Posted on 01/17/2009 7:01:24 AM PST by rabscuttle385
I knew quite a few rabid McCain supporters during the primary and the general election.
They are all very, very quiet right now.
Can any McCain supporter still defend this idiot?
In most states the state legislature makes these decisions, sometimes after consulting with state party leaders. In others the legislature makes basic rules, and the parties decide specifics. In some the party leadership decides everything.
Thanks for the info. So how do we go about getting these folks to change the rules?
Get elected to the state legislature or the party state committee, depending on the state. Either way will require the lucky candidate to spend either a few hundred hours a year or some tens of thousands of dollars a year for 3 to 10 years to get the job done, while working with like minded people with the same goals all around the state. This is called retail politics, and is basically the same as it has been since the Roman Republic. It involves a lot of energy and a genuine willingness to meet people, or a small fortune to succeed.
Thank you. Je vis pour amuser. (?) I live to amuse!
That’s discouraging to say the least. I doubt anyone here has that amount or time or money. I know I don’t.
That is why for most people the first idea is to find a group of like minded people, and together do what you can’t do by yourself. It would still require at least 2 or 3 hours per week on the average for anyone leading such a group, and that amount per month for any worthwhile members. (much more during election periods).
You are not the one. The comment was made before he picked a running mate.
John McCain lost the presidential race all by his little self. No amount of dumping on Sarah or Rush can change the facts.
When McCain suspended his campaign my gut instict, which I didn’t want to admit, was that it was a mistake (and it was). However, the decision to suspend was 100% McCain - not Rick Davis.
But Rick Davis is also wrong. It was not Rush’s fault. Rush simply filled a void that McCain and Davis left lacking on the right. Had they engaged conservatives more fully Rush would’ve had less cause to fill that void.
One thing is near certain: there is little appetite for a moderate GOPer in 2012. Frankly, I think it’s a very good chance that it will be Sarah Palin.
McCain shouldn’t have had to have defended Palin. The woman should take some responsibility for not giving a decent interview. She looked foolish and unqualified. Plus the rest of the world doesn’t go for a woman needing a man to get her job done. It was up to her to represent herself the right way. Trying to defend someone after the fact is like trying to close the barn door after the horses have run away, it’s a little silly. I think the reason why McCain didn’t defend Palin was because he was embarrassed, as he well should have been. He picked her without really knowing her. McCain was very impulsive in picking her and he got caught. That’s why he didn’t defend her, if a woman wants a job, she shouldn’t need a man to speak for her. By the way, McCain did defend Palin, he took her under his wing and got everyone to accept her as his VP with the announcement her daughter was pregnant out of wedlock. McCain really went of of his way for Palin, just by puting her on the ticket under scandalous circumstances, so don’t give the impression that McCain didn’t defend Palin, if anything he really went out of his way for her. So it is a ridiculous argument that he didn’t defend her.
That will change. Under Obama, McCain will no longer stab you in the back but rather openly and in your face.
Mark my words.
McCain is a Manchurian POS, a Rat saboteur designed to inflict maximum damage from within. Either that or he's just plain senile. In either case, he must be removed, pronto, or the Republican Party (and the conservative movement, since the MSM publicly proclaims McCain as a conservative) will be rendered utterly impotent, more so than at present.
Yeah. It’s Rush’s fault that they sucked.
I will back her...... she, as should all candidates, possesses a political record of true conservatism that is proof of what we will get for our vote. Anyone that votes for one person on their promises alone is a fool !
Precedent Crackbarry is such an example of such voters who do not follow that simple rule !
Silly socialist sheeple with a fast food american idol set of values was sold this current administration by the MSM. I canceled every subscription of every paper and periodical we had at home and at work and wrote the owners of the rags as to why. They no longer know or IMO just ignore journalism, they have an opinion page in the paper yet the entire content of the paper is just opinion these days. Propagandists are domestic enemies IMO. Just like this entire new administration.......
Just my opinion of course.
So now we know McCain’s campaign manager was an idiot as well. Illuminating.
Rush exposed what McCain, to this day, refuses to admit.
The CORE of america does NOT like mccain.
The CORE of america does not like mccain’s amnesty plan.
The CORE of america does not like mccain’s pro-homosexal marriage stand (see vanity fair and his refusal to sign onto the FMA)
What this Rick Davis is REALLY saying is McCain blames talk radio, rush, for EXPOSING McCain and hindering his ability to lie.
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