Posted on 11/06/2008 6:26:50 PM PST by Blackhawk73
In my previous life, I witnessed far more difficult postmortems. This one is easy:
The patient was fatally stricken on Sept. 15 — caught in the rubble when the roof fell in (at Lehman Bros., according to the police report) — although he did linger until his final, rather quiet demise on Nov. 4.
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Once I understood Palin’s history and views I jumped on board and was a vocal and financial advocate for the McCain/Palin ticket.
Obviously the financial issues negatively impacted the GOP. Despite the major responsibility for the mortgage fiasco belonging to the Democrats, the GOP held the Presidency, and the party in power takes the hit, right or wrong. McCain could have handled that better.
Also, despite the possibility of picking up Penn., I think to much time was spent there. More time needed to be spent holding Ohio, Florida, Virginia. We don't have a chance without Ohio/Florida or similarly large EV states.
We now have to plan for the future, first 2010, then 2012. The Democrats own the Supreme court, the Congress, and the Presidency. I don't believe that they will do well. They either have to move to the middle thereby alienating the left, or, they have to govern from the left and alienate the middle.
Our biggest problem IMO is how do we neutralize the biased media that has stabbed America in the back?
Oh yeah.
He chose her too late to benefit from the money and enthusiasm she brought.
He also didn't give her the two- three months or so any good politician would need to prepare.
For 'surprises' like this to work we need to have the convention much earlier.
The thread originator just signed up. First posts are negativity...
Seeing a whole lot of these signed up in last few days or weeks and are here just to post red meat negativity.
Correct, but many here don't care about those facts. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/most_voters_made_up_their_minds_weeks_ago
Think of what you're saying here, especially in the context of the point that Krauthammer attempted to make.
You're saying that not enough conservatives and Republicans voted for them -- and yet the more conservative of the two (Palin) was the one who was a drag on the ticket?
If McCain's loss is mainly attributable to low turnout among conservatives/Replublicans, then HE was actually the drag on the ticket. His pathetic poll numbers before Palin's selection would be good evidence of this. Conservatives and Republicans simply weren't buying what this "maverick" (who had spent much of his career in the Senate screwing the Republican Part) was trying to sell them.
Charles will have to get with the program or we will just have to put him on ignore.
What is going on here? Its a full scale political campaign directed against Palin... coordinated from the Obama campaign.
If they keep this up I bet the Alaska Secession movement gets airborne really quick. I hope it does.
The ticket was the loser, mccain/palin actually only polled once ahead of obamma, and that was by only one point and for one week. "The week of September 8-14 McCain was ahead for the first time – but by only one point. Obama reclaimed a one-point lead the following week. Basically the race was tied going into the last six weeks of the campaign."http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/mccain_s_fortunes_fell_with_the_stock_market
If the MSM had VETTED Obama like they did Palin and Joe the Plumber McCain despite being who he is would have won in a landslide
That is the fact of this election and all the others we have had the last decades
It is a miracle the GOP has won anything with what our schools turn out and what constitutes the MSM
Welcome to FR Senior Chief. I couldn’t agree with you more. Thanks for the great post.
McCain’s bungling of the Lehman Bros collapse cost him the election. Rather than naming names of who really caused the Fannie Mae destruction he played Miss Congeniality and lost gracefully.
His biggest cheer of the campaign was the one day he took the gloves off and named Dodd, Frank and Obama having their hands in the cookie jar. Rather he acted like he was in the Sinate cloak room and let Bush take the blame. He was Palin’s ball and chain.
Pray for W, Saracuda and Our Troops
The left is weird and pathetic. They are trashing her via moles in our party because they are threatened by Palin’s authenticity. You would think they would focus on their empty suit, but instead they are still obsessed with Sarah. Reagan would support Sarah, enough said. Sarah is a Conservative and would make the choices we would make. That's what we need in Washington.
Really? I hadn't heard...
McCain’s problem is that he had to campaign on “change”, just like the new guy. And why would people choose OLD change with McCain when they could choose NEW change with Obama?
McCain suffered because George Bush sat there like a punching bag for eight years, never having the guts to stand up and defend himself as lie after lie after lie from the rats and their newsrooms went left unanswered. Bush’s unwillingness to stand up and fight was an eight-year slap in the face to his bewildered supporters, including me.
The result was that the rat candidate could successfully tie his opponent to the easily-smeared punching bag, Bush, and the Republican candidate had little choice but to distance himself from Bush. What, McCain was supposed to defend a man who refused for eight years to defend himself? This situation left McCain between a rock and a hard place.
So yes, Tuesday’s Republican slaughter was Bush’s fault. No joke.
Ironically, Bush defeated McCain in 2000 and now again in 2008.
Whew....
That said, McCain was the guy running for President, not Bush, and so maybe he SHOULD have defended, supported, and lifted Bush to the high heavens rather than "distance" himself. Maybe if Bush had been an ally, unleashed on the campaign trail the whole game would have changed completely. That would have taken some guts, but it could have worked because the rats greatly overestimated the general public's dislike of Bush, and exit polls showed that.
What a freaking mess.... And NOW look at the steaming pantload we have for a president-elect.
Was Medved opposed to the selection of Palin?
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