Posted on 11/05/2008 12:57:38 PM PST by Natural Law
If McCain would have dropped dead or become incapacitated from a stroke or heart attack, who would have replaced him?
Ok that is the one that should have run in the first place!
It appears you are another "blame the voter" type.
Since when are voters obligated to vote for any candidate?
Since when does any candidate own or get to assume anyone's vote?
If a candidate cannot earn votes on their own strength then they do not deserve to win elections and anyone-but-the-opponent votes are not earned votes!
IOW, McCain did not earn votes and did not deserve to win!
McCain and Romney: RINOs who compromised too much with the enemy.
Giuliani: Country-clubber who sucked up to the social leftists.
Thompson: No fire in the belly for the job, got off to a bad start for that reason.
Huckabee: Nanny-stater who was a one trick pony (minister).
Ron Paul: Nutjob.
Tancredo: One-trick pony on immigration, apparently enough people in the US don't care.
Brownback, Hunter, T. Thompson: Didn't spend enough time before 2008 trying to get themselves known on all three 24/7 news channels, so they relied on their Presidential campaigns to do that.
Hunter never had a chance but, that is not the problem. The problem was there were no true electable conservatives on the horizon one to two years before the primaries.
After the Republicans lost Congress in 2006, my first thought was "surely the party will realize its leftward movement was unpopular and a realignment will soon take place."
Was I ever wrong. Immediately the party elite (and many here on FR) started blaming conservatives for the loss. It was our fault for not supporting these "moderate Republicans." We sat home - or so it was said.
Soon the presidential primaries started and once again left leaning Republicans were being pushed on us big time. So many members of FR were on the Rudy bandwagon a purge was enacted just to clear the air. Look who all of the viable candidates were: McCain, Rudy, Romney. McCain may very well have been the most conservative of the bunch.
So once again the Republicans ran a moderate for office and got an ass whooping. McCain's run for the independents netted him a whopping 39% of that group. Once again we are telling ourselves 2 years of Obama will drive people back to conservatism.
I am not holding my breath.
Speak for yourself.
Even a series of nationwide runoffs would be better and cheaper.
Say 3 runoff races over the course of a year. Anyone who wants in has to be in by a certain date and once they’re out they’re out. Last two men standing six months before the general are in the last runoff race. Winner goes to the main event.
We are pretty much doomed by our party structure. The names that did and did not appear in the primaries is a reflection of the GOP, who is running it, and how it is run. With the amount of money and influence involved the party is an oligarchical organization with money and support handed out in a quit pro quo and patronage system. Somehow we need to either rectify this or take our football, money, and votes and go elsewhere.
Looks like some fell for scams, too.....
http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/congratulations-to-president-elect-obama
I tried everything to get a post through and even talking NICE about Obama (nearly gagging on my keyboard) and didn’t work.
someone came through as “hillbuzz” and said they’d all been scammed.
“With the amount of money and influence involved the party is an oligarchical organization with money and support handed out in a quit pro quo and patronage system”
I agree completely, we have lost many seats because of challengers that were not funded or obstructed because they dared challenge one of the good old boys who thought it was his turn.
Even though I hate that he won, I like what you said. I think within the next year if not sooner they’re going to see how stupid they were.
Foolish.
Caveat emptor, let the voter beware. Of course I blame the voter. Barry did not get there with no votes did he? The people seen, heard and acted upon what they wanted. It had nothing to do with McCain or Palin, to say different is saying that the people do NOT have a right to say so themselves.
There were a hundred very good reasons NOT to vote for barry or better yet NOT TO VOTE at all, but no, these people voted on pure emotion and yes, they did so willingly and to blame McCain is foolishness.
Since those are your words and not mine it seems we agree to your foolishness.
Of course I blame the voter.
You were/are blaming those who didn't vote for McCain. Blaming Obama voters is foolish...Obama and the Democrats are competition. BLaming them is like blaming the opposing players for beating your team! Duh and foolish!
to blame McCain is foolishness.
Blaming McCain for losing is foolish? Bwahahahahaaa, did you say that McCain shouldn't be blamed for running a campaign that couldn't beat an unaccomplished nobody with criminal antiAmerican associate??
Yeah, right...
Since there was a great gulf between the platform of McCain/Palin and barry/biden one must assume those who voted for barry did so because they found NOTHING appealing with anything that Sarah or John (yes note the order) had to offer.
Given the choice between a fishing rod and a fish, they chose the fish. Can we really blame the salesman for not selling the fishing rod, when all they WANTED was a fish?
Please know that I am not “blaming” anyone for voting for barry, they did so of their own free will. What I am NOT doing is blaming McCain for them doing so.
I bet you can tell me more than a dozen reasons why you would never vote for barry, but not one single good reason why anyone would?
How do you beat that, when the MSM is 100% behind barry and his ‘change” philosophy and NOT ONE person knows yet, what the change is or will be.
All I am saying, in an illogical war, logic will always be useless. Yesterday proved that.
Hey, know hard feelings right
You got that right!
IMO the truth to it all is that people are tired of the war and blaming Bush instead of the Dems who intentionally prolonged it with their opposition as well as tired of the current economy as portrayed by the MSM instead of, again, looking at the worst Congress in decades who, by the way, is Democratically controlled.
They wanted some thing different, totally different and they got it.
McCain ran a McCain style campaign, little passion, a bit disjointed and way too friendly to his opposition. He never took the gloves off and took the nuke options off the table before the battles began.
Right! And we were fighting a multi-front battle which included the MSM this time more than ever, and McCain’s campaign style.
The MSM was the worst............
They should have let Sarah do her own thing, IMO.
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