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Posted on 11/27/2008 7:37:16 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Republican Sen. John McCain made three "big" mistakes while campaigning.
Add those to the fact he had to follow in the footsteps of an unpopular president, and the Democrats were almost guaranteed a win Nov. 4, a political analyst said Friday.
"It was a very unusual election, and almost all trend lines said it would be a Democratic victory," said Jerry Mayer, associate professor at George Mason University's School of Public Policy and director of the master's of public policy program. "It was not your year, Republicans."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
LOL.
I am the hard right - he appealed to me not at all - I voted Keyes
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McCain is a big mistake. |
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How to become a much-quoted authority: Tell the press what it wants to hear.
Darn, I hate it when that happens. (/sarc).
yeah, there’s some kind of loop evident there.
maybe you and Mr. Keyes will get one of the things you want—reparations.
What a complete pantload. I can’t believe this guy is a political analyst.
“Although the Alaska governor was well received at first, the excitement around her died down after it became apparent that she “knew nothing.”
I don’t know - if McLame really wanted a running mate who “knew nothing”, he could’ve picked Jennifer Buske.
“How to become a much-quoted authority: Tell the press what it wants to hear.”
This is all boiled down to the “GOP needs to move left” meme.
Another evidence of incompetence intellect in an alledgedly “name” university!
I must have missed that hard right appeal when Obama outflanked McCain to the right on tax cuts.
That is BIG when it comes to McCain losing. A Marxist sold the tax cuts better than a Republican. LOL!!! Now that’s “history.”
Amnesty, campaign finance reform, buddy-buddy with Ted Kennedy, dissing POW and MIA families, and on and on. This is hard right, Jerry Mayer? Where did this fruitcake come from?
I have relative who are moderates and they found him too much to the left.
What a load of dung! McCain lost because he did not have the $600 million that Obama had, to buy the election.
This guy is a leftist moron. Joe Lieberman? yeah, Mr. Exitement out there on the campaign trail. McCain hard right? LOL! Sarah Palin pick the worst decision ever by a presidential candidate? Guess he’s too young to remember when McGovern picked Eagleton, had the news come out that Eagle had electroshock treatments, said he would stand by Eagleton, then threw him under the bus.
Another “expert” leftist professor - what a freaking joke.
- JP
How did Jerry Mayer ever his job? After this, Mr. Mayer should be in the unemployment line.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
and the entire MSM in the tank for him
But it really was Bush and the bailout that did it in the end. And Cheney’s last minute endorsement...love the guy but it was the last thing we needed.
So another anointed associate professor speaketh from on high. Forsooth and with alacrity we shall surely heed his words of wisdom.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“This guy is a leftist moron. Joe Lieberman? yeah, Mr. Exitement out there on the campaign trail.”
perhaps one could make an argument for Rudy but Lieberman wasn’t just a moderate; he was also another old white guy.
Har, har, har.
I read two words. Washington Post.
Next.
not honorable to conservatives on principle. Taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for every loser that wants to run.
Yea he leaned hard right when he told supporters he was mad for them, but I did not see it. I am a die-hard conservative and the only reason I voted for McSame was Sarah and that’s all I got to say!
He never appealed to the right or conservative majority of the party and if he hadn’t picked Sarah he would have lost every state!
She is the samartest and most conservative of all 4 democrat and Republican candidates!
This fellow is awfully hard on Palin for “knowing nothing” and yet he gives His Excellency a pass!
And he says that Liebermann was qualified to be President, (true) but gives His Excellency a pass!
How does this article get any credibility?
“Another evidence of incompetence intellect in an alledgedly “name” university!”
Just FYI, the “allegedly ‘name’ university” has one of the best and perhaps only conservative/libertarian leaning economics departments in the USA. Two of its econ professors have won the Nobel Prize in Economics within recent memory, and another, Walter Williams, is rather well known.
So who’s an ignoramus?
Mister Keyes’ actual reparations proposal required a genealogy to exclude anyone who wasn’t descended from actual American slaves from getting a check, and another to see who was descended from an actual slave owner to see who owed such monies.
I could certainly live with the consternation implementing his proposal would engender amongst the Jesse Jackson crowd.
Especially since my ancestors (west Asian Slavs, Scotch, and Irish) didn’t come over until the 1880s.
So while I didn’t really think the whole thing was necessary, I can see where my immunity from any chance of having had to participate may have made the proposal less odious to me than to others.
McCain received 59 million votes with Palin on the ticket. Imagine how many votes McCain would receive if Leiberman was picked as Veep. Nuff said.
Hey Skippy, McCain was beat by the liberal media and ignorant fools.
He lost, he will not be the president, it is over.
I know the third party loons would rather keep reliving the 08 election so as not to attack Obama who we will be dealing with the next four years.
The stupidest people in the world by definition are political scientists.
Still, the perfesser is off his rocker with the beltway affliction in re Palin. Palin was McCain's greatest tactical success.
Attack this! McCain and his gang of RINOs are openly working for Obama now.
Huh... So much for my relatively high opinion of George Mason University.
I know he’s only an “associate professor” (you wonder how many rocks the Washington Post had to kick over to find this guy) but it is disappointing that GMU would hire a pantload like Mayer in the first place. “Hard right”? Sarah Palin? Well, like they say, opinions are like a-holes and a-holes have opinions.
Or you have the third party loons who share anti war, legalize drugs, amnesty, against homeland security, 9/11 Truthers all Obama lemmings
The Washington ComPost is HARDLY the organ for choice advice to the GOP and my guess is this professor AND his University were in the forefront of Obama-proskenesis.
Lieberman couldnt even win FL for Gore and he would have won it for McCain? Sure.
I guess Joe would have prevented the 30 pt swing in the hispanic vote and the 15 pt swing in the black vote that won the state for Obama. Please.
Even if Joe did help win FL, he wouldn’t have helped at all in VA, NC, CO, NV, NM, OH or any of the other states, so McCain maybe loses with 195 EVs instead of 174, big deal.
PA? Jews make up 1% of the vote in PA and McCain lost by 11 pts. Somehow I doubt the Jewish vote was really where he messed up there.
Just more attempts to discredit Palin. They want to totally ruin any future chances. Really though, it all depends on how Obama does. If he does well, or even average, he’ll win rather comfortably in 2012 and we’ll see what happens in 2016. If he screws up like Carter or Bush41 did in their first terms, Palin or whoever the GOP nominee is will have a very good shot, just as Reagan and Clinton did when they won.
This is the only guy on the cutting edge of hindsight who gets it wrong.
if obama balances the budget without raising taxes he’ll do well but I just don’t see that happening.
The Washpost idiots can’t even spell the Dem lover’s name LOL!
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The federal government has no business in the issue of drugs. Read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights (specifically the 10th Amendment).
Amnesty!? Is this is a joke? None of us here want amnesty. GWB and McCain on the other hand...
Against Homeland Security; as in we’d rather protect our borders than those of Iraq? That sure is against Homeland Security!
9/11 truthers... where have we advocated that it was all a conspiracy?
Bob Barr for amnesty, a global warmer, ACLU employee
Barr, Paul, Baldwin, etc. all 9/11 Truthers
The list goes on.
McCain leaned hard right? Who knew? Musta leaned while no one was looking but snapped back to a comfortable left, right?
The libs voted for Obama even though it was apparent that he knew nothing.
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