January so this really is not going to be much of a winner for McCain and they have now moved on to trying to tie Obama to the collapse of Fannie Mae. That might work for them, we will see. But blaming Obama for the financial collapse may be a step too far (remember that one ad that seemed to blame Obama for the rise in gas prices). There is only so far you can take these things before even your low info voter is going to go 'huh?'