McCain Giving Points To Supporters To Comment On Blogs

McCain incentivizing supporters to comment on blogs
Politico
John McCain’s campaign is using their campaign website to encourage supporters to post supportive comments on political blogs, including the most well-known liberal site in the blogosphere. And to make things easier, they’re including talking points with which sympathizers can use to get out the McCain message.
“Select from the numerous web, blog and news sites listed here, go there, and make your opinions supporting John McCain known,” instructs the page.
McCain supporters are asked to send the details of their comment to the campaign, which in turn will verify it and then reward the supporter with “points” (assumedly to accumulate for McCain swag)
Among the “featured blogs” currently is Daily Kos, the well-read liberal blog run by Markos Moulitsas that frequently mocks and attacks Republicans such as McCain.
Asked about the effort to gin up online support, McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said, “We absolutely encourage our supporters to engage in this discussion.”
As for the talking points, which currently link over to two recent McCain speeches, Rogers said they were “facts about John McCain and his record.”
As close readers of Politico blogs and others know, Obama dominates both Clinton and McCain when it comes to drawing fervent online support.
UPDATE:
Rogers sends over word that the points system will be larger than mere competing to see who can post the most pro-McCain comments.
“It will help our supporters track and compete against one another for reaching out and making phone calls, sending letters to the editor, signing up friends and other campaign activities,” he says.
From McCain’s website:
Spread The Word

“Help spread the word about John McCain on news and blog sites. Your efforts to help get the message out about John McCain’s policies and plan for the future is one of the most valuable things you can do for this campaign. You know why John McCain should be the next President of the United States and we need you to tell others why.
Select from the numerous web, blog and news sites listed here, go there, and make your opinions supporting John McCain known. Once you’ve commented on a post, video or news story, report the details of your comment by clicking the button below. After your comments are verified, you will be awarded points through the McCain Online Action Center.”

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Wild Thing’s comment……..
I want no part of this, but I wanted to let you know what is going on with McCain’s campaign.
The three blogs mentioned on McCain’s web site are: Redstate, Daily Kos and Jeff Emanuel.
McCain sucks up to the execrable Daily Kos. Suggesting that people post messages supporting McCain on DailyKos is laughable. The poster would get banned or heckled to death, and probably both. What’s even sillier is that you can bet your bottom dollar the Kos people probably already know about this “plan” and will be looking out for it.
What I find funny also is at the site they’re including talking points. I mean if a person has to be told what to say, that is straight out of the Democrat hand book for talking points for political talk shows. We have seen that all the way back to the Clinton’s reign in the White House. Democrats given a set of words, bump key words or phrases to use on all the political talk shows. It got to be so obvious and the democrats still do this talking points thing. LOL
It’s pretty pathetic when a candidate has to reward people for saying nice things about him. Not sure what the points go to maybe a t-shirt. It will probably have “Viva La Raza” printed across the front. Maybe a photo image of his buddy Juan Hernandez .
I wonder if the campaign has really thought this through. This has a high chance of backfiring. The campaign is essentially sending out a bunch of complete amateurs to conduct its web-based PR. What happens when some McCainiac says something way, way, way out of line, then expects the McCain campaign to come through with a T-shirt or coffee mug as a reward? By offering incentives to online posts, the McCain campaign is claiming a form of “ownership” of them. Considering some of the wacky stuff that could get posted, does McCain REALLY want to own other peoples’ heat-of-the-moment, off-the-cuff remarks?
Very dangerous territory for someone who has repeatedly said he wishes to conduct a civil, respectful campaign.