GMU Analyst Offers Insight On McCain's 'Big' Mistakes; Hard-Right Appeal, Financing, Palin Cited

The Washington Post ^ | 2008-11-27 | Jennifer Buske

[rabscuttle385]

Republican Sen. John McCain made three "big" mistakes while campaigning.

Add those to the fact he had to follow in the footsteps of an unpopular president, and the Democrats were almost guaranteed a win Nov. 4, a political analyst said Friday.

"It was a very unusual election, and almost all trend lines said it would be a Democratic victory," said Jerry Mayer, associate professor at George Mason University's School of Public Policy and director of the master's of public policy program. "It was not your year, Republicans."

[MrEdd]

LOL.

I am the hard right - he appealed to me not at all - I voted Keyes

[rabscuttle385]

McCain is a big mistake.

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[Cicero]

How to become a much-quoted authority: Tell the press what it wants to hear.

[muawiyah]

I must have missed the part where McCain leaned hard right even though I am usually right on top of that sort of thing.

Darn, I hate it when that happens. (/sarc).

[gusopol3]

yeah, there’s some kind of loop evident there.

[gusopol3]

maybe you and Mr. Keyes will get one of the things you want—reparations.

[headstamp 2]

What a complete pantload. I can’t believe this guy is a political analyst.

[Stosh]

“Although the Alaska governor was well received at first, the excitement around her died down after it became apparent that she “knew nothing.”

I don’t know - if McLame really wanted a running mate who “knew nothing”, he could’ve picked Jennifer Buske.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Bullsh!t. I guess GMU hasn't heard about the "finanicial crisis" yet. "Voter" fraud and the promise of lots of government handouts were major players also. Welcome to the new aMErica.

[headstamp 2]

“How to become a much-quoted authority: Tell the press what it wants to hear.”

This is all boiled down to the “GOP needs to move left” meme.

[texican01]

The Professor is an ignoramous. Sarah Palin knows more than Biden, Hussein and McPain all put together.

Another evidence of incompetence intellect in an alledgedly “name” university!

[Snickering Hound]

I must have missed that hard right appeal when Obama outflanked McCain to the right on tax cuts.

[skinkinthegrass]

APoop/NYT/WaPoop/ABCNNBcBS/pBS/FauxNCBC Journalists are @ it again.
its' just more (of the same old) Liberal Drivel.

[FlingWingFlyer]

That is BIG when it comes to McCain losing. A Marxist sold the tax cuts better than a Republican. LOL!!! Now that’s “history.”

[apocalypto]

Jerry Mayer has to be loony tunes, just plain utterly stupid, or sarcastic. John Sidney McCain appealing to the hard right!!! hahahahahahahaha.

Amnesty, campaign finance reform, buddy-buddy with Ted Kennedy, dissing POW and MIA families, and on and on. This is hard right, Jerry Mayer? Where did this fruitcake come from?

I have relative who are moderates and they found him too much to the left.

[Polarik]

What a load of dung! McCain lost because he did not have the $600 million that Obama had, to buy the election.

[Josh Painter]

This guy is a leftist moron. Joe Lieberman? yeah, Mr. Exitement out there on the campaign trail. McCain hard right? LOL! Sarah Palin pick the worst decision ever by a presidential candidate? Guess he’s too young to remember when McGovern picked Eagleton, had the news come out that Eagle had electroshock treatments, said he would stand by Eagleton, then threw him under the bus.

Another “expert” leftist professor - what a freaking joke.

- JP

[apocalypto]

How did Jerry Mayer ever his job? After this, Mr. Mayer should be in the unemployment line.

[goldstategop]

If McCain ran as a Reaganite conservative, I missed it.

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