[rabscuttle385]

Ouch.

[MtnClimber]

I think it was McCain’s lack of attacks against clear targets and the mass media being in the tank for Obama.

[ohiogrammy]

Sounds true though, I am amazed at the people who pulled the lever for this empty suit, most because they were fed up with Bush.

[joesbucks]

Always said you need the moderates to win. McCain tried to run to the right and cozy up to the people he has always been least comfortable with. SoCons.

Turned the middle off big time.

[stockstrader]

According to exit polls, Barack Obama won moderates by a whopping 21 points on Tuesday, 60-39 percent. That more than doubled John Kerry's nine-point margin over George W. Bush among moderates in 2004.

It sure was a good thing that we nominated a so-called 'moderate', INSTEAD OF A CONSERVATIVE,,,

because as so many said, even here, a moderate would be able to attract moderates and independents. /BPS (biggest possible sarcasm)

[ChetNavVet]

I Don’t trust Polls, they are inherently skewed.

Some people that can’t speak a lick of english or are underage may avoid them. Dead people Can’t respond, neither can Cats, dogs, and inanimate objects.

I know we were robbed of some swing states. The fix was in from the start.

Oh, and just in case people that belive the exit polls think I’m paranoid. Sometimes paranoid people are right, even if by accident.

[calcowgirl]

Republicans are consoling themselves by telling anyone who will listen that we still live in a "center-right country." They're right. That's the good news. The bad news is that they've lost the center.

No... McCain lost the center. In fact, he lost votes from the center, the right, independents, old, young... he just flat out lost across the board. Nominating one of the most despised Republicans as the presidential candidate was extraordinarily stupid. The election was lost the day McCain got the nomination, IMO.

[DiogenesLaertius]

McCain failed to attract moderates because he ran a crappy campaign and the financial crisis.

He was just too old to run. His mind was set in old dogmas and unresponsive. Just look at the debates. He attacks Obama, Obama lies to deflect. McCain doesn’t point out the lie. Rinse, wash, repeat. The lack of responsiveness on the campaign trail was the same.

He should’ve realized he had lost and campaigned in minnesota and other states to help downticket republicans. Instead, he idiotically tried to think he could still win without money and a message that yo-yo’ed around to whatever suited his old, addled mind.

I supported the guy, but his ability to run an organization was probably the worse of any candidate since Jimmy Carter.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Guess what? We conservatives are glad to get rid of the “center.”

I want people standing next to me that I can trust with a gun. Everyone else can take a hike.

[hinckley buzzard]

Somebody forgot to remind the idiot McCain: Driving down the road, all you find in the "center" is roadkill. Now he's history because he didn't have the sense to surround himself with competent help.

[hinckley buzzard]

Somebody forgot to remind the idiot McCain: Driving down the road, all you find in the "center" is roadkill. Now he's history because he didn't have the sense to surround himself with competent help.

[MartinStyles]

Bush was damn lucky to win 04, since he’s just not a conservative. Republicans have to stop running and governing from the middle. People get used to that and then can’t tell the difference for awhile when a democrat runs in the middle.. Until he governs left, then the damage is done for awhile.

[FreeFromLiberalizm]

“According to exit poll..”

F&*$# the poll!

[CitizenUSA]

This article highlights the foolishness of letting moderates run the party. I mean, they are certainly welcome to vote Republican, but they shouldn’t be setting policy. I don’t know how we can purge these squishy RINOs, but purge them we must if we ever truly want to move the country to the right.

Conservatism requires belief in social conservatism, small government, and individual liberty. No one is truly conservative who demeans one of these three ideals at the expense of the others. All are required!

Show me someone who claims to be a fiscally conservative social liberal, and I’ll show you someone who holds mutually exclusive views. You cannot get fiscal conservatism in a nation that rejects social conservatism. Fiscal conservatism is only possible when the citizens discipline themselves to behave in moral ways.

By the same token, big government social conservatives are on a fool’s errand. Big government provides the safety net that encourages foolish and/or immoral behavior. Asking government to fix people’s souls is like asking an arsonist to put out a fire.

[Polybius]

Republicans are consoling themselves by telling anyone who will listen that we still live in a "center-right country."

America is a "center" country but the pendulum swings between "Center-Right" and "Center-Left".

Let's face facts. George W. Bush was the "Far Less Than Great Communicator". The man never inspired the country. He never explained to the country why it was important not to lose the Iraq War. He never bothered to even defend himself in regards to Katrina and you never heard a single word about these from the White House.

Then, we also had a Republican Congress for 6 years spending money like a drunken sailor.

So, after eight years, the 60% of the country that is to the left of us conservatives was sick and tired of "Republicans", "Conservatives" and the horse we rode in on.

Thus, the country is now "Center-Left".

If Obama keeps his promises to the Left, he will take America down the toilet and, four years from now, America will then become "Center-Right".

If Obama breaks his promises to the Left and moves to the right, as Clinton did, things might not be so bad after four years and the country will then stay "Center-Left" for the time being.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Well, the San Francisco Democrats have moved out into the suburbs, fired up the grill and settled down into the patio furniture...heard some woman claiming to be a Republican on C-Span this morning, saying she voted for Obama because she went to some of his campaign events and some of McCain's, and Obama's were more "inclusive" - we have to have more women and minorities in the party she stated - hello, there was a woman on the Republican ticket, this administration has had hispanics at all levels including Attorney General, and blacks at all levels, including two as Secretary of State, one of whom turned his back on the party - no one is excluded from the Republican party except those who want to exclude themselves - but at least we seem to getting rid of some of the dumb ones......

[Just mythoughts]

Republicans are consoling themselves by telling anyone who will listen that we still live in a "center-right country." They're right. That's the good news. The bad news is that they've lost the center.

Moderates finally exposed... It now makes total sense why lord McCain operatives are plotting the destruction of Sarah. None of them can admit the one who got the nomination via the supposed moderate vote then could not get them to elect him.

And once again it will be the moderate elitist who will jut out their all knowing jaws and point their accusing finger to the Sarah conservatives for making them vote Bama.

[Cacique]

btt

[Monti Cello]

McCain never presented a coherent alternative vision.

He couldn't - his entire career was based on defusing the notion of principled conservatism - while he had a generally conservative voting record, he continually offered rhetorical cover for libs who held that conservatism needed dilution.

He was left without a strong leg to stand on, and ran his campaign in neutral, trying to simply occupy the center ground, but lacking a compelling argument for himself.

[RJL]

John McCain underperformed Bush by six points among conservatives

So kicking your base voters to the curb wasn't a good idea?

Who knew!
/S

[Man50D]

The problem with the GOP is it has been moving its center to more towards the socialist left for many years.