Posted on 11/07/2008 6:28:12 PM PST by rabscuttle385
The conservative base was supposed to be energized by someone who believes in global warming, refuses to drill ANWR, believes in the outrageous big-government concept of 'cap and trade', and of course his critical involvement in McCain-Feingold, McCain-Lieberman, McCain-Kennedy, the Gang of 14, closing GITMO, amnesty, opposed the Bush tax cuts (citing the class envy/class warfare theme which he later tried to ignore), refused to use the name Hussein, refused to address the Rev. Wright issue, supported the bailout, provided little 'cover' for Sarah on the attacks on her and her family,,and just to top things off--considered switching parties to the democratic side and helped to slam the SwiftBoat heroes efforts against John Kerry only a few years ago.
Yep, a lot there to be energized about. /s Yes, I voted McCain--but only because he was the lesser of two evils, and because of Sarah. Never again.
I forgot his efforts to equate Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan with the religious right several years ago.
You put it in a straight forward manner. Congrats. I gave up on him when he let the agents rot.
I stand corrected, he tried to equate Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.
When you summarize it that way, I am surprised that he did not lose all 50 states. He was in my training squadron years ago (1965)...I thought he would have been better. All we know for sure is that the people of PA and Ohio need to be home schooled all over again. They have no idea what is happening. I think they should not be allowed to have football teams.
LOL. I think if everyone put together their list of top 5, you'd see a lot of the same names. ;-)
Arnie would place pretty high on my list.
Turned the middle off big time.
You are so wrong. McCain did not run to the right. He could not articulate a clear conservative vision because he doesn't believe in one and staffed up with fellow Rockefeller, country-club, RINOs who hate the base. They consider the base uncouth and ignorant (i.e., not much different than Obama in SF). The treatment of Palin shows it.
Obama ran to the right of McCain, promising tax cuts, promising to protect the 2nd amendment, ignoring abortion, claiming magic solutions to health care problems, and generally lying his bleep off. He had the biggest funding advantage since Nixon v McGovern and a press more biased than any in the history of the Republic. Obama's party's opposition was headed by the least popular president since Hoover, in part because Bush is one of the least articulate presidents since Silent Cal (with the possible exception of his father - apparently it's in the DNA). Plus, the same president oversaw the biggest growth in government since Roosevelt. A Democrat created financial crisis was successfully pinned on the Republicans who tried to prevent it and for whatever reason were unable to point that out.
I could go on and on. If Nixon won by 20 points, Obama should have won by 25 or more. He was spotted 20 and still didn't cover the spread. Obama got 52%.
A competent, cogent, articulate conservative with a loyal, professional staff would have annihilated Obama. Even McCain, if he had an Atwater or Rove would have won.
This is not a defeat of conservatives. It's another failure of the RINOs. The coming wave of socialism is a direct result of RINO policies and ineptness.
NO MORE RINOS! EVER! THEY POISON THE PARTY AND COUNTRY.
So kicking your base voters to the curb wasn't a good idea?
Who knew!
/S
Yep. I take no ownership for the thought--it was shared by many.
LOL, Turned the middle off big time. LOL, ROFLOL, that is a good one, post such pearls often!
The problem with the GOP is it has been moving its center to more towards the socialist left for many years.
Yep, McCain needed more than a three day strategy. You see John McCain thought we think the senate has any honor.
So he didn’t get the message that he needed to pound at Barrack’s associations, once he is defending himself on one, move to the next one and don’t quit. Then he would be on his way to the white house.
But, no, no, who wants to do that. Instead John will hang out in the Senate with the liberal twins Harry and Dick.
Cannot be gramnesty, he's mccains whipping boy!
First they need to have a candidate who actually believes in those ideas. McCain failed on too many counts, IMO.
HB: “George W Bush, for whom I voted twice, like his father, never gave a damn one way or the other about the future of the GOP or the nation.”
I agree the Bushes damaged the GOP and the nation, but I refuse to believe they don’t care about America. Not that it matters much, but I think their motives were good.
That’s the problem with moderates and liberals. It’s not that they mean harm, it’s that they don’t understand that their policies ultimately lead to tyranny. Moderates may be a bit slower getting there, but get there they will.
RINOs like McCain are really no better than leftists. His bipartisanship means giving the Democrats almost everything they want. It’s not like McCain proposes eliminating farm subsidies and settles for a (bipartisan) 25 year plan to slowly reduce them before they are gone. No, McCain’s bipartisanship means the Democrats propose doubling subsidies but compromise for a few points less.
Do you know what democrats call republicans who 'reach across the aisle'?
SUCKERS!
He’s had an overall fairly postive conservative rating. Lifetime of 82%, closer to the 90’s recently.
Liberal Republicans are much more dangerous than liberal democrats,
because liberal Republicans BLUR THE DISTINCTION between conservatism and liberalism,
MAKING LIBERALISM MUCH MORE ACCEPTABLE!!
country is still center right because Obama’s positions were to appear in that spot. Tax cuts, drilling, responsible strong foreign policy, etc. He ran basically to the right of McCain on many issues to grab some GOP voters. The pendulum is to the left, which is why he one, but he would not have won without those center right stances.
Much like Clinton.
stockstrader: “Liberal Republicans are much more dangerous than liberal democrats”
So true! President Clinton could have never accomplished the prescription drug benefit. Congress would have fought him tooth and nail. No, it took a squishy RINO in OUR party to do the deed. And No Child Left Behind? Only a RINO could get away with expanding federal control of our schools. That’s something conservatives have fought against for decades.
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