It wasn’t her fault he lost, but the theory that she could attract enough votes to beat Barack 0bama was tested, and it failed. By nearly 10 million votes and 10 points, no less. If she was the only thing making John McCain competitive, she sure didn’t do a good job. They lost in a certified landslide.
Perhaps if the race had been close, then Palin supporters could have some credibility to their claims. But it wasn’t. It wasn’t even close to being close. Either Palin can pull in the votes, or she can’t. People had to opportunity to choose her over 0bama, and they passed by the millions.
she was not at the top of the ticket!! she was not running against Nobama!! McCain was. Sorry but your theory is utterly rediculous and reasoning inherently flawed.
Was she running for president against Mr. Obama? Conventional wisdom says that the top of the ticket is what decides the winner, not the running mate. Given that, she still has much more executive experience than Obama does. Senator McCain’s suspending his campaign to fly back to Washington and then doing nothing substantial didn’t exactly inspire confidence, or have you already forgotten that fiasco? Being the standard-bearer is different than the VP nomination. BTW, who do you suggest for the nominee three years hence?
10 points is not a “landslide” and in the electoral college it was like the 8 point Clinton victory over Dole in 1996.
Nothing like the Reagan over Mondale 1984 or Johnson over Goldwater 1964 elections. Those were the real landslides.
“It wasn’t her fault he lost, but the theory that she could attract enough votes to beat Barack 0bama was tested, and it failed. By nearly 10 million votes and 10 points, no less. If she was the only thing making John McCain competitive, she sure didn’t do a good job. They lost in a certified landslide.”
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You forgot about the illegal millions the press let Barack wallow in, the corrupt support the press showered zero with, etc. etc. etc....how many points do you think that was worth. Now that we know what a war this is and now that the economy is in the toilet, we need strong candidates who aren’t going to sleep around like some 17 year old...
My thoughts exactly and I like her. I know plenty of Dems who would never vote for Palin, period. I also know plenty of Rep who still think she’s the problem with the party. If Palin can’t get the Republicans to vote for her then how is she to get the moderate Dems to vote for her so she has a chance of winning in 2012?
She doesn’t have the tools to do this.
Why did you round 7 points up to 10 points?
Reagan couldn’t even defeat an unpopular and Americas first and only, unelected President in the Republican Primary.
I mean he had a chance to prove he was viable and he couldn’t even convince his own party that he was a better choice then Nixon’s V.P. who barely fought the Democrats when they yanked funding from the South Vietnamese regime which resulted in America’s first lost war and started the snowball that resulted in over 2 million dead in Cambodia and throughout S.E. Asia.
And as we all know, he limped back to California, never to be heard from again.
Wait a minute...
Either Palin can pull in the votes, or she can’t.................................. Ya gotta be kidding. Did you attend any of the rallies before Mc Cain named a VP? They were pale and dull. As soon as Palin came into the picture, it was standing room only, and here, it was standing room outside the center for blocks. It went from a town hall with McCain to a stadium with Palin. She wasn’t running against Obama, she was bringing in votes for Mc Cain. If the NYT was backing Mc Cain you knew he was being set up as a Mondale.
I wasn’t going to vote for Mc Cain or Obama but when she showed up here and I saw the crowd’s reaction, I knew she was the best of the 3. (McCain. Obama and Biden) The only thing she has against her is the Democratic machine and the MSM. (includes Hollywood and the alphabet channels))
Or the poll numbers *before* the announcement of Palin as VP ?
Or the disastrous first bailout bill where McCain ran to Washington to help the GOP capitulate properly?
Cheers!
Ahem....
Sarah Palin wasn't running for president.
Those "millions" didn't pass Sarah up. They passed up McCain.
In fact, McCain wouldn't have gotten nearly the support he did, if she hadn't been his running mate.
I can't speak for anyone else but because of Sarah Palin, MCCain got two votes from my home...Without Sarah, MCCain would have gotten zero votes from my home...
Oh good grief! She was in the race for fewer than 6 weeks before the election! Many folks didn't have a clue who she was! You can't hang John McCain's loss on Sarah, and IIRC, That One didn't win by 10 points, it was more like 6, and with less than 53% of the total vote, I don't consider that a landslide.
People had to opportunity to choose her over 0bama, and they passed by the millions.
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And many millions more passed when offered your boy RINO Romney...
OOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Mitty is damaged goods...
Better not run him again...
You seem to have forgotten; she wasn’t running for President; she was running for Vice President.
Actually, Bernard Goldberg stated that the reason why Obama won was Bush’s popularity was low, the Iraq war became unpopular, and the economic problems.
The person who's going to beat Barak ("No taxes on anyone making under $250k") Obama is Barak Obama himself. In fact, I would say he's just about done already.
I can’t stand McCain. He’s a back stabbing certifiably insane man. Many feel the same way I do about him. Without Palin he would not have gotten most of our votes. In short we voted for Palin, not McCain.
“People had to opportunity to choose her over 0bama, and they passed by the millions.”
I disagree that the choice people made was between Palin and 0bama. That masses were swept up in a sugar high of “hope and change” without a clue as to what they mean for the country at large. McCain at the head of the ticket was an absolute turn-off for millions of voters. The man had no vision other than not being 0bama. And frankly, any differences between his and 0bama’s positions on immigration and cap-and-trade are indistinguishable.
The “win theme” for Sarah will be a conservative vision for America — broad themes for a positive, hopeful future based on what individual Americans (not GOVERNMENT) can accomplish. Americans and even some liberals want to believe their country is the greatest in the world and Sarah can restore that Reaganesque pride if she chooses to do so.