I Almost Wonder if Republicans Deliberately Lost the Election

11/09/2008 | SoftwareEngineer

[SouthTexas]

The problem I see with part of your thinking is the economy is down now, Bush’s fault and will rise during the next four years and of course, Obama will get the credit.

Same as with Clinton following Reagan.

[Thane_Banquo]

This one will be much more prolonged than the cycle recessions in ‘91 or ‘00. And Obama’s tax hikes will make it much worse. He will still be in trouble.

[pnh102]

I am sure there has to be at least one "conservative" who would vote for Hussein simply because of the problems he and the Democrat party would inherit.

Although this is probably not the best of comparisons, would Reagan have gotten his 2 landslide victories had he Jimmy Carter not screwed things up so badly?

[pillut48]

I'm still extremely suspicious of the timing on the 'global economic crisis'--you can tell me to put the tin foil hat away, but I heard several different people on Cavuto's show make comments like "it's almost like someone pulling the strings in the background" but that was never followed up in questioning...who do we know with BILLIONS of dollars to play with who might be interested in the outcome of the US's presidential election??? Could it be.....GEORGE SOROS?!?!? I think future investigations will show that this election WAS manipulated in several ways, the stock market included. Hopefully the Republicans will even investigate! But who knows, they've been such weinies the past few years, letting all kinds of crap slide. Feh.

[VlPu]

If you mean the people who control the party, yes, they did their best so that Clinton will be elected 15 December.
http://end-times-computers.blogspot.com/2008/11/why-senator-obama-impeached-only-after.html

[kabar]

Newbie, your self-absorbed vanity says it all.

[pillut48]

Again with wondering about long term planning by a nameless enemy of America—is it possible that those who were advising McCain were actually plants who screwed things up on purpose? That are the ones smearing Gov. Palin now in preparation for the run up to 2012??

[Lorianne]

One could see this meltdown coming from over 18 months ago. Yet Republican pundits kept saying they didn’t see any indication of trouble (they were lying). They thought the bad news would hurt them. In fact, they could have used it to their advantage ... if they had wanted to. I think they didn’t want to.

[Neu Pragmatist]

This will be the general rule in the years to come : If it goes well, take the credit , and if it goes bad , blame your predecessor (Bush) .

[Nephi]

Did you see this?

[mel]

I read a lot of articles stressing that point, that GOP needs to regroup and come back in 4 years with better plan.

[Lorianne]

What future investigations?

[EDINVA]

“McCain never really wanted to win the election and become President all that badly.”

I’m not too sure, but then I remember Dole wanted the nomination more than he seemed to want the presidency, so maybe there is something to that.

And I agree with the post that Obama will not be blamed ... in four years they will STILL be blaming Bush.

[pillut48]

Yeah. *sigh*

[AC-130 Gunship]

Yep, your instinct is right.

IF McCorpse truly wanted to win this election he and his campaign have taken the Reverend Wright issue and wrapped it around Hussein's scrawny Marxist neck.

The faux-"Maverick" ran a dull, lifeless, limp-wristed "bi-partisan" campaign as per the orders of his New World Order overlords.

And anyway - how does a pro-Shamnesty, pro-Illegal Invasion, pro-socialist policy, CFR-creating/anti-Free Speech, Kennedy-lovin' "Republican" get the nod as the GOP nominee IN THE FIRST PLACE??

Can you say "Fix"??

[Oldpuppymax]

Nothing at all cynical about your remarks. In fact, I think you’re several months late! Indeed, McCain was chosen because republican higher ups KNEW he would have the best chance of losing. So it wasn’t McCains decision. He was simply this years Bob Dole! I feel badly for Sarah Palin, who actually thought they were trying to win the thing. She spent several months being beaten down by McCain forces for her outrageous (that is, conservative) views, was gagged and muzzled by the same limp-wrists now annonymously attacking her, endured ludicrous treatment by the MSM, all the while believing it was her job to win, not lose. My next donation to the republican party will be made just as soon as hell freezes over from “climate change.”

[proudpapa]

Yeah. I wondered the same thing when McCain suspended his campaign and supported the bailout.

McCain should have come out against the bailout and demanded to know why it was being rushed through without any real debate.

[Force of Truth]

It would have to be staged by a very few individuals. There is just too much money involved to get a lot of people on board with something like that.

[DeLaine]

Isn’t it more of a *hysterical* tendency?????

[RegulatorCountry]

You’re not alone in wondering about this. McCain conceded entirely too quickly, and was quite happy to do it. The only sad faces on that stage belonged to Sarah and Todd Palin. There were premature concessions by Republicans in other races, too. Combine this with Obama’s oddly strained, joyless “victory” speech, and it was all too strange. I’ve thought before, and posted before, that something very unpleasant is coming down the pike, something worse than the economic distress we’re currently beginning to experience. That pompous fool, Joe Biden, alluded to it, whatever “it” may be. Batten down the hatches time, imho.