Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Did Operation Chaos Elect Obama?
American Spectator ^ | 12.12.08 @ 9:46AM | By Philip Klein

Posted on 12/12/2008 7:38:25 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines

Obama campaign manager David Plouffe reflects in an interview: "We went through as rigorous a primary as we've ever seen in our country's history, I think, and there's no doubt that made us a stronger general election candidate. A lot of our dirty laundry was aired, and we had practice in testing a campaign...because we had been through 54 primaries and caucuses, and run the gauntlet. McCain hadn't done that."

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008dncconvention; 2008election; 2020election; election2008; election2020; hillary; limbaugh; obamatruthfile; operationchaos; talkradio
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-106 next last
To: Behind Liberal Lines

The public being misinformed about the cause of the economic crisis (subprime meltdown) elected Obama.


21 posted on 12/12/2008 7:51:22 AM PST by TruthWillWin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Doogle
plus 750 million from unknown sources
22 posted on 12/12/2008 7:51:44 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: MEGoody
Lazy slobs looking for a government handout elected Obama.

I am in 100% agreement with your take. Blame whoever you want but the bottom line is people recognized an opportunity to get freebies, from welfare recipients to our beloved police and firefighters who have discovered that if they vote Democrat they can retire at age 50 with full pay and benefits.

23 posted on 12/12/2008 7:51:50 AM PST by Zevonismymuse
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: donna

You’re right.

The women I know of that voted for 0bama did so because

“he’ll take care of me and keep abortion guilt-free”.

Well, they won’t actually tell you that, but they can’t provide and back up any other reason for their vote.


24 posted on 12/12/2008 7:52:21 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: DManA
yeah it's all Rush's fault! in fact, mccain was his idea from the very beginning! yeah! That's the ticket!

25 posted on 12/12/2008 7:52:40 AM PST by ari-freedom (Conservatives solve problems. Libertarians ignore problems. Liberals create problems.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Obadiah
Mickey Mouse with a “D” after his name would have won.

He did.

26 posted on 12/12/2008 7:53:04 AM PST by null and void (Hey 0bama? There will be a pop quiz every day for the next four years...miss a question, people die.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Obadiah
Bush took a pounding for 8 long years and never bothered to respond and fight for the truth.

Let's not make Bush out to be a victim in all this. He has consistently betrayed conservative principles since at least 2004 and, with his bailout stunt today, probably put the final nail in the coffin of the Republican Party. He makes McCain look like Reagan at this point and that's saying something.

27 posted on 12/12/2008 7:53:34 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: DManA

that is also true. mccain didn’t just lose 1 or 2 states compared to Bush.


28 posted on 12/12/2008 7:53:45 AM PST by ari-freedom (Conservatives solve problems. Libertarians ignore problems. Liberals create problems.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: null and void; DManA

The last person Rush wanted to see run for President was McCain. Don’t see how he can be blamed.

Let’s make sure it doesn’t happen again...Palin/Jindal 2012.


29 posted on 12/12/2008 7:53:54 AM PST by norge
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: Behind Liberal Lines

The media ‘chose’ Obama and the sheeple just followed along.........


30 posted on 12/12/2008 7:53:54 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Behind Liberal Lines

McCain became the nominee because he was the only candidate on the party’s left. Too many candidates on the right of the ticket split the larger conservative vote, and consequently lost entirely. It’s not that McCain got a free ride, it’s that his conservative opponents split the vote, leaving the less popular candidate to win.


31 posted on 12/12/2008 7:54:10 AM PST by ctdonath2 (I AM JOE THE PLUMBER!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: null and void

Gee you guys. Sarcasm. Pretty obvious in context isn’t it?


32 posted on 12/12/2008 7:54:16 AM PST by DManA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: DManA

Must. Have. Coffee.


33 posted on 12/12/2008 7:55:44 AM PST by null and void (Hey 0bama? There will be a pop quiz every day for the next four years...miss a question, people die.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: ctdonath2

Yes I agree and also the MSM was the most kind to McCain on his way to the nomination.


34 posted on 12/12/2008 7:55:58 AM PST by Boardwalk
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: Behind Liberal Lines

The problem with that theory is we just witnessed John McCain’s SECOND failed national campaign.

Remember McCain ran a lousy campaign in 2000, and lost the primaries in that year as a direct result.

McCain then blamed ‘lobbyists’ and gave us Campaign Finance Reform.

McCain also blamed the NRA, and gave us the ‘gun show’ legislation.

McCain also blamed George W Bush, and voted against the ‘Bush’ tax cuts, because they were the ‘Bush’ tax cuts.

And McCain spent the seven years between losing the primaries and winning this years nomination by default (thanks again Mikey Huckabee’ attacking those he blamed the most for his ‘loss’ in 2000...Conservatives.

John McCain has never been an astute politician. He’s never been a Conservative, nor a Liberal for that matter. His political actions are not linked, nor derived, from any basic political philosophy or principals. His whole ‘schtick’ is Anger Politics.

He wakes up, gets pissed off about something - usually something he finds is personally insulting and/or offensive, and goes off on a Maverick JIHAD.

It was very helpful to the Democrats. McCain wasn’t trying to ‘help’ the Democrats, to be clear. He was trying to strike back at those he felt had either betrayed, insulted, or simply dared to publiclyl disagree with HIM.

Thats why his toughest words and actions were always directed at his fellow Republicans. Democrats just sat back and watched him run amok, and picked up the chips at the end of the election cycle recently concluded.

The irony is found in the fact McCain today is doing what he did in throughout the previous seven years.

Blaming everybody but himself for his defeat at the polls. Thats why you don’t see McCain defending Sarah Palin today.

Prediction: In the coming year, we will witness John McCain doing everything he can to undermine the RNC, the leadership within the Republican minority within the Senate, and the House at every opportunity.

Because if nothing else, John McCain is a creature of habit, without a political core set of beliefs.

Watch and see.


35 posted on 12/12/2008 7:56:49 AM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: null and void

Savage hypothesized that the republicans deliberately put up the weakest candidate knowing what was coming so they wouldn’t be blamed and could come back as the big rescuers in 2012.

I don’t endorse this theory but it’s interesting.


36 posted on 12/12/2008 7:57:58 AM PST by DManA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: ctdonath2

the whole point of OC was that mccain was so incompetent that we had to mess things up to give him at least a chance to drag himself across the finish line. Because he certainly wasn’t going to win on his ideas and charisma.


37 posted on 12/12/2008 7:58:50 AM PST by ari-freedom (Conservatives solve problems. Libertarians ignore problems. Liberals create problems.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Behind Liberal Lines

No.

Drive By’s, lazy humans looking for handouts, and uneducated people voted in Obama.

Our economy was it too but that has to do with uneducated Americans not knowing that it WAS NOT all Bush’s fault for the crisis....


38 posted on 12/12/2008 7:59:04 AM PST by VanillaBlizzard (Welcome to the USSA (United Socialist States of America))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Behind Liberal Lines

Let’s see. Who was president when Limbaugh hit the scene, and who will be president in 6 weeks?


39 posted on 12/12/2008 7:59:07 AM PST by Crawdad (Barack Obama hates black people.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MEGoody
Did Operation Chaos Elect Obama?

Operation Chaos on Wall Street elected OIbama even though his cronies had a big hand in causing it.

40 posted on 12/12/2008 7:59:15 AM PST by Polybius
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-106 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson