[DocT111]

Amen - if Sarah wasn't on the ticket, McCain would have only carried AZ.

[gunnyg]

related....

http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2008/11/06/comrade-barak-obama-is-not-americas-next-president-by-devvy/

[nralife]

See my new tagline.

[The Phantom FReeper]

The RINOs that infested the McCain Campaign know very well that people weren’t voting for McCain, but voting for Palin. They resent this. And since they can’t look at themselves in the mirror and admit their failures, they are looking for a convenient scapegoat.

[Billg64]

He would not have had my vote!

[Safetgiver]

The search for someone to blame for John McCain’s defeat...How about his “esteemed colleague” way of thinking, McCain- Feingold, McCain- Lieberman and his reaching across the aisle?

[P8riot]

McCain wasn’t the standard bearer that conservatives wanted. My opinion is that if Gov. Palin was at the top of the ticket all along things would be a helluva lot different today.

[reasonisfaith]

“True, she turned out not to be the magic bullet Republicans had hoped for.”

“Moreover, McCain & Co. knew there was a risk with Palin”

These two sentences are really stupid. The article reads like another hit on Palin meant to look otherwise.

[southernindymom]

So true, I would not have been able to vote for him, if not for her. Maybe she’ll run in 2012, if the country is still having elections then..

[Bernard]

True, she turned out not to be the magic bullet Republicans had hoped for.

And John McCain is not the magic six-shooter he advertised himself to be. Without Sarah Palin, Mccain loses by 15-20%.

Even worse, now he gets to go back to the Senate and come up with more crap legislation when he reaches across the aisle to all his friends in the Democrat party.

Too bad he doesn't consider conservatives to be part of his base.

[TommyDale]

Steve Doocey on “Fox & Friends” just hit the nail on the head.
He suggested that the Republicans who don’t like Palin are “kneecapping” her to stop her before she becomes the front runner for 2012.

The McCain staffers who are spreading this garbage about Sarah Palin deserve to be out of work. Imagine what the White House would have been like with these slimeballs there?

If a former McCain staffer applies for a job with me, he/she will be summarily rejected.

[wolfcreek]

Dear John,

Go back to looking for those Independents and Libs you so charish. Conservatives have had it with you.

I don’t know why you had to drag a fine woman like Sarah Palin into this mess but, maybe she can shed you and your ilk for a run in 2012.

FUVM, Former Republican.

[G.Mason]

The RINO Party needs purging.

McCain needs to be put out to a pasture, (preferably an illegal immigrant pasture) given flatulence pills so as not to harm his environment, given a few Democrat Party buds to slobber over and forgotten about.

[Right Wing Assault]

True, she turned out not to be the magic bullet Republicans had hoped for.

She WAS the magic bullet, but meek, humble, inoffensive, bi-partisan John McCain was the anti-magic bullet and they canceled each other.

[Right Wing Assault]

Also, John, trying to help out the illegals really got you traction with the Hispanics, eh? Stabbed in the back again? You must have to buy a lot of new suit coats.

[nathanbedford]

The problem was not that McCain forfeited the thrust of his argument that Obama was unprepared and unready for office, the problem was that McCain missed the entire thrust of the election. The election was never going to turn on Obama's readiness, he was utterly bulletproof on almost every issue, certainly that one.

So long as the issue was Obama's experience, all Obama had to do to win was to show up at the debates and walk and talk like a president. This was so because it was a Democrat' s year. But mostly it was so because the nation was in the grip of the neuroses in which too many people wanted to put a black man in the Oval Office and too many others were operating out of paroxysms of hatred for George Bush.

As I argued countless times before the debates, to win, McCain had to morally destroy Obama. This McCain could not do so long as he confined his attacks to Obama's experience level and took Obama's or associations and radicalism off the table.

For all her alleged lack of sophistication, Sarah Palin seems to have sensed this and she alone-evidently contrary to the wishes of McCain and her handlers-took on Obama for his radicalism.

McCain simply failed to get it.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

It was the late-added presence of SARAH which energized an otherwise moribund and apathetic conservative voting base.

It was SARAH who drew record-shattering crowds, everywhere she went on behalf of a sour and ungrateful McCain campaign.

Friendly little word of warning to any/all RINOs out there reading this, and thinking about standing in the way between this woman and the conservative base that adores her, anytime during the next four years:

You're expendable to us. SHE isn't.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

There are big time political agendas at work right now out in the MSM and on this very forum in trying to bury Governor Palin, or at least damage her enough so that she cannot run in 2012. Primarily, it is the Romneybots who are out to get her, but I noted last night that there are some Jindal trolls too who want to take her out for good.

See here for starters:

Vanity: Fox News Says Palin Did Not Know Africa Was Continent, Not Country

[wny]

In retrospect, I think McCain is too stupid or naive to be President. He believed the media was his friend. They’ve adored him as long as he was poking Bush in the eye and dumping on his own party. He was a fool to think they wouldn’t turn on him. It was obvious to everybody – except McCain and his campaign staff – that the Obama campaign and the MSM where one-and-the-same. He realized much to late that they were out to destroy him. If he’s even figured it out by now.

And now these same clueless fools want to cling to the delusional notin that Palin lost it for them!

You can’t win running against your own party. There was simply no enthusiasm there before Palin, his best and only great move. McCain received 55 million votes. Ten million of those Republicans wouldn’t have crossed the street to shake his hand. Had he picked some moderate-RINO, acceptable to the MSM, he’d have lost by 20 points instead of 6.

These cowards can't admit they ran a horrible campaign and lost a winnable race. Disgusting.

McCain should publicly condemn these hacks (much like he condemed anyone who criticized Obie on his behalf), then I lose whatever respect I had for the man.

[Eddie01]

John McCain’s debate performances were awful.

He missed every chance to hit it out of the park.

Instead.

“I know how to reach across the aile and get things done”, “I have a track record”, “I’ve done that my friends”, I’VE DONE THAT!”

BTW: Brit Humes all star panel, who embraced McCain and turned their noses up at Hunter, Thompson will never have the opportunity to steal another momement of my attention.

[Houghton M.]

Congressional conservative Republicans need to step up to the plate NOW and defend Palin big-time. Jindal needs to get into the act and defend her, BIG-TIME, NOW. They need to read the riot act to the RINOs—tell them that RINOism ruined McCain and they better admit it now or the same self-delusion will kill Republicans the next time.

Romney needs to work with Palin and Jindal and Congressional Conservatives to prove his bona fides; if it’s his people who are behind the Palin-bashing he needs to put a stop to it. He has no chance of any role if he lets this continue. He can’t succeed by muscling her aside. The struggle is between RINOs and conservatives and there’s no place in the middle between them. If he lets his people bash her, then his only strength lies with the RINOs and he has too many competitors for king of the hill among them to lead the party from that side of things. And I would assume he’s smart enough to know that. He gains nothing by trying to kneecap Palin.

Therefore, I want some hard evidence that the Palin bashing is coming from Romney before I take it as gospel truth. The Romney haters in the party are also capable of disseminating disinformation. Can we say H-u-c-k-a-b-e-e? There are other people who gain by trying to shove Palin out of the way. Run down the entire cui bono list first before believing every anonymous explanation of just who is pulling which strings behind the scenes.