Posted on 11/07/2008 4:10:56 AM PST by IbJensen
It’s tough to win when the Dems’ October Surprise was ruining the entire US economy.
Dead on. Unfortunately, I saw this coming back in February. McCain was the weakest of the GOP candidates. I still can’t believe how stupid the Republican voters were for giving him the nomination.
McC looked like an over-the-hill pasty-faced Home Depot clerk supplementing his Social Security....at the open-forum debate, he minced around, like he was looking for the paint stirrer.
Remember the end of McCain’s convention speech - “Fight with me, Fight with me!”?
We fought for him, but he never did. What a bum.
God bless Sarah Palin.
Good article. Had not read Feder before - I need to change that.
The only way to get rid of these destroyers is to overthrow the central government.
We should have fought him.
Romney was no economics guru, unless you think Krugman and Soros are gurus. He was for all the bailouts. His health care plan was like hillary’s.
and obama would still paint him as the richie rich CEO who liked Bush.
“Americans like their president to be dynamic, charasmatic, engaging, bold.”
Exactly. And the Stupid Party keeps repeating the same play.
Look at the simple [generational] 16 year cycle.
Every 16 years Democrats nominate and people elect a [relatively young] glib “charismatic” “JFK”:
1960 - JFK
1976 - Jimmy Carter
1992 - Bill Clinton
2008 - Barak Obama
Extending back a little further, pre-cursors to “JFK”:
1944 - FDR
1912 - Woodrow Wilson
And, of course, Republicans reciprocate by nominating someone [relatively] old, inarticulate or unappealing:
1960 - Nixon
1976 - Ford (which reminded me of this election cycle)
1992 - Bush 41
2008 - McCain
Bob Dole also fits, but missed the cycle.
What have you been smoking/snorting/drinking? You must have missed the anti-Mormon meltdowns that probably lead Fox to call FR a hate-speech site.
I voted for Mitt in the primary. He was the last pubbie I held my nose to vote for.
Actually, I hope he runs again. Say what you will, he would have at least had the balls to coherently attack BHO. Plus, there potentially would be less of a money problem.
I would hope we treat our Pinochet when he arrives with more dignity and respect than the Chileans did.
It’s tough to win when the Dems’ October Surprise was ruining the entire US economy.
exactly. And if we picked a governor, he would’ve talked about it but Obama would actually vote to do something about it. I see a checkmate here.
don’t give me this anti-Mormon nonsense. I am proud of the real Mormons who were for prop 8 in CA.
McCain and the RNC both lost. The democrat grass roots game was a good one, but it was still dependent upon the nominee to make the sale to the voters. McCain failed miserably in that regard.
He couldn’t talk about experience after picking Palin.
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Palin has more applicable experience than the one who was elected President! Her lack of experience was not the REAL problem. American’s willingness to overlook anything and everything negative about the,”first black candidate” was the problem.
It's nice to know someone else thinks like you sometimes.
There are those who will attribute McCain’s defeat to...the financial meltdown for which Republicans unfairly took the fall...
That's my theory that if this Financial Meltdown hadn't happened at just the wrong time McCain would have won. If it was their October Surprise it worked.
...or the fact that only once in the post-war era has a two-term president been succeeded by a member of his party.
I wasn't aware of that interesting little fact.
The Republicians act as if there are no qualified younger politicians. They insist or running “wrinkled old white men” (also think Dole) and routinely get their clocks cleaned. We can do better than that.
Apparently the apparatchiks in the Republican party do not like bright, attractive, well spoken women running either. I base this statement on the reprehensible attacks on Sarah Palin by anonymous members of McCain’s staff.
The conservatives in this country will have to raise up some leaders if they are to succeed in the future. Pray that the Lord has mercy on this country.
The difference: Obama ran for president, McCain ran for the senate. It was McCain’s history of being 95% republican 5% of the time that killed him. Why vote for democrat lite when you can get the real thing. He agreed with Obama on just about everything but the war and the war is no longer a big issue.
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