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Posted on 11/09/2008 11:36:20 AM PST by WilliamReading
PHOENIX, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Republican U.S. Sen. John McCain lost his bid for the White House mainly because anti-incumbent fury doomed him from the start, analysts say.
McCain made many missteps, but they didn't matter much because it was clear no Republican stood much of a chance in the 2008 election with voters overwhelmingly blaming President George Bush and the GOP for the nation's problems, The Arizona Republic reported Sunday.
McCain, who represents Arizona in the Senate, lost to Democratic opponent Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois last week in an electoral college landslide. He never stood a realistic chance, said Alberto Gutier, a longtime Phoenix Republican activist and McCain supporter.
"Everything was going to go the wrong way for the Republicans, in general, because of the negatives that President Bush had," he said. "When you combine the war, the economy, the gas prices -- it's a hell of a thing."
"Our polls and national polls showed that most people by a 2-to-1 margin blamed Bush and the Republicans more than the Democrats for getting us into the mess, and they believed that Obama was more likely to get us out of it," Bruce Merrill, a veteran Arizona pollster, told the Republic.
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Have to agree with misterrob. I’m not Mormon and never supported Romney, but the inflammatory anti-Mormon post from Diogenesis is bigoted horse manure.
When clowns like Brokaw can say to Charlie Rose: We don't know anything about this guy while "this guy" has a history that can be reviewed, THAT is what made it inevitable.
When you can have a candidate like McCain, who ran for ten years for an office he didn't really want, THAT made it inevitable.
The only thing fated is what happens. What will happen isn't yet fate.
Someone is full of it.
The electoral college doesn't even MEET to vote until December 15th.
I don’t like innocent people attacked, do you?
I don’t like children attacked, do you?
Infair to a true hero.
Yup.
McCain will always be McCain. He always has to be the prima donna, and the “maverick”
With only a few weeks to an election, and given a great opportunity to close the deal, he turns round instead, and blames capitalism itself, instead of laying the blame squarely where it belonged: on the doorstep of Obama and the Dims who forced banks to make mortgage loans to people who couldn't afford to pay back.
Well Obama doesn't have enough time on the job to be personally blamed. But not his party. McCain should have forcefully pointed out that the problems where caused by laws put in place during the Carter and Clinton administrations. Might not have worked, people have trouble tracing cause and effect back more than a few years. But it would have been better than voting for an even worse law that will bite us in the buttocks down the road. Maybe not all that far down the road either, as it put more power, lots more power, in most socialist administration and Congress at least since FDR, and arguably ever.
Source????
Who best to analyze why McCain was doomed from the start than the people who engineered his nomination?
Bush has done things I don't like BUT he wasn't responsible for Freddie and Fannie --and now we have the same people who engineered the mess supposedly making corrections?! --with taxpayer $$$$.
That's what makes me really mad---the Dems cause all kinds of problems and the Repubs turn over and play dead!
Why didn't McCain run against the Dems in Congress who have a lower approval rating than Bush? Oh, I forgot---he's one of them!!!
i agree with you. there were many winning issues for republicans but
neither bush or cheney rarely defended themselves and let dems
set the agenda. zero, zero leadership. bush apparently could
not bring himself to engage in pr.
Oh hellz to the no. It was not Bush’s fault.
The media messiah....and RACE determined this election.
RACE. The only reason.
If BO wasnt black, he would not even been a contender. Let’s get real.
It’s a race thing.
So we have a Marxist...hey, at least he is black and white guilt can be put to rest.
RACE = determining factor
period
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Academia, the unions, Hollywood and the MSM all campaignining (free) for Obama didn’t help either.
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We lost because of the economy — the “undecideds” and “independents” voted their short-term pocketbook interests.
We lost because America continues “Slouching Towards Gomorrah”.
We lost because we nominated McCain.
While true, it was the final straw in the wind of the perfect storm. There were lots of other factors, no one of which was The One reason we got The One. Not the least of these was a media in the tank for The one. That's really hard to overcome, since a great communicator like Ronald Reagan, who is also conservative, doesn't come along more than once in a few generations.
no Republican [from inside the beltway] stood much of a chance in the 2008 election with voters overwhelmingly blaming President George Bush and the GOP for the nation's problemsThat is precisely why Senators should not be presidential candidates.
Corrected the link in post #55
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