Posted on 11/05/2008 5:27:12 PM PST by beagleone
I know I'm going to get flamed here by the staunch conservatives here who never liked John McCain, but I DID like the way he ran his campaign.
This was a crazy election that defies straightforward analysis. This was an election where the coal belt voted for a man who has promised to destroy the coal industry.
This was an election where Republicans and Conservatives are on the record for voting for the most liberal candidate the Democrats have ever put forth in my 38-year-old lifetime - giving their vote to a radical socialist over a moderate Republican with an exciting and dynamic Conservative running mate.
I agree with McCain when he said that he felt there was nothing more that he could have done to affect the outcome.
The country had made up its mind it was not going to support the Republican candidate, regardless of who that was. War hero, moderate, conservative, doesn't matter.
The base was sufficiently excited about the election - did you see those rallies? There WERE conservatives on board.
The turncoat Republicans and Conservatives who voted for Obama are the ones to blame - not McCain. Every vote they gave Obama were like two taken away from the Repubican ticket, and that is unforgivable.
McCain is a hero and an inspiration and he gave it his all - did you see him work his ass off out there? I sure did. So give the guy a break. And a little appreciation would be nice as well.
Thanks. Getting off my soapbox now.
In my opinion, we made the best run we could
with the sorriest candidate we could find.
I too am a total fan of Maverick. This was a tough election - even Schwarzeneeger would have had a tough time beating Obozo. Still, when that many people vote and you lose Indiana, Virginia, Florida, Colorado and New Mexico even having Sarah on the ticket didn’t end up really helping after all.
Hear hear. Well stated! $600 million fundraising advantage, $1.4 billion in MSM favorable coverage advantage. Financial crisis. Unpopular incumbent of same party. That’s a tough gig for anybody.
I hear ‘ya. I was afraid Obama would smash McCain to pieces.
It would have been a lot better if we hadn’t has to drag him toward the finish line.
Politically I always agreed with McCain. (I’m a moderate right-winger.) Unfortunately, to many, he had health/personality/age issues.
McCain is part of a dying breed: the patriotic warrior-statesman. The time that we needed a leader the most, people — especially women, minorities, youth, “different” types — rejected him for a pretty boy. This shows to me the frightening direction this country is headed.
I blame the people who voted for McRINO in the primaries.
A half-assed run with the second sorriest candidate. Slick Willard was THE sorriest, the Socialist backstabbing traitorous scum.
I am proud of John McCain for his devotion and incomparable service to his country.
After that, pffffftt!
You are clueless! A Conservative would have won! A Conservative wouldn't have said something as boneheaded and completly asinine stupidass as, "0bama would make a good President!" Trying to insult conservative supporters!
Rino's be gone, LOSERS!
Those two scumbags would've taken turns seeing who could out-Marxist the other.
“In my opinion, we made the best run we could
with the sorriest candidate we could find.”
That was not the best run to make. I mean does anyone even now know for sure what his message was? Most of it was don’t vote for that guy. And even then he refused to bring up a lot of the big issues on Obama. So he didn’t even go full bore on his main argument.
And some of his choices about how to spend time and money in the last two weeks made no sense. Nor did the fact that he never deployed Palin properly. His return to save the day in Washington on the bailout was also a failure. And he couldn’t even clean the lightweights clock in the debates.
He was a weak candidate who ran a weak campaign.
John McCain is a nice and honorable man who was thrust upon us by the media and Democrats as the suitable looser for Hillary.
It brings to mind the infamous quote: Losers talk about how the game was played while winners go home with a grin and **** the cheerleader.
“I blame the people who voted for McRINO in the primaries. “
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Amen, brother, amen.
So why didn't he try to show how the DemocRATs screwed up Fannie/Freddie-MAC?? uh....UHHHH
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