Posted on 11/30/2013 12:34:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Bump
She is what made the medicine go down!!
I don’t know how many times I’ve said this, but the Dems and their MSM were hoping to crush McCain in a 49-1 state landslide. Palin ruined their hopes. They knew she did it and ever since they fear her, that’s why they beat down on her and continue to do so even today. She represented a fresh change and no one in DC wants that.
Great point.
Here's some of the story, it was short so I had to snip it up in order to be only half the words per the rules:
It's been debated for five years, and the conventional wisdom has generally concluded that Sarah Palin... hurt Sen. John McCain's chances to beat then-Sen. Barack Obama for the presidency with her outsized and controversial personality.I think that Katie Klonoscapi's first question to Palin after the election was did you hurt McCain's chances.... in the final analysis, the former Alaska governor helped McCain by attracting more voters to the ticket, crushing a mainstream media view.
...she attracted wider press attention than most prior veep candidates...
"Palin had a positive effect on McCain," according to the new Palin analysis in the authoritative Political Research Quarterly.
"Palin did not have a negative effect on McCain's voter share overall, nor did she result in eroded support for McCain among critical swing voters such as independents and moderates," the duo wrote.
Their analysis picked apart a recent report that Palin drove off voters and was uniquely divisive, claiming it was flawed.
And the media still parrots that, even thought she brought out a couple of million voters for McCain.
Of course ACORN and various other voter fraud tactics won the election for Obama.
Twice.
The "duo" spoken of in the article is two political science professors from Bradley University in Peoria, Ill who did the analysis.
Full story at link.
bttt
If Palin, Obozo, Carter and McLame were in the same room, she would be the only man.
She would be the only one worth anything that is for sure..
On balance, she didn’t hurt that ticket, and she hasn’t hurt the party. It’s amazing that anybody wants to argue this anymore.
It was no mistake. The Yacht Club members are very deliberate.
Amazing? You've seen the way the RiNO's skewer and vilify her. They want her politically dead, forever.
I voted for Sarah and the old coot.
McCain drove me nuts with his support of Obama during that campaign.
He beat himself by muzzling Sarah. She was his only chance and probably could have pulled it off if he hadn’t insisted on meeting spit in the face with a hanky, a smile, and a “my friend”...
-- for certain sure Romney was so far over the line that at least two life-long Republicans personally known to me, who had heretofore NEVER declined a Republican on any ballot, one in 35-plus years of voting and the other in well over 50 years of voting, refused to vote for Romney -- it was THE FIRST TIME THEY HAD EVER DECLINED A REPUBLICAN ON ANY BALLOT OVER MANY DECADES OF VOTING.
McCain (via Palin) got both those votes four years earlier; Romney was too much. I think the claim/data that Romney got more votes than McCain is BULLSH*T. Romney was an even worse choice than McCain, and he DESERVED TO LOSE. Therefore, he DID. And rightly so.
I voted for Sarah.
I hoped the old Manchurian Candidate would sod off in his term, and she would become President.
Sarah was worth at least 10 million votes for McDogPoop.
Sarah will be President No. 45.
She has more testicular fortitude than the entire GOP-E.
I keep saying Ted Cruz will be the first to endorse a Palin presidential run in 2016!
McCain would have suspended his campaign and held a national townhall to talk about what a great guy the opponent was if he had gotten too far ahead.
I think he was looking for a way to lose.
NO ONE wanted a McCain sign or bumper sticker at our local GOP HQ, until he picked Palin! Then we ran out constantly
Sarah made voting for McCain palatable, at least temporarily
Should have been Sarah alone
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