[bdeaner]

Were you paying any attention at all? Palin isn't a 'scapegoat', she is part of the reason we lost. wake up and smell the coffee!

You are wrong. Without Palin, a lot of conversatives would have sat out the election or voted third party. Palin saved him from an even bigger and much more humiliating loss.

McCain lost because he ran on a platform that said, "Vote for me, I'm not really a Republican." I voted for Palin, not for him. Without Palin, I would have voted third party. A lot of people feel the same.

Now that all is said and done, I am actually happy McCain lost, because it probably would have done more harm than good should the party become associated with that RINO piece of crap.

[Mojave]

McCain lost because he ran on a platform that said, "Vote for me, I'm not really a Republican."

Exactly!

[dsc]

“You are wrong. Without Palin, a lot of conversatives would have sat out the election or voted third party. Palin saved him from an even bigger and much more humiliating loss.”

Spot on.

Now, I’m a guy who goes with Thomas Jefferson: “Were our State a pure democracy...there would yet be excluded from their deliberations...women, who, to prevent depravation of morals and ambiguity of issue, should not mix promiscuously in the public meetings of men.” (Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval)

However, there are exceptions. There had been two in my lifetime: Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher (Atilla the Hen). Now there is a third: The ‘Cuda.

If the Republican Party does not make her their standard-bearer, then I wait only to micturate on the party’s grave.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

McCain lost because he ran on a platform that said, "Vote for me, I'm not really a Republican."

It's just a damned shame that that's a hair too long to make it as a sig line! ;)

[rhema]

McCain lost because he ran on a platform that said, "Vote for me, I'm not really a Republican." I voted for Palin, not for him.

You're not alone.