Posted on 01/17/2009 7:01:24 AM PST by rabscuttle385
RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, have you thought back to the 2008 election? Have you asked yourself who was responsible for that loss? Have you asked yourself who really should shoulder the blame and the burden for the defeat of Senator McCain? A lot of people have been speculating this, a lot of postmortems on the election. Let's go to the BBC. BBC World Service, host Stephen Sackur spoke with former McCain campaign manager Rick Davis and asked Rick Davis on whose shoulders rests the burden of the McCain defeat.
DAVIS: We didn't successfully reach out to them. I mean, but you look at the leadership John McCain gave which is counter to the direction that the party was headed, when you have the Rush Limbaughs of the world who, you know, literally almost feed the nativist attitude toward immigration reform, what do you think the Hispanic voter, the Latino voter is gonna remember? They're gonna remember the attacks, not the efforts by people like John McCain to try and reform.
RUSH: So there you have it, Rick Davis, the campaign manager for McCain, has dumped on my shoulders the reason McCain lost and others like me alienated Hispanic voters. This is so wrong on so many levels, but it explains why this campaign was so inept. A brief time-out. Just wanted you to hear that so you could stew over it.
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I think Rush should have spent a little more time analyzing and focusing on the GOP candidates, rather than being mesmerized by Hillary Clinton, and we might actually have gotten a better candidate. I actually quit listening to him for awhile, because it was all Dems all the time. Since GOP candidates never get any decent press coverage, if Rush had given them a little more attention, we might have been able to get momentum behind a better one than McCain.
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Oh, I typed something similar then decided not to post. I’m glad I found your response! I so agree, and that goes for Sean, too: No more Stop XXXX Express. Let’s get the best candidates prepped, offered and SOLD based on their core principles and values.
The GOP did a terrible job fighting back in Ohio. Obama pounded us hard in the last few days and we just sat there and took it. How is that Rush’s fault?
“Personally, I thought Romney would have given us the best shot. Not sure if he would have won, but it would have been a real fight.”
If nothing else, it would have stalled Obama getting ahead because of any sudden economic problems.
The animosity between McCain and Rush, as I predicted, caused McCain’s people to make stupid decisions to which medium Sarah was to be made available to. That Sarah had to sneak away (by her own admission) and call Rush on the sly, says so much about McCain. When any media personality has an audience of 20m you would think that you would want to present your case to his audience, wouldn’t you?
McCain was beaten by his own party. Blame game is lame !
Note to GOP....ya run a RINO again versus a real conservative ya loose in 2012 AGAIN !
But I doubt the current GOP handlers will have the balls to own up to their mistake and keep blaming someone else for their failures.
Unfortunately, no REAL conservatives were viable in 2008. Duncan Hunter was unknown outside of San Diego County, Calif., and Fred Thompson clearly had no enthusiasm.
I saw this train wreck coming two years ago when George Allen went down in flames.
exactly....”nativist” is one of those terms the pro-illegal crowd uses when they cant win the illegal alien amnesty debate...a sure loser for any candidate
“i didn’t vote for this guy. A couple of months ago, many, many people here were guilt-tripping those of us who refused to support this guy. Are any of them still willing to defend their vote”?
Much less so than before, but ask me again in a year.
Losers always lose ......... Rush is a winner.
Yes.
And I am going to assert that if the McCain campaign had listened more to the 'political neophyte' from Alaska the election result would have been much closer, possibly even a different result.
Chalk the loss up to the naivete and narcissism of McCain and his surrogates, (manifested by Davis' bombastic whining & refusal to shoulder responsibility).
We will definitively see a stronger; more assertive campaign when 'Palin' is the name at the top of the ticket.
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Still, why not put a REAL conservative out there and have him/her clean up? I suspect their is allot of pent up loathing for this RHINO
There are no words, or emphasis that can be placed on those words, to describe the perfidity of a man who trades on his "patriotism" to screw those who believe in him.
So, in McCain you have
a "leader" who doesn't lead...
a "hero" who is anti-heroic...
a "conservative" who won't conserve Western Civilization...
a "Republican" working to destroy the Republic...
Looking dispassionately at his actions, all I can say is Yep, McCain is a Democratic-Socialist!
I submit to you that any good this man does is purely accidental!
Ok, McCainannities! Argue that he's had a heroic past, honor him, etc... But let me ask you this: Why are you pushing so hard for a man who's actions will destroy what his lying lips say he loves?
Why?
Here is the equivalent of the McCain situation:
A man saves you, your family and your friends from robbers by banging pots & pans. After you thank him, reward him, he follows your friends and family home, and one by one, over a period of years, he &the robbers he "drove off" gets each of them alone -- when they're by themselves -- murders thm slowly & painfully.
After each murder, he goes to you and emphasizes that he's your friend, he'll find those who brutally murdered your loved ones, and bring them justice!
He's your friend! (Indeed, like a poor conman, every other paragraph begins with "My Friend(s)"tm!)
When everyone except you and your spouse have been murdered, and its certain there are too few to oppose his robberies & murders, he grins and says: "Hello My Friendtm! I'm John McCain! I'm a Liberal, and you're really stupid!!"
...McCain actually showed a good uptick with the selection of Palin, but his numbers crashed when he decided to “suspend” his campaign and fly back to DC to “help” with the management of the financial meltdown. It made him look like an erratic, stuntsman and panderer ... and he never recovered the political center.
Amen and amen, tanknetter. Rick Davis (and John McCain, for that matter) should seriously discover retirement or another line of work...
If Rush was to blame then McCain would not have even been the nominee.
Exactly. No Republican, Conservative, or Deity was going to win on the Republican ticket. My biggest concern now is a Democratic super majority for the foreseeable future. I have been astonished at the amount of people I personally know who seemed to be levelheaded who have went hard core Obama.
Do you allow crossovers in your caucus?
No, it was not Rush’s fault. It was all McCain’s fault - the most flawed, mentally unstable, and inept of the GOP candidates, who at the end appeared to have thrown the election.
McCain can go to hell.
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