Posted on 11/07/2008 7:21:04 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Newsweek has published a deep, multi-chapter account of the entire 2008 presidential campaign, with a lot of inside perspective. Somewhere in the middle, it deals with Sen. John McCain's friendship with Sen. Joe Lieberman.
McCain had apparently pitched Lieberman's name for the No. 2 spot on the ticket, but the idea was quickly shot down by his advisers.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.courant.com ...
Exactly. Chuckles Baldwin is already declaring the conservative movement and the Republican party dead.
How many votes did your loser Chuckie get?
Yep. I would have gladly given up another seat to be rid of that putz. Good grief.
He won AZ by double-digits.
We were, but some on the far right preferred to act like spoiled children and refused to financially support our nominee causing him to seek federal funding and limit his overall intake of cash. If that applies to you, then you are responsible for McCain’s defeat. Enjoy President Obama.
I did not vote for Chuck Baldwin. I have stated plainly many times that the CP's view on the GWOT is unpalatable to a Reagan Conservative.
I did not vote at all, as I could not get to the polls. I am set up for absentee ballot from now on, so that will no longer be an issue.
Had I been able to, my vote would have gone to Alan Keyes.
What an incredibly foolish statement. The Republicans have no right or expectation of Conservative support *at_all* beyond the support and commitment that the Republican party gives to Conservative ideals. That has ALWAYS been the case, and will not change. What is in me, is in my sons too, and will be in their sons as well.
This election, from it's beginning, was about spitting in the Conservatives' eye. It was about making up the difference in the middle. As it turns out, your player got the same answer every other RINO has- with bells on.
You lose.
If you want Conservative support, you will bring it to us, *not* the other way around. That IS the way it is, or we will go elsewhere, as we are doing in record numbers. Like it, or lump it.
As for the fault, it lies with those who try to make Conservatives go where they will not, and where they never have. In your defense, your plan was to bypass us, originally, but the effect is the same. Don't blame us for not wanting to eat sh!t sandwich. next time, serve up something tasty.
The GOP is afraid of its own shadow. The hollowness is from within.
I’m responsible for McCain’s defeat because I didn’t give the campaign money? Firstly, I don’t have tons of spare cash to toss out to candidates who don’t share my beliefs. Secondly, I live in California, which is a statement that speaks for itself. Thirdly, no I will not enjoy Obama.
Funny you should mention 30%. That's usually the threshold that analysts -- all of them, even the conservative ones -- say that Republican candidates need. They don't find it irrelevant.
Forget 2004. In 2000, Lieberman was the reason that Gore nearly took Florida, why it was even close enough in the first place to try to steal it.
And reread my point, I didn't say that Lieberman would've won it for McCain. Doubt that he would. But he would've changed the dynamics of the race.
Edited for accuracy.
McCain only took 54 percent of the vote in Arizona, compared to 45 percent for Obama.
As a flunky-in-good-standing in rabscuttles sycophantic army, you have no credibility. But thatnk you for exposing yourself.
For Obama?
Seriously if the media can paint JFK Democrat John McCain as “Bush’s third term” and “right-wing” they could have done the same to pro-war leftist Joe Lieberman.
Good with words that Coulter.
If anyone hereon has been shown to be without credibility, it is YOU. Conservatives throughout the nation rejected your rational.
What has been exposed is knee-jerk Republicanism, which continues to ensure socialism's unopposed rise without opposition, and those who practice it.
As the RINOs fall from power, and the Reaganites rise to defend America successfully from a minority position, remember this day- Because without their rise, that defense would not have occurred at all.
“Lindsey Graham, urged McCain to pick Lieberman, still a nominal Democrat, as a way to show that McCain put country over party label—”
That sounds about right. We have to purge Rino’s like Graham and McCAin.
“Why weren’t we running a Republican this election season?”
Because the media and the GOP didn’t want one.
And you can believe everything he writes. That's why that magazine is doing so well. /s
Think you'll destroy a major political party and plant a substitute in its place in time to save the nation? ... Nah, I doubt you even care, it's just about your self-aggrandizement. And the nastiness of your little cabal is well known.
But please, keep it up. Readers get to add it up for themselves, to see the agenda of scum spewing at FreeRepublic. [Perhaps your diminuitive leader will add something to stroke your childish ego since you pinged it. Bwahahahaahaha ... priceless, flunky, you prove the appellation with your response.]
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