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Senior McCain aide: The GOP is a 'shrinking entity' [praises Zero, says Palin token conservative]
CNN - Political Ticker ^
| 2009-04-23
Posted on 04/23/2009 6:43:40 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
(CNN) John McCains general election campaign began as the strategic equivalent of throwing a football through a tire at 50 yards and was doomed weeks before Election Day, his former chief strategist said Thursday.
We were running a campaign under extra difficult circumstances the state of the Republican Party, the presidents unpopularity, the economy a lot of issues that were not John McCains fault, but were John McCains problem in this race, Schmidt told an audience at the University of Delaware, according to Politico. When Lehman Brothers collapsed in the fall I knew pretty much right away that
from an electoral strategy perspective, the campaign was finished.
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Comment #61 Removed by Moderator
To: RJL
The Republicans were happy to alienate their voting base to please Hispanics.70% of whom were only too happy to vote for the dims.
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posted on
04/23/2009 7:49:32 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: rabscuttle385
Juan McQueeg would never have received my vote without Sarah.
63
posted on
04/23/2009 7:54:33 PM PDT
by
DTogo
(Time to bring back the Sons of Liberty.)
To: grey_whiskers
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posted on
04/23/2009 7:55:27 PM PDT
by
Wuli
To: Wuli
Something *always* gets lost in translation.
I used an English to Latin translator for "I bend over therefore I lose."
Cheers!
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posted on
04/23/2009 8:17:26 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: rabscuttle385
Michael Steele will repudiate this and reassert the conservatism of the GOP tomorrow. /s
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posted on
04/23/2009 8:43:40 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Cloward-Piven Strategy)
To: rabscuttle385
The reason the GOP is shriveling away is bozos like McCain and his daughter (and his clown staff.)
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posted on
04/23/2009 8:58:20 PM PDT
by
TBP
To: rabscuttle385
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posted on
04/23/2009 9:21:05 PM PDT
by
RRismyhero
(Mr. Obama - You can keep your change.)
To: Charles Martel
Tell us that one, Schmidt. They really don't know who their voters are, do they?
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posted on
04/23/2009 9:36:06 PM PDT
by
okie01
(THE MAItNSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
To: rabscuttle385
Daughter seems to be learning well from Daddy.
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posted on
04/23/2009 10:46:18 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: cripplecreek
All I know is that the GOP is growing increasingly hostile toward conservatives and cant realistically think theyll win in future elections. One bit of inside information revealed here that contradicts some of your point is that the McCain organization didn't dare to nominate a pro-choice VP in front of a convention of McCain delegates. That is, even after the strongest conservatives were screened out, because they were not strong McCain supporters, which is where the delegates came from, the convention would not have tolerated nominating a Veep to McCain's left, willing to have an open convention rebellion to prevent it. That says good things about Republican grassroots.
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posted on
04/23/2009 11:59:25 PM PDT
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
To: rabscuttle385; airborne; wagglebee; TAdams8591; Fiddlstix; Ol' Sparky; Zechariah_8_13; BnBlFlag; ...
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posted on
04/24/2009 3:24:37 AM PDT
by
DirtyHarryY2K
(The Tree of Liberty is long overdue for its natural manure)
To: rabscuttle385
The GOP is a shrinking entity?
No wonder: why bother doing Dem-lite when you can go for the gusto and have the real thing: Barry S.
/s
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posted on
04/24/2009 3:43:37 AM PDT
by
markomalley
(Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
To: markomalley
All this talk about shrinking entities has left me feeling inadequate!
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posted on
04/24/2009 4:31:03 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: rabscuttle385
1. The GOP does not think beyond the next election.
2. While it is good at working with the terrain it has been given it does not shape the political terrain(only the Dem's do that).
3. it does not do anything to improve its access to media. (it should be lining up its contributors and its bankers to make purchases of media and try to shape a new media its way. (only the Dem's do that)
4.The GOP is only responsive to the people who pay the bill and is unresponsive to the average person who votes for them. Because it is unresponsive it has Conservatives blaming the moderates and calling them Rino’s and the moderates blaming Conservatives and leaving to vote Dem. They both need to blame the country clubbers who obviously believe in nothing except their own tax cuts.
5.They need to show imagination and creativity.
6. they need to reinvent themselves.
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posted on
04/24/2009 4:46:52 AM PDT
by
bilhosty
(Tax payers for change)
To: cripplecreek
Im thinking there has been some serious Soros infiltration of the GOP and it started with McQueeg and his main street republicans.
It's not infiltrated, it's completely infested. Just look at Steele.
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posted on
04/24/2009 11:18:07 AM PDT
by
Zechariah_8_13
("If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else." - J. G. Machen)
To: repentant_pundit
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posted on
04/28/2009 9:19:45 AM PDT
by
repentant_pundit
(Fighting recession by spending trillions is like fighting forest fires with an AK-47)
To: rabscuttle385
It's comments like this that put Steve Schmidt on my FaceBook "Five people I'd like to punch in the face."
With friends like this, who needs enemies?
Memo to Republican candidates--can you at least *try* to hire conservative campaign managers? Or, if not conservatives, at least not flaming liberal losers like Schmidt?
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posted on
04/28/2009 9:28:27 AM PDT
by
Antoninus
(Now accepting apologies from repentant Mittens.)
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