Obama fundraising didn’t make McCain pathetic, Johnny did that all by his lonesome.
PDS, as eternal as a peat bog fire.
McCain was the problem always was
I don’t think Palin cost McCain the election but I don’t think it was Obama’s fundraising that did it to McCain either. That Obama had more money only begs the question rather than provides the answer. Obama raised more funds because he was a more appealing candidate, generated more enthusiasm and delivered a more articulate message — regardless of whether we agree with it — than McCain to the public masses at the time.
BZZT wrong.
McCain LOST because he was only ever really motivated to beat the other Republicans in the primary.
McCain did not actually want to be president. He wanted to beat the other Republicans.
Once he did that, he didn’t care. McCain quit.
McCain beat his own campaign. Palin very nearly rescued it, despite McCain and his stupid staffers’ incompetence.
And he had Romney's Reptiles sabotaging the McCain campaign from within, and Romney's Gay Brigades trashing the McCain campaign all across the nation.
McCain was down more than 30 points before Palin joined the ticket, and she brought them even and then ahead for September 2008.
Romney's Reptiles worked non-stop to elect Obama, and have continued for the past three years attacking Sarah Palin.
I dont think they’re afraid of her. She has very limited political potential right now. I think they just enjoy making fun of her.
Don’t correct an obvious mistake with another obvious mistake, especially when there is nothing obscure about the solution. McCain and his campaign team lost the election. It’s better to admit it than it is to continue playing the fool.
Obama’s $$? I always thought it was the piece of crap named John McCrap
my only surprise is that McCain and Co. didn’t jump right on and say “Yeah, dang right, that dumb broad cost me the election...at least that’s what my daughter says...”
BS. His campaign was mediocre at best.
But he was the media's darling. They covered for his gaffes and they distorted his opponent's views.
The media invested all of its credibility in Obama's election and now they're 100% invested in his re-election.
IMO, a lot of McCain losing was because McCain is a dud. He generated no enthusiasm. He didn’t inspire. He was kissing Obama’s butt and chastising his supporters for questioning Obama. Chastising people for using Obama’s middle name Hussein. Who wants to support that kind of crap? Not to mention all the back stabbing he had done to Republicans over the years. Palin comes on the scene and gives the old coot’s campaign an injection, but it wasn’t enough because McCain was still a dud. Someone last night posted that McCain really didn’t want it. Just wanted the dollars for his Senate campaign. That’s an interesting idea that I hadn’t thought of before.
‘Game Change’ is dead wrong – that she was not the reason the Republicans lost the election............................................ Crock of feces, beyond dead wrong, she was the reason people came out to vote and kept McCain from being totally wiped out by a landslide vote. The left knows that too. Why are they still trying to destroy her? Because they are terrified of her, they know she represents “Not business as usual” in DC if she is ever elected. Its unfortunate the ignorant, voting public, are not capable of seeing it.
Truth be told, and I know that this is only my personal, anecdotal case, but I would not have even shown up at the polls for McCain if Palin had not been his running mate.
I would bet that he'd have lost by a much bigger margin without her.
The extreme money advantage helped Obama. McCain’s horribly run campaign helped Obama. The financial crisis and McCain’s reaction to it helped Obama. The so-called feel good idea of voting for the first AA president helped Obama. Bush fatigue and Obama’s “hope and change” helped. But I still don’t think that all of that would have saved Obama if the media had vetted him. He was able to get away with being as he put it a “blank slate” that people could complete according to their desires because the media was completely in the tank for him. They purposely didn’t do their job in making the American public aware of what Obama was really all about. If they had, the “blank slate” and the “hope and change” mantra flim-flam would not have worked. The generally low information voter was intentionally kept that way by the media.
let’s add some facts:
1. Palin boosted McCain into the lead until
2. McCain wimped out and lost the election
Sarah was who we voted for not McCain
She is the only reason the election was as close as it was.
McCain is the one person who could refute HBO’s premise, but of course, he wouldn’t. He is too egoistical to admit his own failure.
His campaign staff/advisers have his tacit approval to smear Palin. Not once has he defended her.
After the convention and Sarah’s speech, McCain shot ahead in the polls. Then came the media destruction of Sarah and McCain’s eagerness to quit the campaign to approve the first bailout - the rest was history.