Posted on 02/16/2009 2:08:54 AM PST by Toki-C4P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKufy4D70WM&eurl
"The people making decisions on our economy are losing sight of the principles of capitalism."
"We eat, therefore we hunt."
Exit Question: What in the wide world of sports were the McCain campaign doing in "handling" her media appearances?! She is awesome!
Governor Palin is astonishingly succinct in her well-honed views and her mode of expression. Taken with her SOS speech and her recent ‘Press availabilty’ session, she grows by the day in stature and knowledge.
Governor Palin's website:
http://www.sarahpac.com/
The Zer0 count down website:
http://obamaclock.org/
1,434 days to go, and counting.
What in the wide world of sports were the McCain campaign doing in “handling” her media appearances?! She is awesome!
McCain ran a perfect Bob Dole campaign. He didn’t want to win, he just wanted to see his name in the headlines. When he saw the response to Palin, he pulled her off the campign trail and paraded her on the stage with him, so he could say he drew a crowd. (Which he wasn’t doing)
Sister Sarah is definitly one of of us. May she not be murdered by the RNC.
barbra ann
The RNC is washed up. They will work against Palin in any and every way they can. In my book they will attempt to run a RINO (quasi-republican) to oust Sarah.
My money goes directly to the Palin campaign.
Totally agree to this posting.
“McCain ran a perfect Bob Dole campaign. He didn’t want to win, he just wanted to see his name in the headlines. When he saw the response to Palin, he pulled her off the campaign trail and paraded her on the stage with him, so he could say he drew a crowd. (Which he wasn’t doing)”
. . yet, to this day, “our frend” McCain is still, IMO, in denial about all that. He threw Sarah to the WOLVES (”Katie” and “Charlie”) as fast as he could and allowed them to treat her with total CONTEMPT (butcher-editing and splicing her interviews together) in his usual naive way. JOHN, “KATIE” AND “CHARLIE” WILL FLATTER YOU, BUT THEY DO NOT LIKE YOU AND ARE NEVER, NEVER, NEVER GOING TO LIKE YOU! - (All people aren’t NICE, John.)
Despite being a ‘Bob Dole’ candidate McCain amassed almost 60m votes, almost 46% of the votes and if 4 states where he lost by less than 5% had gone to McCain he would have lost 292 EV to 246 EV. By the way he came within 2.1m of Bush’s vote total in 2004.
Sure I agree that McCain was not the ideal candidate, but let’s admit it during the last month of the campaign McCain did let Sarah go off on her own. Some might call it a desperation move but I really think it prevented McCain from slipping any further.
My assessment of the campaign, in retrospect is this. It’s actually quite simple. One week out from the GOP Convention McCain and Palin got a bump, were very competitive with Obama, and some pollsters had them in the lead.
Then from the middle of September to the end of September the financial meltdown had occurred and the greatest swing in poll numbers occurred where McCain-Palin by some estimations lost 8-10 points dropping them to as low as 39% support with Obama consistently above 50%.
What changed in October was that McCain-Palin (I would argue mainly because of Palin and Joe the Plumber) began to rise in the polls 1-2% a week to where some polls were showing them to be competitive in the battleground states.
Based on what I have been able to learn about election day here is what finally happened:
1)Obama was able to drag more blacks and young people in greater numbers than ever before
2)20% of so-called conservatives voted for Obama-this is the most overlooked stat in the election
3)Allowing for (2)millions of conservatives stayed home or voted 3rd party rather than voting for McCain who gave them McCain-Feingold, the Gang of 14, a comprehensive AMNESTY bill and for not being a real conservative (SP had little to with people in this category who did not vote)
4)McCain simply did not do all he could do to beat Obama; he was like a prizefighter knowing that ‘the new kid on the block’ had a weakness to a left hook but would not exploit this knowledge to win the game. McCain should have pounded Obama on his Socialist ‘credentials’ and associations and attempted to scare the ‘bejesus’ out of the American voter. That was really the only chance he had. He failed miserably. Instead he threw the ‘bipartisan’ crapola in the face of the GOP while Obama was ‘laughing all the way to the bank’. Sarah Palin did her best to pull McCain’s ass out of the fire, but she was hamstrung by McCain and his team until almost the very end, but by then it was too late.Obama’s vote had coalesced at just over 50% and never went below that in several polls.
the Gang of 14
In retrospect the gang of 14 can teach us something very beneficial. The power of a third (sub-)party, which is basically what it was. The third party held the swing vote and prevented the republicans from changing the filibuster rules back to the original filibuster concept.
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