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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John lost because he was a known commodity. His stock was worthless to begin with, and he had nobody to blame but himself for that.
You can’t sell yourself as the new shiny Conservative model, when everyone knows what’s underneath the primer.
You can’t team up with Soros, the gang of 14, the open borders brigade, the Gorebal worming crowd, and on and on, then expect folks who want a Conservative model to purchase what you’re selling.
John has always had someone to blame for his actions, all the way back to his college days. I think it’s time for John to face what his biggest problem is.
That is John McCain, what he is, and what he stands for.
He seems to have turned his back on Palin. He and his staff are looking for folks to blame for their failures. How about taking a big whiff of reality folks. You folks ran a lousy campaign. Your values are all screwed up. Your heads are up your...
John, John’s crew... GET LOST!
I also remember Rush bringing it up, once. After that, it dissappeared... not just frm Kos, but from everywhere. That was before it became SOP to snap a screenshot of stuff, and people relied on such Lefty-owned places as Google.
When Rush 1st suggestd Op.Chaos, he noted that the idea wasn't new, he was just copying the Leftists.
I suspect that in the end, though, once McSocialist was our nominee, no matter which Dem - The Cackle or if they picked the stench of BO - we'd lost.
McConcessionSpeech was going to throw the election regardless.
Look at it this way: the only way for him to keep his (self-proclaimed) constituency (i.e. MSM) happy was to keep undermining the Rs. As POTUS, he'd be the party's leader, and the 'phants are reluctant to stand-up to an "R" POTUS, even as he drives them off a cliff.
But, if a "D" is POTUS, he can make a great show of pushing his party to sell-out, so he becomes the beloved of the Socialist again.
That's why I say that no matter who the Dems put up, McSurrender would have thrown the election .
NB:
McCainannites, don't both w/the mock indignation at the revelation of his throwing the election. Once out of primaries he went limp and stopped campaigning, except to do stupid things. The polling frm the most accurate polls show he simply had to shut-up & he'd have won. That was after he picked Palin as VP. Every stupid thing he did barely hurt him... He was visibly starting to panic, (don't believe me go look at the news vids from that timeframe see his body language/expressions). He kept searching, though! And whn he found that 90%+ of citizens hated the bailout bill, he saw his chance! He knew he could stop the "Palin Momentum"!
The only thing worse that the campaign and the candidate, is the performance of these scoundrels after the election. Davis isn’t competent to run a statewide campaign, much less national. AS for McCain, he should never have survived a primary battle for re-election.
Rush was proved correct by stating "GOP moderates usually lose elections". Case in point! Did McCains pandering to the left help him any? Just like his opponent's namesake....ZERO!
Yuck, yuck, Hey rab, you were always right. I keeled for Palin, but I did back you up when they started the list garbage.
You do know that this ain’t a party thing anymore, this is us against them.
McCain has not yet begun to infuriate us. But I’m now back to my original reaction when it was apparent that it would be a McCain/Obama general election: McCain with a Dem Congress would have done as much harm as Obama with a Dem Congress.
It’s a close call, but I again believe we’d have been little better of with McCain, and if the party will fight Obama initiatives and really work toward 2010, we’ll be better off as it is than with McCain in the WH.
He and his campaign bunglers are beneath contempt...
But it they are allowed to write the history, it will be the ‘nativist’ and ‘xenophobes” who cost him the election, not the fact that he was one of the worst candidates ever, with one of the dumbest staffs, and with some of the dumbest positions ever proffered by a Republican.
I’ve said it before, McCain is actually a Democrat, but he squats in the Republican party because the Rats have been so anti-military since the ‘60s. And due to his own background and family history, McCain couldn’t stomach that.
He’s not even a RINO, he’s a Dem trespasser and squatter.
“There is but one person to blame for John McCains loss and that person is John Mccain.”
I agree. And on top of that is the fact that McCain does not constitutionally qualify to be President any more than Obama does. Neither one are “natural born” citizens which is a requirement to hold the office of President.
DON’T BELIEVE IT?? READ BELOW:
http://investigatingobama.blogspot.com/
“Lesser evil, until one gets reelected and then thinks that is a mandate to try to push through allot of crap that most of the people do not want. Then said lesser evil elevates to evil. “
Yeah, but at least it’s our evil and not their evil. All our puritanism did was cost us the following: The lives of many fetuses, nearly a trillion dollars worth in spending, American streets filled with radicalized and angry gangbangers, and likely, the fairness doctrine, and now, from the looks of it, we’re going to have openly gay soldiers on the battlefield. (Ever had to change in the same lockerroom as a gay person? Now our fine men and women are going to know the same feeling!) We have to realize at times that we’re not always going to get our dream candidates. And sometimes, our dream candidates are running on the other half of the ticket. If Juan McCain, god forbid won (Or if many of us got over our Latterdayphobia and voted for Rommney in the first place!), the inner cities wouldn’t be radicalized, we can still listen to Rush Limbaugh without the fear of him having to talk about Vermont style curry on one of his shows. And besides, it wasn’t like McCain was a spring chicken. He had at most 1 term left in him and he had Palin.
P.S. Don’t ever effing call me a moderate. I may be a bit granola, but the lefty tendencies end at the dinnerplate.
Nope, he's still here.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2166454/posts?page=79#79
Gee, really? You should have been honest in your dislike for Sarah instead of "blaming the other folks who though tina fey was Sarah on snl every Saturday" You are a liar.
To: rabscuttle385
Much of the reason why I stayed home on election day. Just hearing about Mccain/Palin makes me sick. Mccain limp, and Palin on SNL every week, Ill never understand that.
17 posted on Saturday, January 17, 2009 10:08:28 AM by Edizzl79 (you want my guns..come and get em...I dare ya....) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies | Report Abuse]
To: rbg81
Yes I do realize that she wasnt on SNL every week, but Im sure there were alot of people out there that didnt realize that, (LIAR (my insert)) thats why I said that. And yes I agree with you about Romney. I really dont think anyone could have won against Obama, hell even Hiliary lost!
57 posted on Saturday, January 17, 2009 10:19:07 AM by Edizzl79 (you want my guns..come and get em...I dare ya....)
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He/she WAS dumping on Sarah for being on snl every week. When he/she was called on it, he/she blamed it on “other people thinking tina was Sarah”.
He does that on his show every day.
He had the big rousing finish to his speech, he said that the mavericks were going to name names, and then I never heard him mention a single name, either at the debates or in press conferences.
Whenever he had an opportunity to name names, he punted. For example, during the second debate when the issue of Bill Ayers came up, McCain waived it off by simply saying, "I have no desire to talk about some old washed up terrorist."
It just went downhill from there.
-PJ
What an absolutely silly statement! Only if you're looking for "perfect". In this last election, I'd have been happy with "same ballpark" as the Conservative base. Indeed, almost all the other guys were better than McYellowStripe. The problem has been the open primaries combined with a "big tent" philosophy that allows our enemies in, not as Friends converted to Conservatism, but as Enemies bent on supplanting us in our own house.
Yes, it did seem a bit odd.
We didn’t. The Media did and will pick our next candidate too , if something isn’t done to stop cross party voting in the primaries.
That was before the election, but Snorty was a good bootlick. I don't think he's got a thing to fear. In all fairness, he licked McNutty's boots almost as well, trying to pull numbers for McC in the primaries.
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