Posted on 11/06/2008 10:45:00 AM PST by mbraynard
News has been circulating around GOP insiders for weeks that McCain campaign honchos Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt were planning to blame Sarah Palin for McCain’s loss. This was expected to be an effort to punt the blame for their own failures to the side of the ticket that was most popular with the base, attracted the largest rally crowds, and scared the living bejeepers out of the opposing party.
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Amen to that one!
All this backbiting is completely unproductive. I think the principal lesson we must learn from this debacle is that money matters. You can’t get outspent $650m to $80m and still win an election. 8 times the money could mean 8 times the audience. And in this case, it meant Obama got the additional 5 percentage points he needed to seal the deal. 5 points the other way, and McCain would have won.
Woulda, coulda, shoulda - the point is that you can’t ignore money. And that means cultivating the base, instead of ignoring and insulting it as McCain did. What McCain failed to realize was that the money for political donations comes out from hard-earned cash. This is money people can use for other things - rent, car payments and repairs, college tuition, gasoline, food, and so on. By insulting high-profile supporters who made controversial statements, he was basically saying that their concerns did not matter. Well, if their concerns don’t matter to him, then McCain’s political ambition doesn’t matter to them. At least not to the extent of shelling out hard-earned cash to hand over to his campaign. He thought he would flip them the bird by going to Federal financing. Instead, it was Obama’s cash pile that flipped him the bird by handing McCain a landslide electoral defeat.
It just goes to show that McCain really is the POS everyone who couldn’t stand him said he was, all along.
What else did people expect?
Imagine how great she’ll be when doesn’t have to read McQueeg’s idiotic “maverick” talking points and she’s allowed to talk about energy, immigration, the 2nd Amendment and the global warming lie.
Palin’s biggest weakness was her pathetic running mate and his team of losers.
The louder the RINOs and rats squeal, the more proof Sarah is “The ONE” to lead the conservative movement and clean-out the pubbie party...and they fear her.
This is a load of crap. McCain defended Palin as recently as the day before the election with ads...he went on SNL with her. Don’t believe what you’re reading; it is being forwarded by folks who don’t want Palin anywhere near 2012!
Country Club Republicanism defined.
Say it ain't so John?
Great article. Great!
Anyone have Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt’s email address? I would like to email them just to let them know how important it is to be team players of a party and how I don’t appreciate anonymous rumor mongering.
Frankly I am tired of watching “GOP” eat their own to cover up their own failures.
Remember these two guys down the road. If they are in charge of any other GOP in the future, that candidate will never get my support.
No she doesnt. They ridicule her.
Palin scares the heck out of elitist, non-Christian centrist Republicans.
The lefty women I know are threatened by her fertility. Really.
So who are these two wedges (the world’s most simple tool), Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt? What’s there background?
We must remember that John McCain has never really been a traditional conservative. No one here was excited about John McCain until he picked Sarah Palin.
Think back with me. Remember the lashan hara John McCain performed on W? Remember the lies about how the W camp sent out phone calls to South Carolinians about how John McCain had an illegitimate black child. First, there’s no recording anywhere of this call and that’s highly unusual. Second, who thinks W would send a call out like that?
It’s an example of lashan hara to insinuate that South Carlinians are all a bunch of racists and haters.
We Republicans really put our blinders on for this guy McCain and now, I, am ashamed of him. Wish my call sign wasn’t “Doug4McCain”.
How can I change my name?
I’ll hold my fire on McCain himself (he picked her himself over some staff objections from what I’ve heard), but some of his staff is another story. They want another job and want to be accepted in the beltway.
I blame McCain for Palin’s loss
What that really means is that Obama was such a horribly weak candidate that he needed 8 times the money for less than 5% points even with all the MSN running cover for him!
And it shows that McCain was such a disaster that he couldn't beat a horribly weak candidate!
May the worst man lose instead of the best man win?
He wasnt squawking for Davis and Schmidt...he was parotting Nichole Wallace (that is why the Jr. High mean girls vibe came across).
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