McCain was the worst candidate we could have had in such a circumstance, that’s for sure. But he wouldn’t even hit back on the stuff that he could have. Like gagging Palin when she brought up the terrorist ties that should have alarmed any patriot. It’s almost like he was told not to try to win it.
There was all the talk about needing the moderates, independents, undecideds, but he was wooing them and woefully failing in generating any enthusiasm. What lifted him out of the dung heap was when he chose Palin, because it energized conservatives. Trying to be Mr Nice Guy did nothing for him so it wasn’t politically expedient to gag her.
God knows he wasn’t too principled to hit Hayworth hard so why not Obama?
If McCain had even so much as allowed Palin to attack on Obama’s radical ties Obama still wouldn’t dare bring up the eligibility issue to use against McCain. So why wouldn’t he?
It just feels like there’s more to the story, especially given the submission by people who I think really do love this country. Dick Cheney? Clarence Thomas? Judge Carter? The argument the Obots have used is actually a valid one: Why have people who have spent a lifetime serving the country they love just rolled over on this issue? Of course, they try saying that it proves that the decisions made were right. It doesn’t. But the question itself is hard to answer, unless you believe they don’t really love their country. Or unless you believe they love their country but were forced to do the very thing they hate. In which case, they would probably draw a silly mustache on the whole scenario somehow so people would know they participated against their will.
I think that once Judge Carter had acted like he took the issue seriously, somebody had a talk with him and he knew his decision was going to have to stink, and that’s why he hired a clerk from Perkins-Coie before giving the stinky, 180-degree-turned-around decision he gave. It caused people to immediately say that something stunk about that whole situation - and to wonder why a man whose reputation was that of being fair and patriotic had switched personalities and stances so radically shortly after making an unethical hiring decision. It’s like he was willing to present himself as an unethical villain if that would scream to the world that something was wrong. The ethics violation could also possibly be a way to reverse the decision he felt he had to give.
I don’t know. I’m still mulling it over. But there are so many things that don’t add up. If it was just the Republican Party I’d probably chalk it up to the good ol’ boy system, you cover my axx and I’ll cover yours. But I don’t think that explains Cheney, Thomas, or Judge Carter, for instance.