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.
Maybe it was your timing - when everyone is on edge and sees the opposition - rightly - as evil, the time to criticize the “good guys” would be after the election - after would be a great time to say “I could’ve told you” but during the fray, not good timing. Ask Noonan, Parker, Will, Krauthammer, ad nauseum...
Only partly so. He had "help" on that score, courtesy of Benjamin Bernanke and that cabal of "useless eaters" called the Federal Reserve, who just *had* to have their 700 billion dollar bailout 6 weeks before a Presidential election. Why didn't they make their demand in the spring, when anyone who was keeping an eye on the subprime mortgage mess knew that such an action would be necessary, or failing that, at least have to common courtesy to wait until *after* the election to demand it?
The answer is simple. Up until that point McCain, for all that I never liked him, was running a competitive race, and could conceivably have pulled off an upset win. This did not sit well the the bankers of the fed, so they made their move, ensuring McCain's defeat. And just like the last time the fed moved to alter the course of events in this country to enact their own agenda of one-world-government, it will be 80 years before we get the truth out them, if we ever do.
Was McCain a less than perfect candidate for us? Yes, you bet. Was he often his own worst enemy, as far as we were concerned? Again, you better believe it! But, *was* there another force at work here, in this strangest of election cycles this country has ever seen? There certainly was, and that force was the fed, who were playing politics, banana-republic style, quite brazenly, and for their own ends.
Why the push? In retrospect it becomes clear. Given the choice of an inexperienced, not too bright neophyte, who copuld easily be manipulated, and a savvy politico with the reputation of being a maverick, who would you want to deal with to establish your ultimate goal? I should think the answer would be quite obvious to anyone of even close to normal intelligence. They acted openly, I believe, because *if* they are successful, then this will be the *last* US Presidential election to be held...
the infowarrior
The Democrats will carry (moving roughly from west to east) Hawaii, California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Delaware, Maryland, Rhode Island, Virginia, the District of Columbia and Florida. It’s also possible North Carolina and Louisiana will go to the democrats.