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RUSH: Look, I don't want to spend a whole lot of time on the McCain campaign because it's the past. I got some e-mails and Mr. Snerdley said, "Is that all you're going to say about it, that it just proves the ineptitude of the McCain campaign?" I'll say a little bit more but it's the past. The thing about McCain that's more interesting to me than he lost is what I'm hearing from a lot of people, and that is, you know, the Democrats in the Senate right now are happy. They have 58 or 59 seats. Depending on what happens in the finals of the Stuart Smalley/Norm Coleman race, they can have 58 or 59 seats. Everybody says, "Well, whew! Whew! Boy, that means they don't have their 60 votes." Au contraire. You know who's going to get the 60 votes for Obama in the Senate? Do you know who's going to get the 60 votes for Harry Reid?
It will be John McCain. John McCain does not want his legacy to be that he lost the presidential race. He wants his legacy to be that he's a deal-maker. He wants his legacy to be that he walked across the aisle, that he's bipartisan, that he's bigger than life, blah, blah, blah. So I guarantee you, McCain will be the guy that shepherds wayward, liberal, Northeastern Republicans to vote with Democrats on some issues, some bills, in order to give the Democrats their filibuster-proof majority of 60 or more votes. Now, that's in the cards. I don't think there's any question about it. It's exactly who McCain is, and that's why he lost! Most Republicans perceived McCain as a Democrat. When you get right down to it, that's how he was viewed.
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What a total idiot for saying something like that. Mccain lost cause he lost his balls many years ago, no other reason.
OMG!!!!!!!!! ROFLOL All McPain has to do is look in the MIRROR!!!
At first they tried to blame Governor Palin and now they are trying to blame Rush.
McPain should have manned up for the race. No wait, we should have STOPPED McPain from taking the nomination. THE GOP does NOT have our best interests at heart and we have to take control of the local and state elections.
Mcain lost because he was afraid to attack the annointed one as it might have hurt BO’s feelings.
The thought of defending what McCain would’ve done if he were elected president doesn’t thrill me in the least and I don’t think he would’ve been substantially different from Obama on a number of issues.
So, thanks Rush!
Rick Davis should get an award for bullsh*t artistry. And should never be allowed to work in GOP or Conservative politics again.
The numbers don’t support McCain winning if only he got the same kind of Hispanic support that Bush got in 2004. Period. This year was going to suck for whoever the GOP candidate was, and it was going to be a very steep uphill battle. McCain actually showed a good uptick with the selection of Palin, but his numbers crashed when he decided to “suspend” his campaign and fly back to DC to “help” with the management of the financial meltdown. It made him look like an erratic, stuntsman and panderer ... and he never recovered the political center.
Man up McCain.
Wait just a durn minute....I thought McCain lost because of Governor Palin. Now it’s the Rush Limbaugh’s of the world? The only reason McCain received as many votes as he did was because of Gov. Palin and Rush Limbaugh. They tried to drag him across the finish line.
McShame ping.
I think Rush should have spent a little more time analyzing and focusing on the GOP candidates, rather than being mesmerized by Hillary Clinton, and we might actually have gotten a better candidate. I actually quit listening to him for awhile, because it was all Dems all the time. Since GOP candidates never get any decent press coverage, if Rush had given them a little more attention, we might have been able to get momentum behind a better one than McCain.
But once McCain was the GOP candidate, he lost for so many reasons that it’s certainly silly to “blame” Rush.
“but you look at the leadership John McCain gave which is counter to the direction that the party was headed,”
There’s the reason Republicans lost, and will continue to lose.
Gosh, I thought it was McCains support for Obama!
Reason #467 on why I am glad I voted for Chuck Baldwin.
Calling Rush a “nativist” is nothing but slander...If the pro-illegal/anti-American lobby wants to call Rush “nativist” for supporting Americans over illegals....then I can think of great terms to label pro-illegals...more than just my usual “Anti-American Bigot” term for the pro-illegal/anti-American crowd.
Rush’s reply was spot-on....McCain will be the 60th DNC vote in the Senate...and many conservatives wasted their 2008 votes on the liberal John McCain
Never another dime to any campaign that pays Rick Davis.
McCain should thank Sarah for the amount of votes he got. I had exited out of the race because I didn’t like him. I was not going to vote this year. Sarah got me back in the race and I voted for her not him. She had the balls not him. I was advancing her career not his. Rush had nothing to do with it.
Blaming McCain for “lack of balls”, not conservative enough, not campaigning enough, etc., etc. is utter nonsense.
McCain lost because he was on the Republican ticket.
There is no Republican who could have won last November.
It is a coward, and I never before thought this of John McCain, who blames his own failures and short-comings on other people.
McCain lost because of how he handled the bailout. He was in trouble before that, but that put the nail in his coffin.
