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.
(Excerpt) Read more at rushlimbaugh.com ...
“NEW HAMPSHIRE DEMOCRATS.”
Actually it was the WV GOP at their FIRST EVER WV Republican Presidential Convention early on Super Tuesday. The vote was settled by 1 PM EST and the fact that Romney ‘lost’ was broadcast nationwide the rest of the day, thereby influencing the remainder of primaries and caucuses.
Here’s a link that will explain the shenanigans that went on here
http://wvgazette.com/News/200802050639
Exactly right.
Actually...I think it would be better to do away with winner-take-all primaries and have all primaries be proportioned....McCain would not have won the nomination that way.
Open primaries should be stopped....but even worse was McCain winning all of states delegates with 30% of the GOP vote
Very lame excuse. Next time, come up with something a bit more “creative”.
The RINOs will still cling to their GOP, but it won't be long before they have no place to go. Because not even the Democrats want their sorry spineless a$$es.
“McCain lost because of how he handled the bailout. He was in trouble before that, but that put the nail in his coffin.”
We have a winner. The moment he supported the nationalizing of the financial services industry through the bailout, he was done.
Excellent point. He put his campaign on hold to "handle" the bailout crisis, only to bend over and take it up his.....campaign. If he had stood up against the bailout, as MOST American people were doing, he would have won.
Well I am very sorry for my lack of creativity, next time I promise I will do better to put some sugar on top my answer. Same team dude.
Elections have always been a battle of the lesser of two evils. Even Reagan himself wasn’t an angel. Remember amnesty? It’s either we vote for a person that agrees with us 70% of the time rather than sit home and let somebody who agrees with you 5% of the time win. We let somebody who agreed with us maybe 30% of the time win the primaries because we wanted to go puritan. We went puritan again. Now, we have somebody who agrees with us 1% of the time.
Lesser of two evils is still evil, but it’s still the lesser evil.
That has yet to be determined.
I you’re going to levy charges of puritanism against those who refused to vote for McCain, then you should, in the interest of clarity, also rethink the notion of purity entirely. I mean, we are talking McCain, aren’t we? Wherefore the purity?
Ouch. Well what can I do, your opinion is very important to me.
“literally almost feed the nativist attitude toward immigration reform”
There’s the problem. Davis calls the people who are concerned about the flood of illegal immigrants “nativists”. Why doesn’t he just call us “bitter clingers”? What’s the difference between him and Obama? Polls showed 76% of the people polled opposed to amnesty. But politicians don’t care about that, because they’d rather get those Latino votes. Illegal immigration could have been a wedge issue that would have helped Republicans, but that was thrown out the window with McCain’s nomination.
I don’t have anything against immigration, I just believe it’s bad public policy to let anybody come across the border and be supported by State and Federal public services.
One very important lesson learned from the 2008 primary is that only party members should be allowed to vote in any given political party’s primary election. I also don’t believe that someone should be allowed to switch party affiliation at the drop of a hat before primary election day. There should be a time stipulation, say three months prior to the primary. Without a doubt, people outside of the party helped nominate John McCain.
“If we don’t close them, it will get even WORSE in 2012 (all independents and more dems will cross over because barry’s nomination is a lock).”
I agree. WE are looking at a Specter/Chafee 2012 ticket.
The Obama/Biden bumper sticker will have the slogan “The Conservative Choice”
I think McCain would have had better luck if he had run as a democrat.
Exactly. The 'open' New Hampshire primary revived McCain's DOA campaign, and subsequent 'open' primaries delivered the nomination to him. Job #1? Kick New Hampshire to the curb; close the damn primaries, or this will happen again.
NOTE: Coue propounded "positive thinking" and dreamed up the phrase for disturbed patients to repeat as often as possible: "Everyday in everyway I'm getting better and better."
You might think the braindead GOP would have learned from the "Old Man Dole" disaster. They have to stop pushing out old men waiting in the wings for "their turn" to run.
McC's STUPIDEST CAMPAIGN MOVE---cast your votes here.
(1) Suspending his campaign to return to D.C. to make a complete ass of himself;
(2) McC stupidly "reaching across the aisle" to Dims with mob proclivities waiting to kneecap him;
(3) going on broadcast TV to whine that Obaba "broke his promise" about campaign financing. Clueless McC did not understand what a ninny he looked like to Repubs----believing a Dim would keep a promise. McC's whining made him look like a useful tool of Obaba.
(4) falling hook line and sinker for LIEberman's "bi-partisan" con game. LIEberman was at McC's side as LIEb wrote a $100,00 check to the Dims so as not to lose his Dim bona fides. "User LIEberman" shadowed McC at every turn making sure McC read from the punkneo script;
(5) McC reading out his own supporter for dissing Obaba;
(6) McC's insiting on an "open forum" debate to show himself off, where he actually looked like an over-the-hill Home Depot clerk, mincing about, trying to find the paint stirrer.
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