It was a terrible idea to muzzle Sarah Palin. Not only did it lose the election but, now that we have learned about it, the GOPe will have hell to pay.
For the sole purpose of getting trounced by any or all Dem nominees back in ought-eight...
He was his own electoral tragedy--
....turnkey convenience for the left...
And the GOP fell for it... of course---
Even worse...
Go figure...
A damned silly question. If our side had allowed itself to bring up a subject so germane to the election as his associations with racists and terrorists, things might have turned out differently.
Of course, that would have meant a President McCain, which would have been bad, but also would have meant Vice President Palin, which would have been good.
The republican party will do the same thing to their candidate in 2016. It will be off limits to talk about Hillary’s sordid past and 3 decades of lying on every subject imaginable.
Attacking the opposing presidential candidate is the traditional job of the VP nominee
The McCain campaign prevented Sarah Palin from discussing any substantive issues. She was expected to merely parrot McCain's weak and shallow talking points and praise McCain as a great hero and patriot.
At the same time McCain's staff undertook a deliberate effort to trash Sarah Palin in the media.
Sarah campaigned for McCain in Arizona in the Senate primary. McCain has shown no loyalty or gratitude to Sarah whatsoever.
I wish Sarah would call out McCain for what he is. I wish she would tell America that he is a liar and traitor.
Ping
The point of this question is to achieve what . . . . ..???? Have we not learned the folly of selecting candidates for President that think it bad form to lob meaningful criticisms against their opponents.
So sad . . .
Either loser Steve Schmidt is the stupidest strategist ever or he’s a demmunist party plant.
We should have ran full tilt on Rev Wright and ALL Obama`s radical friends and views. I said it at the time as did millions of us
Funny to ask the question now.... But yes if the airwaves had been bombarded with ads of Rev Wright, I think it would have made the difference
Politicians dream of scandals like this to run against, it was placed in our lap and we said no thanks
McCain should also have not yelled at his supporters when they yelled things about Obama
The more I think of this, the more I believe that McCain was intended to lose and they chose Palin as a running mate in an effort to tarnish her image so that she could not run at a later time, having been also branded a “loser.”
I think the entire idea of associating with McCain, while it seemed like a good thing at the time, was a big mistake for Palin.
Nevertheless, she can overcome it if enough of us care and support her. Keep her out of entangling alliances with the RINOs, though.
She needs money and organization - she has the idea thing down pat, I believe.
I’m not even sure how much McCain had to do with it. McCain had his mysterious “handlers,” and he did whatever they told him to do.
The two guys who were given the job of handling Sarah were lent to the McCain campaign by Mitt Romney. So, their purpose may have been to ensure that McCain lost, to prepare the way for Romney’s next try.
In any case, there’s not much doubt about the fact that when McCain chose Sarah Palin to be his VP, it gave his numbers a big bounce. The high point of his campaign was the nomination celebration, when Sarah was allowed to give her one and only speech to a national audience, without a muzzle on and two handlers handcuffed to her ankles.
Seeing as how it resulted in a loss, I would say "no!"