Why McCain Lost

Newsmax ^ | 11/06/08 | Michael Reagan

[DocT111]

Barack Obama is president-elect of the United States because the Republican Party and John McCain handed him the presidential election on a silver platter.

The Republican Party and the Bush White House walked away from Republican ideals, and they walked away from Republican values.

George Bush allowed the Republican Congress to overspend in the first six years of his administration without once using the veto pen; he blindsided the conservative Republican members of Congress on many occasions, and walked away from the base of his party on immigration reform and other issues such as Medicare and No Child Left Behind.

He refused to sit down and break bread with the conservative members of his own party on Capitol Hill, yet believed that he could break bread with the liberal Democrats in Washington the way he did with the Democrats in Austin, Texas. And when he discovered it didn't work in Washington, it failed to stop him from trying and trying and trying over again what was obviously impossible.

Finally, the coup de grace was Dick Cheney's endorsement of John McCain in the waning days of the campaign, which gave Barack Obama the final nail to put in the coffin of McCain's campaign, which was striving mightily to distance him from the Bush administration.

Then there was McCain's campaign itself. It was the worst campaign since Bob Dole's on the Republican side, and the best campaign since Ronald Reagan’s on the Democrat side.

The McCain campaign was a campaign out of the 20th century, while the Democrats were running a campaign in the 21st century.

We need to understand that this was not a referendum on Reaganomics and Ronald Reagan. This was a referendum on George Bush, and Bush-ism, and Bush’s lack of leadership.

[PleaDeal]

Hopefully Prop 8 will hinder Hussein’s plan to institute perverted marriage nationwide.

All the immoral white wymyns are going to be mad at you for that!

[BufordP]

YEAH! WHAT YOU SAID!

[Taxman]

I said what I said, and I mean what I say!

This heanh is WAH!

[60Gunner]

McCain lost because the people he depended on to carry him for this election were the SAME people he crapped on via McCain-Feingold, the Gang of 14, and the Amnesty bill. While the conservative base was energized by the selection of Sarah Palin, the conservatives were voting for Gov. Palin and not Sen. McCain.

Now look at how McCain staffers and the GOP leadership are throwing Gov. Palin under the bus.

I tell you what: if we do not purge the Republican Party of the kind of people who would destroy conservatives and trample on conservative values, then the GOP as we know it must be destroyed, and a new conservative party must be formed out of its ashes.

[VOA]

“
McCain lost because the people he depended on to carry him for this
election were the SAME people he crapped on via McCain-Feingold,
the Gang of 14, and the Amnesty bill.
“

I’ll second that.

[Sensei Ern]

I call BS!

McCain lost because of McCain. When he lost the nomination to Bush, he stood in the way of conservative legislation several times just to be the darling of the media. He even threatened to leave the Republican party when the Senate was barely Republican.

We would have been better off had we said, “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.”

Now that he lost, he is blaming everyone except himself. What a LOSER!

The only reason I voted for him was to free up the Arizona Senate seat for a real conservative. Now, he is still there, and can live easy while we normal people have to deal with the laws he sits in the prescense of their creation, making sure none of it applies to him.

[3D-JOY]

Correct and the reason we did not support him. Too bad for us to have to suffer the consequences, however.

[3D-JOY]

Why not tell us how you really feel! LOL

Glad to see you, by the way!