Posted on 11/07/2008 6:16:43 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The trouble with people like McCain is, they spend a decade trashing the conservative base, ridiculing conservatives, spitting in the face of conservatives, ignoring or going against the desires of conservatives (amnesty, McCain-Feingold, gang of 14 etc), then he turns round and expects the same conservatives he’s been abusing to vote for him.
In a way McCain deserved every bit of the whipping he took from the MSM. After all, the same McCain had spent the last 8 years, playing up to the MSM, and using the MSM to undermine the Republican Party, conservatives, and President Bash at every opportunity he got. In a way its poetic justice. He deserved whatever he got.
Without Gov Palin, and the very horror of an Obambi presidency, there’s no way I’d have voted for this clown.
McCain lost because of McCain.
After two years of BO’s economics and broken promises, the Republican Party (if it can pull itself together)should retake the House of Representatives. That will put a brake on BO’s first and only term.
In the end, I think it was mostly Evangelicals staying home, and maybe the bishops not getting the word out soon enough about abortion being the deal breaker.
McCain really made himself unpopular with the Evangelicals in 2000, and he screwed up again this time, too. He really just doesn’t seem to get it. I was hoping Sarah Palin would be enough to bring them out, but evidently it wasn’t quite enough to counterbalance their distaste for McCain.
The advertisements and 24 hour news channel support put this into motion. A fluctuating society, as we are and should be, is not necessarily a bad thing. A communist leading it is potential disaster.
open *and early primaries in NH and FL sealed the GOP fate.
Six weeks ago when I said McCain's campaign couldn't get him elected in a High School Class officer election I got flamed big time. When I said McCain had problems in Indiana I was told I was just an Obama booster and McCain had Indiana in the bag. McCain did absolutely nothing to win Indiana.
McCain's loss was of his own doings.
“The remaining 60% of the party had sufficient numbers who still didn’t like McCain that they didn’t vote for him.
Non-voting Republicans controlled the outcome”
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You know what’s really funny about all this?
Even at the peak of the campaign, the brain dead McCain was still going flat out for the Latino vote (who were never going to vote for him anyway), with promises of amnesty, instead of wooing the conservative base of the Republican Party, who were not so eager to vote for him.
In the end , Republicans staying home just cost him these elections. Why after all, should they vote for a guy that was STILL promising to screw them up, by granting amnesty to 20 million law breakers, rapists , drug dealers and killers so far as their crimes had not been discovered yet?
Despite all his pandering to LaRaza and other extremist Latino amnesty and open borders fanatics, he got exactly nowhere with those people. Talk about a really stupid guy.
No question about that. McCain is too nice of a guy. When it comes to campaigns, he lives in a fantasy world where neither candidate attacks the other. Each candidate is simply to say why he should win, not why the other should lose. This belief of his is the foundation of McCain-Feingold. McCain never wanted to attack Obama; Obama never had such an inhibition.
With that said, those Conservatives who didn't vote for him for his not being a Conservative were foolish. It's better to have a Center-Left President, than to have a Communist President. Sometimes you have to pick between crappy choices. Not voting is a choice and that choice will give us President Obama on January 20.
Thanks for the link. I’ve read it numerous times but it’s still interesting. George Washington was not known to behave like this.
Wasted?
What better could you have done with it?
Ultimately, those who failed to support real conservatives in the primaries are the ones responsible for the nomination of McCain, and thus his inestimably botched campaign, and thus the loss a few days ago.
After two years of Obama, we will rule the House. I am looking forward to that.
From your PC to God’s ears
No, it wasn't them. I know exactly which Republicans stayed home this election.
The Ron Paul Republicans.
I completely agree - I will NEVER understand this sadistic mentality - why suffer to make a point? Or, why make EVERYONE suffer to make your point...
I completely agree - I will NEVER understand this sadistic mentality - why suffer to make a point? Or, why make EVERYONE suffer to make your point...
I could have voted my conscience and wrote a name in. It would have been no more of a waste than my vote for McCain.
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