I agree. It’s insane. The reaction by the Party has been infinitely worse than the gaffe itself. This could have been remedied easily by a clarification and simple, sincere apology for the misunderstanding.
If you’re a McCain or Bush, you can run as poor a campaign as you like and pin the loss on the third party candidate or your VP pick. If you’re a conservative—forget it. No mistakes permitted. And you’ll be the scapegoat for losses in other, unrelated campaigns.
People ran away from George HW Bush after he said “Read My Lips” and ended up raising taxes anyways. I would hardly consider him to be conservative. I would hope you wouldn’t either.
Exactly. Our weaklings folded at the first shriek from the feminists. What wusses. We could have thrown it back in their faces as much ado over nothing and told them to get real, discuss the issues that affect our nation, how 'Bam is destroying our republic, how McCaskill voted in lockstep with Dingy Harry . . .