Posted on 11/07/2008 1:02:18 PM PST by varialectio
And McCain couldnt ask the first four questions because he was too busy running away from Bush.
But that leaves the middle eight. McCain and Palin lost because they failed to discuss the financial crisis in a coherent, intelligible way. By the end of the World Series, every viewer should have heard of Barney Frank, Fannie Mae, and Fannie and Freddies $135,000 contribution to Obama. McCain spent the first half of the campaign defending the surge in Iraq and the second half defending people who make $250,000 per year. Four days before the election, while voters were worrying sick about their 401ks, the Maverick released an ad showing that Obama approved of his position on global warming. Like Dole, he always seemed to believe that American voters care about character.
Since Nov. 4th, posters have suddenly remembered that your enemys enemy is not necessarily your friend. But I continue to be surprised at the Sarahphilia on this site. Shes likeable, a genuine social conservative, and undoubtedly stirred the enthusiasm of the base. But that doesnt win elections. Her job was to convert a hefty percentage of Hillary supporters. She couldnt do this because she became a joke for them and for independents. You dont have to be a RINO to be embarrassed by her performance in the interviews and debate, which is all most voters saw of her.
Reagan became the Great Communicator not just because of his training as an actor, but because he was intellectually curious. Jane Wyman, his first wife, complained, If you ask him for the time, hell tell you how a clock works. McCain and Palin were not curious enough about the most critical issue on the minds of most voters to educate themselves about the housing and credit crisis.
Sarah couldn’t ask because she was not allowed to by the McCain bunch ... I emailed her (www.alaska.gov/) with my support ....
What an extremely valuable and timely vanity. Perhaps next you’ll tell us where Wendell Wilkie went wrong.
Ugghhh..., another vanity...
Will these never stop? And..., will these ever be put in the “vanity slot”....
[*holding a cross*] — “Back, stay there...”
In order to ask those questions you would actually have to want to win the election. Let’s face it, most of us around here were holding our nose when we voted for McCain. He is a fine man (which is very important), but he is no conservative. I voted for him because he was palling around with Palin. We need her and Jindal to step up and lead the conservative movement. Two wildly popular conservative Governors who can win elections.
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Pretty good one...the Wilkie line.
This blaming Sarah Palin stuff has got to stop. She is the only reason why McCain kept this election as close.
Since we have these “lists”....Why:
1. Did John McCain, arguably the most pro-illegal alien of the entire Congress (authored the Amnesty bill)...could only get 1/3 of the Hispanic vote? All the liberals and RINO told us “To get the Hispanic vote...you must be pro illegal alien”. Obviously, a pro-illegal GOP candidate cannot win a general election
2. Why did the McCain staff keep Sarah Palin away for so long after the convention? And why was she allowed to do her first interview with the very liberal Katie Couric? Why also was Palin able to attract large crowds of support on her own...when McCain could not?
Newsflash: the election is over. Obama won.
Long woulda/coulda/shoulda vanities don’t help at this point.
>>And why was she allowed to do her first interview with the very liberal Katie Couric? Why also was Palin able to attract large crowds of support on her own...when McCain could not?
OK, but Katie’s liberalism is no excuse for not prepping. And large crowds don’t win elections.
I like the Wilkie line too, but the post-morts are still coming in hourly.
McCain is clueless. We all knew that going in. This is the same guy who claimed no American would lower themselves to work picking lettuce for 50 bucks an hour.
Unfortunately, his staff was as clueless and un-conservative as him, but worse, unprincipled. They were embarrassed by Gov. Palin and the left’s derision of her, while we were enthralled with a governor, and woman, who was tougher than any of the limp-wrists in the GOP.
We really need to push the effete out of the GOP leadership.
If a question is asked and no one in the MSM communicates it, does the answer (or lack of one) matter?
If a question is asked and the MSM uses it to demean the asker, should the question have been asked?
In history, the Wig party became the Republican party under Lincoln. I’d like to see the Republican party become the Conservative party under Sarah Palin ......
The only reason I voted Republican was because of Palin. McCain, hero that he is, is way out of his element as a national leader ... then there’s Obama, but then I repeat myself ....
This is a good cleansing of the Republican party ... hopefully those good old boys will be gone.
My visualization of the Republican party is that character of a banker on a Monopoly card and that of the Democrats as Al Capone ...
Sarah Palin is the Virgin Mary ....
BRAVO SIERRA!!
Sarah was kept on a short leash by the McCain campaign staff, and was basically thrown to the wolves (ie. Drive-By Media) unprepared. And although her debate performance against Biden was not spectacular, it was anything but embarassing, considering the blowhard she was up against.
IMO, Sarah should appoint herself to be Stevens' replacement when he gets frog marched out of the Senate. That will keep her on the national stage and give her a chance to tangle with and intellectually defeat the the other 'Rat blowhards there.
Palin/Jindal 2012!
How many politicians do you know that could be thrust into the spotlight, endure savage media attacks, and perform as well as Palin. Hmmmm?
The idiot McCain campaign should have built upon the momentum PALIN gave them at the convention by sending her around to the conservative talk show circuit, as well as pinpointed local news outlets.
Without her, he would have been slaughtered at the polls.
>>Without her, he would have been slaughtered at the polls.
He was slaughtered at the polls.
I can’t forgive both of them for not sticking it to the Dems on the housing/credit crisis. This is the issue that mattered most for voters, watching their 401ks vaporize.
They could have countered the “eight years of the Bush economy” by comparing the job growth and asset growth of the first six years (in spite of the 2000 tech bubble burst and 9-11) with a GOP House and Senate, with the unemployment and loss of stock values since the Democrats took Congress.
Your questions are more meaningful and constructive than the ones posted above. The future of the Republican Party is what matters, and that future is NOT John McCain.
I look at this as preparing for 2010 and 2012.
I emailed her also.
I hope Sarah is overwhelmed by the support we’re showing her!
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