Posted on 11/30/2013 12:34:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Without Sarah, he would have been laughed into conceding by July.
I guarantee you the only reason I voted for that doddering old man is because I believed Matt Damon’s view about actuarial tables and hoped Sarah would simply ascend...after a sad and regretful state funeral...
The big difference is that with Sarah, McCain was able to come in second. If Palin had not been on the ticket, McCain would have come in last.
Yeah, in fact, I was hoping winning would be too much for his ticker on election night.
The most troubling aspect of all of this is that it is more than likely that Obama would have lost the 2008 election if Sarah Palin had been at the top of the GOP Ticket.
Palin-McCain would have won in a landslide.
That was the huge mistake the GOP establishment made at the 2008 convention.
I posted here right after the election that had Sarah NOT been on the ticket McLame would have lost by an additional 20 million votes. OK a little hype there but I could believe 5-10 million less. He was a disaster and I surely would not have voted for him. Any one even remember when they floated ‘TOM RIDGE!?????
Because Joe Biden is SUCH a much smarter and honorable person than Sarah. < /BULLSTALIN >
Same here.
You are quite correct. He knew this before he picked her. I’m sure his internal polling was saying that he did not a snowball’s chance in hell of winning even one State if he did not find a conservative to be his running mate.
I almost didn’t vote when I heard McCain say we don’t have to fear anything from an Obama presidency. I knew the fix was in but held my nose anyway and did my duty.
Just read my tag line for the reason why she wasn’t at the top of the ticket.
He personally wanted Joe Lieberman (Yes, Al Gore’s Joe Lieberman) but was talked out of it.
You can’t only consider where he would have been without Palin, but how would he have effected the Republican vote if he had, as rumored, chosen Lieberman? You might not be too far off on your initial projection.
Her job was to push this old tired coot over the finish line when all he kept saying was “he seems like a nice guy” and would never talk about the many many things everyone else was yelling at the top of thier lungs about this imposter and would never step up to the plate. He deserved to lose and so did romulus. No one challenegd him to a fight because they were afraid of his half blackness that would have turned into a full blackness when attacked
The facts have never gotten in the way of the MSM writing a hit piece of the right. The problem is that the e-GOP either believes it or chooses to lose rather than give up being RINOs.
Palin scared the heck out of Obama because of her appeal to Walmart moms . If she’d had free reign to run her side of the campaign, she would have forced Obama into even more errors and revealed his nastiness and lack of cool (”lipstick on a pig;” “fish wrap”) in unpredictable ways. Mc Cain’s suspending the campaign took that off the rails.
It was Fred Thompson’s idea first to have her as a running mate.
In retrospect (and given the malicious anti-TEA attacks), what the hell was the RNC thinking?
I voted for Sarah. Too bad there isn’t a way to switch out the Pres/VP ballot spots at the voting booth.
I voted for Sarah Palin. What’s his name, that dim-witted RINO, just happened to be taking up space on the ballot.
John Who????
Palin got my vote some jerk was along for the ride
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