Posted on 11/14/2008 1:28:03 PM PST by re_tail20
The environment the GOP candidate ran in, which grew worse the closer he got to Election Day, made a very difficult task close to impossible.
In July last year, I boarded a flight from Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., to Manchester, N.H., in the company of Senator John McCain and his son, Marine Corps Private James McCain, who was scheduled to deploy to Iraq a couple weeks later. Raised in a military family, the senator was familiar with the experience of bidding good-bye to loved ones as they left for war. But Jimmy was the first of his seven children to do so, and although few observers would detect the worry for his son’s safety that burdened him or even recognize the tough but slightly built teenager accompanying him that weekend, he could think of little else.
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You certainly can’t fault Salter’s loyalty.
And this is a good defense of Palin:
“Every candidate for office who takes on an incumbent runs on a message of change and reform. Few live up to their promise. Sarah Palin ran against the political establishment in Alaska with the promise to clean up the self-dealing and corruption that had finally worn out the patience of Alaskan voters. She defeated an incumbent Republican governor and a popular former Democratic one, an impressive accomplishment in itself. But she didn’t just run as a reformer. She governed as one. That was the source of her appeal to John McCain. He holds in high esteem anyone of either party who keeps their campaign commitments to reform. He greatly admired Senator Russ Feingold and the late Senator Paul Wellstone for that reason, despite their liberal credentials and views on most issues. He chose Sarah Palin to underscore his commitment to reform and help him keep his promise once in office. He recognized she had little experience in foreign affairs, but so did his opponent. She was well-versed in the area of energy security, which would have been a priority of a McCain administration. She is hardworking, intelligent, and a quick study, and he believed she would learn by study and experience all she would be required to know as next in line to the presidency.”
Very good excerpt. It succinctly gets to the point of why she is the real deal and not rhetoric - which most people w/ character and heart have already seen. Thanks!
A message that hardly got effectively communicated to the general public thanks to inept and now disloyal McCain (former Bush) aides.
Good post. Thanks re_tail20.
The candidate is responsible for his campaign’s performance.
You’re most welcome.
If there was space, or if I figured out how to properly use it, I’d have put the whole article on, and readers wouldn’t have to go outside to read it all
What the hell is the McCain brand he say they were trying to protect.
To tell the truth, I think maybe McCain is just plain dumb. He means well, he is dedicated to doing the best thing for his country, but he just doesn’t understand what that is.
Thus, for example, he pushed McCain-Feingold because he actually believed that it represented campaign finance REFORM. Of course, that’s what every liberal talking head was saying, and McCain apparently believed it.
He doesn’t seem to understand that it’s not enough to be a maverick. You have to be a smart maverick in a good cause. That’s where Palin has it all over him. Contrary to the media spin, she is not only down to earth and a natural leader, she is also very smart.
I can hardly stand to read the comments sections these days, anyone else read the comments to this article?
It certainly didn’t take him long to float working with The O on illegal immigration, did it?
After you mentioned the comments I had a look at them, but I couldn’t actually stomach reading them.
The inhabitants of this blog seem to be particularly stupid. Even the guys on our side seem to have a hard time making their point.
I call BS on this one. If McCain were even half a conservative he could have won this election pulling away. Palin almost saved him and still he did practically everything in his power to throw the election.
“I can hardly stand to read the comments sections these days, anyone else read the comments to this article?”
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I like reading the responses here—it helps remembering how things got the way they are....
It’s like that all over the net... anytime an article is posted the Obots come out of the woodwork and write the most vile things imaginable... our country has lost all civility.
The McCain I know didn’t really want to win the Presidency. He declared, in April(?) that Obama’s attendance at “God Damn America” Wright’s church was off the table as a campaign issue.
White liberal guilt.
Yep, typical liberal carp.
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