Posted on 11/05/2008 1:48:17 AM PST by indiana_gop
John McCain's incoherent, C- campaign did not deserve to win the Presidency this year. On the other hand, America doesn't deserve the punishment an Obama presidency is about to inflict upon us. Unfortunately, as a great Democrat once said: Life isn't fair.
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Well, why the hell did we throw him up in the primaries??? Why do we end up nominating these losers? We had only spent years bashing McCain as the RINO he is. This was a worse candidate than Dole in a year that would have been tough for Republicans even with Ronald Reagan running.
Duncan Hunter was far more conservative. Tom Tancredo was far more conservative. Ron Paul was far more conservative and had a youth movement going. Fred Thompson was far more conservative and more charismatic. Even Mitt Romney was sort of, kind of, maybe more conservative. And who do we choose, of ALL people? John Mc-flippin’-Cain!!!
Before the American Thinker starts explaining to us; shouldn’t they take a really big look at the fact that we conservatives did not elect John McCain as our candidate. He was thrown at us, on top us, in the fact at us as the only alternative.
Expalin that, American Thinker.
author nails it. the only alternative at this point is to become a Democrat and reform that party. To paraphrase Reagan,
“I didn’t leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left me!”
But if I recall correctly, McCain was nominated by liberal Republican voters and democrats in open primary states. He was not nominated by conservatives. Blame the open primary system that allows democrats to vote in republican primaries. Also, you can blame wishy-washy moderate-to-liberal Republican voters in the northeast, i.e. New Hampshire.
But if I recall correctly, McCain was nominated by liberal Republican voters and democrats in open primary states. He was not nominated by conservatives. Blame the open primary system that allows democrats to vote in republican primaries. Also, you can blame wishy-washy moderate-to-liberal Republican voters in the northeast, i.e. New Hampshire.
I don’t know that I’m ready to abandon the Republican Party yet. There definitely needs to be a change in leadership, from the top down, though.
Winning the election in 2012 is simple all we
need is a African American and and a party
with no values.
agreed but how are they going to do that when the same idiots are running the party? Heck, those morons in AK voted again for Stevens!!! Maybe when that crook dies, Palin will take his place and, at least, be one conservative in the Senate where most of the Pubes are spineless dweebs.
And she’ll need to be in there to kick the ass of AL Fricken who looks like the other mindless morons of MN have elected to replace RINO Norm Coleman.
There were many ‘conservatives’, but they represented different factions of the party. None of them was strong enough to stand out in the crowd, nor was any of them charismatic enough to attract people from other factions. At the end, we ended up with McCain. McCain is not to be blamed. Conservatives who couldn’t line up behind one candidate are. Even with open primaries, if they could actually set aside their differences to be behind 1-2 two ‘conservative candidates’, McCain could have lost.
Many of us pointed out time after time we need a leader; not a mediator.
Agree. All of us jumped on board with him as we had to. He is not a leader, can’t communicate, yellow teeth, can’t run a campaign, runs terrible ads, didn’t really offer anything such as new tax code extra..oh well...
The change needs to start with the party organizational leadership(RNC), and go down from there. Who’s is the one to do it,I don’t know. I’d love to see Newt running the RNC, because his days as an elected office holder are done. I think Mike Pence is the obvious leader as far as the GOP in the House. The Senate is, I agree in pretty bad shape as far as conservatives. I like your idea of Palin being in the Senate, maybe when Stevens goes to jail. I guess I think it’s better to reform our own party from within, rather than go to another. It will definitely take time, and it won’t be done by 2012, but it can be done.
Yep.
We turned off all media.
So did McCain Lose the election. For sure?
No one seems to be able to say yes or no.
don’t know if this was posted, but if not, feel free to post it. posting on here is becoming a PITA.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122585703357500345.html
Its very hard to win elections when the party faithful who usually donate the money and do the GOTV and whatnot hate your guts and can barely be persuaded that your not a closet democrat.
If the choice is between Democrat and Democrat-lite why not go for the real deal. We can never win if it comes down to who will hand out the richest swag bag.
McCain was a looser from day one which is why the DNC and media did everything they could to foster him on us. The RNC should consider itself warned: In 2012 we will be forcing the conservative dream candidate on you and God help any rino that gets in the way. Its brass knuckle time.
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