Posted on 01/17/2009 7:01:24 AM PST by rabscuttle385
RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, have you thought back to the 2008 election? Have you asked yourself who was responsible for that loss? Have you asked yourself who really should shoulder the blame and the burden for the defeat of Senator McCain? A lot of people have been speculating this, a lot of postmortems on the election. Let's go to the BBC. BBC World Service, host Stephen Sackur spoke with former McCain campaign manager Rick Davis and asked Rick Davis on whose shoulders rests the burden of the McCain defeat.
DAVIS: We didn't successfully reach out to them. I mean, but you look at the leadership John McCain gave which is counter to the direction that the party was headed, when you have the Rush Limbaughs of the world who, you know, literally almost feed the nativist attitude toward immigration reform, what do you think the Hispanic voter, the Latino voter is gonna remember? They're gonna remember the attacks, not the efforts by people like John McCain to try and reform.
RUSH: So there you have it, Rick Davis, the campaign manager for McCain, has dumped on my shoulders the reason McCain lost and others like me alienated Hispanic voters. This is so wrong on so many levels, but it explains why this campaign was so inept. A brief time-out. Just wanted you to hear that so you could stew over it.
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I hope Rush and the other conservative pundits have finally got it through their heads to never support these Rino backstabbers again.
McCain has to blame someone....he’s not about to take the blame he deserves.
Has anyone noticed? No one misses McCain. I hear no voices out there saying, ‘if only McCain had won’.
If McCain had cared at all about the future of his country he would have sh^tcanned this schmuck years ago.
He lost because he said he would never sign a pork laden bill and then signed onto the biggest Pork bailout in the history of mankind. Look in the mirror, John.
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I don’t know if Rush is totally responsible for the loss of the Presidency and possibly some Congressional seats, but I remember listening to him several times during the period from the nomination to the election and thinking, “Rush is so critical about McCain that we are going to lose all enthusiasm from the base of the party—and we will lose.”
Whether you like McCain or not, we are now faced with the loss of the Presidency, Congress, and soon we will find more liberals, perhaps raving liberals, on the Supreme Court.
We nominated him just like we will next time. You have open ballots in lib states like IA and NH you get McCain. Start the elections in TX/GA and we will get Conservatives.
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A total, smug, arrogant little turd.
McCain was leading or even in the polls when he suspended his campaign to head back to Washington to lead the charge for a $700 billion handout to Wall Street that the strong majority of the electorate opposed. His poll numbers dropped 10 points and never recovered.
For all of his flaws and all of his campaign’s strategic and tactical mistakes, McCain might well be awaiting his inauguration if he had come down on the right side of the economic issues that were on the top of everyone’s mind when they cast their ballot in November.
That’s true .. especially when the party in power refuses to blame the party responsible for the mess - THE DEMOCRATS - and we even have the names of those responsible .. but their names are never uttered in public - it’s disgusting. Our party has sat silent and allowed the dems to blame the repubs for the whole mess .. and that’s just not true.
I can’t figure out why we have such a spineless lot in the repub party .. it just baffles me.
Exactly. On issues of consequence, the left has a filibuster-proof majority. America will have to rely on the few conservative senators to take procedural measures where necessary.
John McCain was a prime example of “lackluster candidate.” He bareshowed showed up for the last debate. No wonder his team knocked Sarah Palin: she showed him up.
Rick Davis, in explaining McCain’s loss, calling Rush and his supporters “nativists”, explains why McCain lost . . .
We actually have an opportunity here to start a Rebel Republican movement or a new Party. With the corruption in the electoral process by the DNC machine we may not see another Republican president. Maybe its time to move on.
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What do you mean "we"? By the time my stupid state got around to holding its primary election, McLoser was already a done deal. "We" didn't all get a say in who "we" wanted at the top of our ticket.
If he hadn't picked Palin as his running mate I would never, ever have voted for him (as it was, I was hoping he'd win, then get too sick to finish his term).
I would be for having the all the primary elections held on the same day, or at least the same month. That way maybe all of our votes can count for something.
We simply have no Republicans left in the Congress who are willing to stand up for conservative principles. It’s all compromise and appeasement.
I believe this last election effectively destroyed the party.
Well, it sounded like you were dumping on Palin for being on SNL every week. The fact that someone was parodying her was kinda beyond her control.
I voted for him, but I did it the Ann Coulter way. (I don’t link well but the site was getdrunkandvoteformccain.com)
Sorry, McCain, you did that all by yourself.
Agreed!
Democrats voting in the Republican primaries in the early crossover states. By the time most Freepers got to vote, it was too late. It was a done deal.
Now, the question is, How did this happen? And the answer is, that the RNC and the RINOs who controlled the levers of power in the Republican Party WANTED it to happen. They wanted Giuliani or McCain, and they hated Hunter and Tompson.
So, how did they arrange McCain's victory? By frontloading the primaries with liberal states and crossover states. It's as simple as that. Although primaries are run at the state level, it's the RNC and guys like Rove and Bush who control the order of the primaries, who say that New Hampshire has to vote first, who refuse to do anything about the crossover problem or the voter ID problem after being in power for eight years.
They wanted a RINO to win the primaries, and what better way to accomplish that than let the Democrats decide who will be the Republican candidate?
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