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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Rick Davis is a moron. It’s John McCain that caused McCain to lose. He’s a RINO, leftist-centrist who sides with the left more often than the right. He voted for the bailout and lost 10 percentage points in the election immediately afterward. Even Sarah Palin couldn’t drag his socialist carcass across the finish line.
I’m glad you stuck to your guns. I had not intended to vote for Sen. McBipartisan. I intended to vote for any conservative or independent running for president. Then McBipartisan picked Palin for running mate. So I voted the McBipartisan ticket, but I was really voting for Palin.
Tactically, it was a good move by the RINO as it got me—and others like me—to vote for him. Strategically, it will probably work against him and his fellow RINOs because Palin became a known conservative commodity.
It is my fervant hope that she will emerge as the conservative leader around which a new opposition party can be formed. IMO the RINOs will never hand over the GOP to conservatives. It has become simply an arm of the Demrat Party. In America today there is no longer an opposition party to the left.
And he is right and that is a good thing. Rush saved us, again!
It's an annoying feature of McCain's personality that he can't accept defeat on his own merits. It's always "somebody else's fault".
Recall his outburst in the 2000 primaries, after he'd lost South Carolina, blaming his loss on Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and other Christian conservative "agents of intolerance".
McCain simply cannot take losing an argument -- even if he's wrong!
In my opinion, McCain doesn't have what's referred to "presidential temperament". It's a character flaw that, had he become President, would've made for a dangerous world.
I sure wish Obama wasn't President. But I'm not unhappy that McCain won't be.
BHO frightens me. Having said that, let’s all be thankful that McCain lost. As bad off as Republicans are, if McCain would have won he would have completely destroyed the Republican party. The moment he was elected he would have put conservatives/conservatism out with the garbage. BTW, Rick Davis is no better than Bob Schrum. They are losers.
There is but one person to blame for John McCains loss and that person is John Mccain.
Then, his legacy ought to be the shame being defeated in the last Republican primary he participates in for reelection to the Senate because he was so out of touch with his constituents.
Apparently, everyone but McCain is responsible for his loss. A real man would speak up and accept the blame, but McCain never tries to squelch this stuff. If anything, he encourages it. What a p***y.
>>>How the hell did we nominate this guy?
Goading by the media.
As long as they declare for the Party. You have to register as a Republican in order to participate in the Republican caucus.
I realize Rush is not the mouthpiece of the GOP and in a sense, the party affiliation isn’t that important. But the problem is that the few conservatives we have are in the GOP, and it would be great if somebody with Rush’s clout could help promote those conservatives.
After support ting the Republicans for over forty years, I have decided to allow the Republican party to leave me for their new liberal voters. Not sure where I am going to yet, probably the conservative party. Regardless the pubbies are still the best bet for most elected positions because a political party must be built from the bottom up. Accordingly, you have provided me a vision of the future I did not want to contemplate. You are very mean (but probably accurate). I may need to reconsider.:D)
Hell, some of them are pretending as if nothing has happened and as if they are just like the rest of us.
“THE GOP does NOT have our best interests at heart and we have to take control of the local and state elections.”
>Ohio just made Mike Dewine’s kid the Ohio GOP chairman.
Words fail me. It is SO beyond time for torches and pitchforks.
Thanks for the ping!
How do we go about changing the primary’s rules?
Which states have ‘open’ primaries? Does anyone know?
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