John McCain was the dumbest candidate the GOP ever nominated... and he chose an equally dumb running mate... who didn’t know how to run an effective campaign.
Mitt Romney is the opposite and he chose of the sharpest running mates in GOP history. He’s run an amazing campaign and after every one wrote him off for dead back in September, he mounted one of the most extraordinary political comebacks in American history.
His deserved win next week would be one for the history books!
Wonder if this could be a ‘head fake’.
Whenever I hear of something like this, I can’t help but to think of when Bush & Cheney went out to California, while also doing a media buy out there in the latter days of the 2000 race. Had the same time and resources been used in say....FLORIDA, we might have had a MUCH easier time of it. We shall see in this case. For the past several elections, PA always seems just barely close enough to lure the GOP into spending money, to no avail.
Easy now you will be accused of PDS. Speaking of Palin, where has she been? Her cultists thought any candidate who did not kiss her ring and take campaign advice from her was doomed. Despite her having a recurrent gig on Greta as the resident member of the peanut gallery, she has been invisible. Nice lady, solid conservative, good Christian and thankfully humble and sees the big picture and knows that she has about 1/3 of the country that likes her, 1/3 who could care less and another 1/3 who hates her. I do think part of her appeal was married white guys who had some Freudian thing going on..."Oh you see her, she can rock those 6" heels and say the name Milton Freidman in a conversation."
Rendell said the exact same thing about McCain in 2008 in the final week before the election. He was insisting McCain had a great chance to take PA and he begged for more resources from the Democrat party.
Any Republican had a solid chance of defeating Obama. Most people want to vote Obama out, as long as they don’t hate his opponent. Most Republicans would have been able to do much better than Romney has been in the polls. Romney’s campaign was called the worst in history by Pat Caddell on FOX News before the debates. Romney had one great success, and that was the first debate. It’s a sign of how much people hate Obama that that one debate was enough to get people to accept Romney as an alternative.
Romney is no more or less dumb than Palin. Neither of them are geniuses like, say, a Dennis Prager or Mark Levin, but they’re about as smart as you’re going to get from a politician. Palin is a much better, more natural advocate for the conservative cause than Romney. And, while Ryan may be smarter than either of them, she put in a better debate performance against Biden than he did.
I’m impressed, I must admit. His running mate choice was genius and it seems as if his whole strategy was ingenius. His business acumen is showing as well. Americans like leadership and they see it in him.
Palin, btw, was the ONLY thing he did right...but he did it for the wrong reasons...he thought she would just be dead weight yet SHE drew the crowds and the money...SHE was the excitement....
if Romney can pull off this election, look back to Sarah and the Tea party....Sarah made us sit up and be proud....I'll always be thankful to her...