Posted on 11/06/2008 10:21:06 PM PST by bobyuckles
Sean Hannitty endorsed Arnold Schwarzenegger for California Governor; a man who is a die hard promoter of child-killing by abortion, someone who will not defend the sacrament of marriage, and a man who wants to destroy our Second Amendment rights.
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Did he really endorse Arnold?
Yes, he did.
Arnie would still be a nobody crappy actor if it hadn’t been for Rove and Wilson stinking up the primary and a bunch of stupid voters that voted only on the basis of his movies.
Did he really endorse Arnold?
Bullshiite.
Sean is an essential part of the conservative movement. I hate when he gets slammed here. No one is perfect. Everyone has faults. Sean’s faults in no way affect his ability to do what he does best. He does not shy away from hard work, bold truthtelling to one of the largest, most ideologically mixed audiences conservatives could ever hope for, and steadfast loyalty. He is also extremely articulate. He is a treasure on our side, whether we always choose listen to him or not. He gets it, and he’s doing good work.
Use of the internet for organizing and fundraising. Howard Dean got the last laugh.
Control of the media.
Locking in key dem/lib players very early on that froze out the Clinton's and their threat of crossovers.
Getting those groups that feel disenfranchised to actually go vote.
Superior event organizing and advertising.
Most of all, crafting the sales pitch and staying on message. Biden was a mistake that they never got tagged with, their themes were so strong.
Lastly, great luck. I have been tracking every major poll in PA for months. Obama was losing until the bail-out. McCain fumbled it badly but still recovered and was beating Obama badly in all the polls but ran out of time and gas.
There was a remarkable complete change of poll direction favoring Obama on the last two days.
McCain really was so close and was tracking to win but the critical last two days of the campaign, he went flat and couldn't close the deal.
Really, this campaign was much less about ideology than it was about management, articulation and missed opportunities.
Again, beliefs are irrelevant if you don't win. McCain never had a campaign staff that assumed they would win and acted accordingly.
The first campaign strategy meeting should have described: "When we beat Obama it will be because of: a, b, c, d, e, f ........"
Instead we have these political autopsies.
“but he’s a stalwart, he’s out there every day fighting the fight. “
Hannity was not fighting for Conservatives. He was fighting for the Republican party and against Obama, but by no means was he fighting for Conservatives. He crapped all over Huckabee and stood for Giuliani.
” Sean Hannity was the ONLY one who was getting ANY of the negative facts about Obama into the mainstream media. Sean truly showed himself to be a bulldog without lipstick, a true hockey player, bold and brave and going where no other media person dared go with all of the info that one would think would be damaging to any other Presidential candidate.
I’d like to thank Sean deeply for trying. Sadly, it appears that even if Sean had unearthed a video of Obama removing a dead boy from his bed, Obama still would have won the election.
Sean is vastly underrated as a very important part of our team. He’s got heart and he is brave. And he is on mainstream media and dares say what goes as poop in the punchbowl on there and lives. “
Count me with you. He pushed to a degree that others wouldn’t even touch.
If not for Hannity we would have taken a worse beaten...
...doubt it...you really think Hannity convinced anybody who wasn’t already an Obama hating Seanbot to vote McCain?..
if anything, his verbal hystrionics on his media outlets annoyed people, who then tuned into O’Reilly or someone else less bizarre to get a fix on where the political landscape was trending...and thus cast their own votes.
Just because Sean shouts a lot, doesn’t mean he’s particularly effective...I suggest you listen to Michael Medved, or Dennis Prager, to get a real feel for political insight...
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