Posted on 11/07/2008 4:10:56 AM PST by IbJensen
In all fairness to that gaggle of losers, McCain was the biggest turn-off of a candidate ever. His nasal voice sounded like a tin horn stuck on b-flat.
His teeth were too yellow, and he LOOKED too old for heavens sake. America like their president to be dynamic, charasmatic, engaging.
McCain is NONE of those. The GOP could have defeated Obama handily had it picked a more articulate, dynamic, expressive candidate who had the balls to say what needed to be said. (regardless of the economic mess. people were LOOKING for a reason to reject Obama, but they found none in McCain)
McCain’s jowells remind everyone constantly that he has mellinoma.
People in America like tall Presidents with swagger and confidence. McCain is short and frumpy, and is too self demeaning for me.
And McCain has absolutely NO CHARM at all. Women flock to candidates with charm.
Reagan, GWB, even G. Herbert Walker Bush had some charm.
“To me a ‘moderate’ is a silly fool who staddles the centerline and doesn’t stand for a damned thing.”
especially if you are a senator because all you have are votes and speeches. A moderate governor at least has a track record (low unemployment, growth, programs that work, etc)
The definition of STUPID:
Trying to do the same thing over and over again exactly like the first time and expecting a different result!
That being said, we haven’t had a decent candidate since Ronald Wilson Reagan.
nope and even if we had Reagan again he’d be too old for this generation.
Many advocated that nominee McCain would be different from member of the Senate McCain.
or that palin represented a change in mccain...he just used her and us.
> Republicans lost because they nominated their weakest candidate.
Republicans lost because the media and Dem crossover voters in open primaries nominated the Republicans' weakest candidate.
In spite of running against four powerful forces: the anger against Bush, Obama’s huge fund raising advantage, the MSM being in the tank for Obama, and the mortgage meltdown, McCain needed only 2.2 more percentage points of the vote to win. He didn’t get those votes because he ran an an absolutely rancid campaign, except for Sarah.
Here are a few of the things he didn’t do that, together, would have given him the presidency and saved all of us from the abomination to come: 1) relentlessly attack Obama for Obama’s Marxist, terrorist, racist associations and alliances; 2) in each debate point out how the mortgage meltdown was caused by Clinton’s CRA regulations and policies forcing banks to give subprime mortgages to people who couldn’t pay for them and Obama’s support for that policy; 3) attack Obama for the disgraceful ad he ran that ridiculed McCain for not being able to use a keyboard due to his war injuries; and 4) do some real opposition research so he could have discovered and used Obama’s publicly posted remarks about “bankrupting” the coal industry and causing electricity rates to “skyrocket.”
Those of us, myself included, who believed McCain was a MSM/DemonRat Trojan Horse who stole the Republican nomination by gaming the system have been fully vindicated.
McCain did not lose.
The Republican party lost the election. The Rats worked hard to convert non voters to voters in the critical precincts in critical counties in critical states. Acorn and similar efforts can be criticized but there are no fraud allegations and zero convictions. Acorn did their job effectively.
The RNC got their butt whipped on the ground. They lost because they did not work at the most basic of political tasks.......working at the grass roots.
McCain can’t advance, what he doesn’t understand.
I knew they would blame Palin to preserve McCain. Romney is also trying to set himself up for another run. These RINOs are predictable. They are nothing more than Democrats without the Teflon armour.
I disagree because he had the one advantage that none of the other candidates had: his distance from Bush. For all of mcCain’s mistakes, Bush was the biggest problem.
yeah but mccain is 72.
Augusto Pinochet (may he rest in peace) saved Chile from thge same fate it looks like we're headed for. We may need a great man like him.
I found my new tag line in that article!
In all due respect, you could not be more wrong.
Voters were LOOKING desperately for a reason to reject Obama (or Hillary for that matter), and they found none in McCain, the consummate boring WashDC insider.
Not to beat a dead horse or anything, but the stubborness of conservatives (like many here on FR, including JimRob) resulted in Romney the economics guru and Wash-outsider being rejected for ?? ... what, he is too Mormon.....
...he made a statement or two about homo civil rights 15 years ago????
He was once pro-choice but is now pro-Life????
He is too successful in business???
Don't mind saying it still irks me to this day that the only... ONLY Republican candidate who could have won was treated so shabbily by hard right conservatives, of which I am one.
And don't give me this baloney that the south would "never" have supported Romney, because that is laughable when made against the backdrop of their rejection of Obama the race-baiting anti-American.
In the end, I would rather win with a slightly flawed candidate like Romney than get trounced and humiliated thanks to a McCain candidacy who was embarrassed to be Republican.
It's maddening.
And another reason why I am for a new political party. The GOP is fatally flawed, and the betrayal of Sarah Palin and McCain's silence speaks volumes to me.
The GOP wanted this outcome, deep down. They won't fight, even though their candidate asked America too.
In the face of a radical Marxist obtaining the Presidency,from Bush on down, the response was tepid.
The only ones that wanted the GOP to win were the conservatives, and Sarah ignited our passion for dragging the GOP to victory one more time.
But's let's face it--why would we ever do this again? The GOP is a bunch of feckless, spineless wimps who don't even love their country enough to fight for it.
Conservatives are Charlie Brown. The GOP is Lucy pulling away the football.
So, let them go their way and we'll go ours. A new conservative party, with Palin, Jindal, and others is the answer.
The GOP deserves nothing more from conservatives. They couldn't even keep a Communist out of the White House a mere 20 years after Ronald Reagan left office.
Time to move on, and leave stupid behind.
romney had the support of most of FR. That will not happen again.
What will he do during the next 4 years anyway? He only had one term as governor and the reason why he ran for president was because he knew he probably wouldn’t win a second term after his mediocre performance.
So he did his homework and gave some nice speeches with the hope that conservatives would ignore his actual record.
My daughter, who heard me have all kinds of choice words for McCain when she was in first grade in 2000, was a bit confused this year when I became his biggest supporter! But once I told her the stories of the live babies left to die, she understood how we had to do everything we could to keep the monster BHO out. We stuck up for McCain, despite our differences. Why can't he stick up for Sarah?
There were issues McCain couldn’t use and issues McCain wouldn’t use.
I always had the impression that his kind treatment of his opponents was less from a sense of "chivalary" and more of a sense that he would be back in the Senate on Nov. 5th.
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