McCain deserves no criticism on this. I have tried to support President Bush through thick and thin. But finding an economic meltdown weeks before the presidential election? It’s irrefutable Bush’s administration is the author of McCain’s defeat.
I keep thinking of the movie scene in which Jose Ferrer toasts “Here’s to the real author of the Caine Mutiny!” and tosses his drink in Fred McMurry’s face.
Here’s to the real author of Obama’s victory! I’m just not sure whether the drink is for Paulson, Bush, or both.
There is a great deal that has bothered me the last four years, I finally was able to put some of the pieces of the puzzle together in reading The Failure Factory, Gertz explains who are the players around Bush really are, basically the liberal Republicans took over after he was re-elected and that is what forced Rove out. I was bothered by Paulson’s nomination and I remain troubled to this day about Paulson.
Yep, those two for sure, but I believe there were plenty of other hands in this mess.
McCain’s biggest problem was that he had to campaign on “change”, just like the other guy. And why would people choose OLD change with McCain when they could choose NEW change with Obama?
The reason McCain had to campaign on “change” is because George Bush sat there like a punching bag for eight years, never having the guts to stand up and defend himself as lie after lie after lie from the rats and their newsrooms went left unanswered. Bush’s unwillingness to stand up and fight was an eight-year slap in the face to his bewildered supporters, including me.
The result was that the Democrat candidate could successfully tie his opponent to the easily-smeared punching bag, Bush, while the Republican candidate had little choice but to distance himself from Bush. What? McCain was supposed to defend a man who refused for eight years to defend himself? This situation left McCain between a rock and a hard place.
Throw in the “October surprise” and McCain never stood a chance in hell.
So yes, the November 4th Republican slaughter was Bush’s fault. No joke.
It is truly ironic that Bush defeated McCain in 2000 and then again in 2008.
Whew.... Brutal.
Lets say he did the right thing and rushed off to fix things.
Pelosi and a few other democrats went on vacation that week they had no intention in passing a bill. McCain could only lead the minority party the democrats would NEVER have helped him fix the issue at that time. It would be like the democrats handing McCain the presidency they wouldn’t even consider it.
On top of that Obama handed it perfectly in my opinion by just keeping a low profile when it came to a very unpopular bailout. It didn’t matter during an election if it was the right thing to do but to go there and lead the extremely unpopular bailout was just stupid during an election.
McCain was an idiot for thinking the democrats would help and not understanding that his image would be destroyed if he got a bill passed or not it was a win win for democrats.
Thanks, I have wondered what the story of McCain’s involvement during the Infamous Goldman/DNC Coup. I think it interesting that some think GWB Admin had such hatred for McCain...OTOH, I can sympathize with the animosity towards ‘my friend’, retch!