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.
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?
Amen! Spot on and should be read by all! Focus on the target.
Agreed. This is nothing but coffeehouse BS. What I do remember from the consession speech was Palins dire, weepy look. Though not crying, she was obviously dejected, and immediately marched off the stage when the speech was done. Rush L. said it best:”Palin doesn’t like to lose.”
And let’s not forget how McCain let himself get sucker-punched by an amateur who “promised” to forgo the campaign donation process in favor of public financing.
Sarah needs to fight back against this. Put out a professional statement, say it one time, and walk away from all the McCain SOBs.
this is why the number one priority for republicans is to find out where obama got his money,
why did he accept prepaid credit cards
how much did Soros and Buffet give to obama in prepaid credit cards
how much came form abroad
the party needs to investigate how all this money came about and then ban it
especially pre paid credit cards
everyone who donates no matter how small should be made public
if the republicans do not do this then expect to lose the next election against obama as he will probably have near a billion dollars
all this money needs to be investigated ASAP
why is not Bush getting the feds involved?
does he think the Dems will now like him if he lets them get away with all this illegal money
“all this backbiting is unproductive..”
Maybe, but perhaps not, I can’t think of a better way for Governor Palin to distance herself from McCain then this little tempest in a teapot.
McCain spent his time saying “I’m not George Bush” Palin won’t have to spend hers saying “I’m not John McCain..”
He should be in the process of returning all he hasn't used. Taking that much money from a broken economy is irresponsible at best. Especially when a lot of it probably came from our tax dollars via welfare payments. Those are the type that supported him the strongest. Those, and minimum wage earners who could not afford it. But they were so spell bound their contributions probably came before their rent or mortgage.
Zhang, did McPain’s McCain-Feingold Act work against him in the election campaign? Is it like he cut his own throat?
Ironically, McCain started raking in huge cash after Palin was named as the VP choice, because the base loved her, but since he had already decided to take public financing he was locked in to the 84M. It was McCain’s blind obediance to CFR that did him in on the money front. He wouldn’t have outraised Obama but if he opted out of public financing after he picked Palin he would have had a heck of a lot more than 84M to spend.
oh well