Posted on 11/06/2008 10:45:00 AM PST by mbraynard
News has been circulating around GOP insiders for weeks that McCain campaign honchos Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt were planning to blame Sarah Palin for McCain’s loss. This was expected to be an effort to punt the blame for their own failures to the side of the ticket that was most popular with the base, attracted the largest rally crowds, and scared the living bejeepers out of the opposing party.
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ATTENTION!
Please, everyone who is as offended by this load of crap as I am, and if you contributed to the McCain Compliance Fund, demand a refund!
I contacted them this morning, expressing my frustration with the latest turn of events, and demanded a full and immediate refund of my $100 contribution. They are providing a refund.
HIT THEM WHERE IT HURTS!
The contact is Susan Nelson, National Finance Director, at snelson@mccain08hq.com.
This is disgraceful and petty!
SCUMBAGS all...............
I hope no Republican ever hires any of them!
Palin scares the poop out of the left. I really really hope she makes a run for the top of the ticket in ‘12.
Memo to the McCain hacks:
Palin’s the only reason you got one dime out of me.
PING!!!
Kind of hard to pin a loss on someone THAT YOU PICKED TO BE IN THAT SPOT. Besides, Palin obviously connected with people. Without her, McCain would have been speaking to crowds of about 15 members at local VFWs.
RINO scumbags are expendable to us, but not SARAH PALIN.
WOW! Good idea!
Dug!
I am glad they are naming names. We are tired of hearing nothing but blame.
Palin should continue in politics and run for President. She is a real leader despite the crud people want to shower on her.
Get rid of any and all traitors in the Republican party.
Bttt!
You know it. Only only only reason I donated this year was because of Palin
As an Alaskan I am appalled...I just requested my refund!
I am seeking digital photos of Sarah Palin for a new web site I am setting up in appreciation of her. These need to be available for use without copyright restrictions - preferably taken by those who own the photos and who are willing to grant permission for their use.
Please send me a private message and I will provide an e-mail address.
RINOS will...........
Amen to that one!
All this backbiting is completely unproductive. I think the principal lesson we must learn from this debacle is that money matters. You can’t get outspent $650m to $80m and still win an election. 8 times the money could mean 8 times the audience. And in this case, it meant Obama got the additional 5 percentage points he needed to seal the deal. 5 points the other way, and McCain would have won.
Woulda, coulda, shoulda - the point is that you can’t ignore money. And that means cultivating the base, instead of ignoring and insulting it as McCain did. What McCain failed to realize was that the money for political donations comes out from hard-earned cash. This is money people can use for other things - rent, car payments and repairs, college tuition, gasoline, food, and so on. By insulting high-profile supporters who made controversial statements, he was basically saying that their concerns did not matter. Well, if their concerns don’t matter to him, then McCain’s political ambition doesn’t matter to them. At least not to the extent of shelling out hard-earned cash to hand over to his campaign. He thought he would flip them the bird by going to Federal financing. Instead, it was Obama’s cash pile that flipped him the bird by handing McCain a landslide electoral defeat.
It just goes to show that McCain really is the POS everyone who couldn’t stand him said he was, all along.
What else did people expect?
Imagine how great she’ll be when doesn’t have to read McQueeg’s idiotic “maverick” talking points and she’s allowed to talk about energy, immigration, the 2nd Amendment and the global warming lie.
Palin’s biggest weakness was her pathetic running mate and his team of losers.
The louder the RINOs and rats squeal, the more proof Sarah is “The ONE” to lead the conservative movement and clean-out the pubbie party...and they fear her.
This is a load of crap. McCain defended Palin as recently as the day before the election with ads...he went on SNL with her. Don’t believe what you’re reading; it is being forwarded by folks who don’t want Palin anywhere near 2012!
Country Club Republicanism defined.
Say it ain't so John?
Great article. Great!
Anyone have Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt’s email address? I would like to email them just to let them know how important it is to be team players of a party and how I don’t appreciate anonymous rumor mongering.
Frankly I am tired of watching “GOP” eat their own to cover up their own failures.
Remember these two guys down the road. If they are in charge of any other GOP in the future, that candidate will never get my support.
No she doesnt. They ridicule her.
Palin scares the heck out of elitist, non-Christian centrist Republicans.
The lefty women I know are threatened by her fertility. Really.
So who are these two wedges (the world’s most simple tool), Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt? What’s there background?
We must remember that John McCain has never really been a traditional conservative. No one here was excited about John McCain until he picked Sarah Palin.
Think back with me. Remember the lashan hara John McCain performed on W? Remember the lies about how the W camp sent out phone calls to South Carolinians about how John McCain had an illegitimate black child. First, there’s no recording anywhere of this call and that’s highly unusual. Second, who thinks W would send a call out like that?
It’s an example of lashan hara to insinuate that South Carlinians are all a bunch of racists and haters.
We Republicans really put our blinders on for this guy McCain and now, I, am ashamed of him. Wish my call sign wasn’t “Doug4McCain”.
How can I change my name?
I’ll hold my fire on McCain himself (he picked her himself over some staff objections from what I’ve heard), but some of his staff is another story. They want another job and want to be accepted in the beltway.
I blame McCain for Palin’s loss
What that really means is that Obama was such a horribly weak candidate that he needed 8 times the money for less than 5% points even with all the MSN running cover for him!
And it shows that McCain was such a disaster that he couldn't beat a horribly weak candidate!
May the worst man lose instead of the best man win?
He wasnt squawking for Davis and Schmidt...he was parotting Nichole Wallace (that is why the Jr. High mean girls vibe came across).
"I never did like those cockroaches!"
I was moved to wait hours to see her when she came here. I was moved to put a bumper sticker on my car and do a lot of phone calling for McCain. I even re-read his autobiography.
If John McCain does not come out publicly and refute these horrible rumors, and stand up for the Veep choice that got him many of his 50 million votes, than I am not sure he is even half a decent man.
More people wanted to see her than him!
Clowns like Rick Davis and Charlie Black have been rattling around DC for a long time. They were involved in Dole’s campaign, and we all recall how successful that was.
Matter of fact, why don’t we examine the similarities:
1. War hero.
2. Moderate squish senator.
3. Rejection of real conservative positions.
4. Refusal to truly engage their opponent, a repeat of this fatuous notion of “taking the high road.”
5. A very stirring concession speech that disappears into the mists of time.
Same exact formula as before. And I’m sure these clowns (Davis and Black) collected tidy fees for their “services” both times.
The message that has to be sent in the next cycle is that anyone who ends up on the crap list constitutes grounds for denying any and all donations to the campaign. ie, “You have Charlie Black or Rick Davis on your staff? Yea? Well, you ain’t getting a dime out of me. (click)”
I always said... He's rather go down with dignity, become part of history, than fight and be labeled in a negative manner by the MSM. I absolutely despise him, and always have.
Maybe we need to find their emails and start emailing them. Let’s put them in the spotlight. Their behavior is disrespectful and it reflects poorly on them.
I want to shine the light on them because I want people to think twice about hiring them. Any Conservative campaign has to have honest trustworthy people or it won’t succeed.
These staffers need to take some accountability for McCain’s failure. It is disgusting.
Like I said, they ridicule her. It is the RINOs that are afraid of her and what she represents.
If we have elections in 2012...
ditto here...in fact when I donated my $$$ on the final day when they asked who refered my I specifically said “Sarah Palin”....
Nicolle Wallace & Randy Scheunemann
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