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.
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 >
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.
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
I loathed McCain and was determined that he was going to be the first GOP candidate in my life that I refused to vote for. The selection of Palin changed that in a split-second, and I cast my vote (for HER) with a level of enthusiasm that I had not experienced since the days of Ronald Reagan.
A study wasn’t necessary. It was obvious to anyone with a brain paying attention that it was only as close as it was because of Palin. McCain got about 60-million votes. 10-million of those voters wouldn’t have crossed the street to shake his hand. They voted for Palin. Without her, McCain gets a Mondale type beating.
She brought 20 points to the table, I don’t care what anyone says.
My state GOP coordinator echos the sentiment that because of her, McCain lost 20 points.
He lost 20 points, because he was campaigning for Hussein.
He did everything he could to throw the race.
He was a palooka, plain and simple.
I am not at all surprised by this, as hubby and I voted for Palin -— not McCain. He just happened to be on the ballot with her.
Out of the four people on the 2008 ticket, Sarah Palin was the only one who was reasonably sane, and the only one reasonably qualified to be President.
I did not vote for John McCain in 2008. I voted for Sarah Palin. It’s not my fault McCain was also on the ticket.
Duh is right. One can easily envision the dimensions
of McCain’s historic loss without Mrs. Palin.
An Obama mandate would have been claimed, it was any
way.