Bzzzzzzt. Not true. McCain and Romney coverage was similar.
It was Duncan Hunter and the conservatives who GOT NO COVERAGE.
All GOP candidates were both dwarfed by Obama and Clintons.
Facts are difficult things for cultists, right?
Posted on 07/23/2008 5:33:00 PM PDT by JRochelle
You've probably heard the story about the tycoon who wanted to bring out a new kind of dog food.
He spent lavishly. He hired the best marketing person, the top PR firm, the best ad agency, the No. 1 packaging expert, the most powerful distributor -- but the sales were flat after six months.
He summoned his consultants to a meeting and asked why the food wasn't selling. "The dogs won't eat it," was the answer that came back.
And so it is with Mitt Romney. Despite outspending his rivals by huge margins throughout the primaries, the dogs won't eat it. He lost Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida and California. The only primaries he won were in Michigan, where Dad was governor; LDS states; and a few states on Super Tuesday in which his California-obsessed rivals couldn't spare the cash to advertise. Only John Connolly in 1968 had a worse cash-to-delegates ratio.
And John McCain rightly did not like Romney's tactics during the primaries. Using his gigantic money advantage to dominate television, he seized early leads in virtually all of the primary states, only to lose them later on. And, when they started slipping away, he resorted to unfair, distorted, scorched-earth negative ads, betting that his opponents couldn't afford to spend enough for the truth to catch up to his charges.
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Yeah, just like McCain-Feingold. I think money is part of political free speech. All we need is transparency. I find it amusing that McCain is bleating about the fact that Obama rejected public financiing. McCain is having a hard time raising money, Obama isn't.
Romney placed 4th in SC!
And you say if it weren’t for Huckabee Romney would have won?
LOLOLOL
Should he just not bring it up?
McCain is having a hard time raising money, Obama isn’t.
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A limit on spending would make that fair...
Romney spent about $100 million and only got a few bigoted supporters
The GOP's decline in MA mirrors the fall of the GOP throughout the Northeast. A lot of the change has to do with demographics. In 2006, the Reps in Congress from the Northeast were almost wiped out continuing an ongoing trend over the past decade. The Northeast is very liberal, which is why many of the remaining Reps are "moderates" or RINOs. That is just a political reality.
Never say never. Do you think McCain will beat Obama?
“From day one this election has been about vote splitting.”
That’s definitely the way it turned out, but I have no idea if there was any guiding hand behind any of it, except maybe Huckabee was stalking for McCain part way into the primaries.
But when there are no runoffs in these primary votes, a race will four or five fairly strong candidates is almost guaranteed to split the vote many ways and give us a nominee who received barely 40% of the vote, and some chunk of that from crossovers.
Not only the media, but also Europeans in general strongly support Obama.
It’s pathologically sick and twisted... Every single VP thread is poisoned by the same few people spewing their garbage... It’s a disgrace.
“But it was McCain’s fault!”
You might well be right. I’ve watched McCain since the POW-MIAS hearings around 1993, and there is no one he won’t stab in the back, and no lie he won’t tell.
McCain received only 33% of the vote. Huckabee 30% with Thompson getting 16% and Romney 15%. Romney did very little campaigning in SC. I can tell you after spending four days in SC travelling all over the state following mostly McCain and to some extent Huckabee, Romney had more of chance of picking up Huckabee’s votes than McCain. 67% of the vote went to candidates other than McCain.
You folks keep bringing up those comments, yet they’re not attributable to anyone... Hell, who knows, they may have been made up by the H camp... It’s pathetic
There are consequences when you nominate the party's maverick as your standard bearer. One of those consequences is less contributions from the base as well as getting volunteers for the campaign. I am not contributing any money to McCain nor will I do any volunteer work for him. I will help the other Rep candidates down ballot but not McCain. I am not alone.
Yes McCain will win. Unless he croaks before then.
The more I see of Obama, the more I see that he will be lucky to win 45% of the vote.
Bzzzzzzt. Not true. McCain and Romney coverage was similar.
It was Duncan Hunter and the conservatives who GOT NO COVERAGE.
All GOP candidates were both dwarfed by Obama and Clintons.
Facts are difficult things for cultists, right?
Well I’m not going to give either.
What Obama did by not taking public financing is tell us all ‘do as I say, not as I do.’
He is arrogant and condesending.
I am no big fan of McCain. I saw him as the lesser of the four RINOs, Rudy McRombee. My guy Fred was the best but he didn’t want it bad enough.
Denial just ain’t a river in Egypt. I remember all of this happy talk before the 2006 midterms about how many seats we were going to pick up. The reality is that the Dems have the money, energy, and turnout to trounce McCain. They turned out two to three to one in the primaries compared to Reps. And the length of the primary season that involved almost every state, has put in place a network that will mobilize voter turnout. Unless some damaging personal information comes out about Obama, he is going to win big.
Sorry, in SC, if Huckabee weren’t in it his voters would have went to Fred.
But thats just not how it happened. Huckabee did have a right to run didn’t he? I just don’t see the sense in saying if someone else wern’t in it, my guy would have won.
Pointless.
Apparently, also some of the cultist RomneyBOTs who have threatened
on FReeRepublic to vote for Obama if Sen.McCain does not lower himself to pick their Myth.
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