Posted on 02/02/2008 10:52:55 AM PST by wagglebee
Albert Einstein once said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. With that in mind, if John McCain wins the Republican presidential nomination, it might be appropriate to temporarily designate the site of the 2008 Republican convention an insane asylum.
Why?
Well, a Republican doesn't need to spend much time on a political analyst's couch before depressing memories of the 1996 presidential election – also known as the Bob Dole debacle – are dredged up. If you're old enough to remember that frightening experience, but still too traumatized to recall it, perhaps a brief history of those times will ease you into a more reflective state of mind.
Bob Dole lost a bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 1988. Like most Republicans before him, he patiently bided his time as the next nominee-in-waiting. In 1996, Dole faltered badly in early primaries, but thanks to favorable media coverage, the desire of many to reward a former soldier for his heroic service to country and polls showing Dole the strongest Republican candidate in a general election, his campaign was resurrected. Dole went on to win the Republican nomination.
Already past his 70th birthday, Dole would have been the oldest first-term president in the history of the country. He looked and sounded even older when juxtaposed on debate platforms next to a much younger and culturally in-tune Democrat. Age wasn't the only debate deficiency. Acerbic, poorly delivered quips endeared Dole to reporters and close associates but bombed outside the Washington, D.C., Beltway. Most often he was the only one awkwardly laughing at his own one-liners. His general communication skills and television presence paled in comparison to those of the Democratic candidate. He lost every debate.
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Exactly!
Nah, Bob Dole was much more conservative and likable than McCain. Plus he had much more of the base behind him. McCain is worse in every way.
McCain-Clinton, however, would be more like Dole-Dukakis and more of a toss-up. IMO.
Either Democrat will slaughter Romney, IMO.
McCain could win against either Dem.
I agree that Romney has ZERO chance to win. Absolutely ZERO chance.
"So why would anyone expect a different result?"
Why indeed.
Bob Dole passed pieces of guys like McCain in his stools.
Exactly..........
*Sigh*
Who says? The press? McCain is a disaster. You need a base to win and McCain doesn't have a base.
I’m not particularly fond of McCain but this article is utter BS. Pretty much what you’d expect from WND.
McCain isn’t running against a popular incumbent, as Dole was.
McCain has much more popular support than Dole.
There was no war on when Dole ran.
I would go on but there’s no point. Articles like this are just chum for the sharks.
I’ve been calling McCain “Dole II” for some time. This article articulates my reasons better than I could.
I agree, the very best thing that can happen is for Romney, McCain and Huckabee to split the delegates between now and the convention.
Thompson was basically everyone’s first or second choice, he would be the perfect candidate in a brokered convention.
Said it before will say it again ‘McCain will lose all 50 states”.
He doesn’t have the support of the conservative/republican base behind him, can’t win without that.
All his buddies in the press will turn on him. At some point when the press is throwing his inconsistancies or non conservative positions in his face, he’ll go into meltdown. The press will have the video of his little meltdown on the evening news everyday till election day. It’s gonna be ugly!!!!
>>McCain could win against either Dem.<<
No way, no how.
Not without serious voter fraud anyway.
If he is the nominee, I will be staying home. But then, I would have anyway. There’s really no point:
http://billstclair.com/lodge/Books101.shtml
“Who says? The press?”
The press and their almighty polls, which told us three months ago that Rudy was our only hope.
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