Gov. Palin "energized" the base...."Strawberries" McCain, was very fortune.
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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If not for Palin, McCain would have lost by stunning numbers. He is still 6mm votes behind Bush’s 04 totals, and Nobama is about 1mm above them. The bottom line was turnout, and if not for Palin, this would have been worse. Those “independents” for the “maverick” can be counted on one foot.
I’ve known “genius” types....they are usually “genius” in ONE area.....obviously Charles is in an area he knows little about.
Used to like Krauthammer. Now he can join Brit Hume, Fred Barnes, Bill Kristol, Michael Medved, and the rest of the neocons in hell.
Krauthammer needs to get away from the North East corner of the USA,
Charles, go to where we own guns and a Bible. Take a ride in a real live pickup and cug beer from a long neck bottle. Luckenbach Texas would be a good place to start.
I'm strongly in favor of eating, drinking, and breathing on a regular basis.
Sorry, Charles, McCain was the weakness on the ticket. He would have gotten nowhere without Palin. McCain and Bob Dole are the two weakest candidates fielded by Repubs in my lifetime.
The results from ohio, posted here today, says that is nothing more than a tall tail and spin you are trying to sell. No provable facts.
This is the silliest argument I've heard.
McCain flipped off the base from the beginning. The fact that he chose a conservative as his VP pick proves that the GOP knew the base was flipping him off right back.
Had he NOT picked Gov. Palin, the base would have stayed home in droves and McCain would have fared about as well as Mondale.
As the GOP continues to split between RINOs and Conservatives, those who trash Palin and her pick expose which side they are on. I hope CK isn't in that camp.
Krauthammer makes a valid point. He wasn’t critical of Palin herself but of the way her inexperience eliminated one of McCain’s arguments against Obama. There are more reasons McCain lost than you can count. It’s miraculous that he did as well as he did. He made his mistakes but the deck was totally, totally stacked against him.
Palin also turned out to be a major target of the Media and still is. Tonight on the ABC news they ran all of today’s stuff on Palin, and later on the show when they discussed what dog Obama should buy for his children they said ‘well maybe not a pit bull’ while showing a picture of Palin.
Obama’s presidency is going to be very interesting. As Tom Brokaw said on the Charlie Rose show the other day, ‘we really don’t know much about Obama’. Holy cow that’s a huge slam on his own media organization.
Remember, the core of the crisis was that banks had no commercial paper, no money to lend each other and businesses. If they got the money and are not lending it and business is still thriving, then obviously there was no crisis and Glenn Beck was strung along by the nose.
The biggest deciding factor was McCain never gave us Straight Talk and never named names. He failed to lead in the month of the Economic Crisis, and he under performed in the debates. So much opposition research and hardly any was used. Effectively, it was one fence sitting politician against another, and Obama won because he was slicker.
I agree. He should stick to the secular side of Conservatism.
I hate to say it Charles, but Juan sounded like the hick. He is a positively horrendous speaker, a terrible debater, a dope on the economy, and too old.
He did himself in by thinking he could even win the conservative vote after pissing in their wheaties. Seems like many of them stayed home because the knew Juan was the POTUS candidate.
Get with it Charles, maybe you are outdated too.
“usually” should be “sometimes”
And McCain is ready to go back to the senate, and be a pain in the rear of true conservatives. I predict he will be even more on the side of the rats, and more against the cause of conservatism; in his mind, he will make us pay for ‘not electing him’.
Time to treat Chuck as we would any other religious bigot.
Krauthammer may be right about the experience card being squandered, but she had experience as an executive that was never fully exploited by the McCain camp. That I will never understand. Failure to play to Palin’s strengths is a mystery.
I have seen at least six polls that show that Sarah Palin, who I like, just isn’t appreciated by the masses as much as she is by you and I.
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