[rabscuttle385]

The Juan McCain Truth File. "I have great respect for Al Gore." —John McCain, October 2, 2008 FR Keywords: mccaintruthfile, mcqueeg, mcbama Please tag all relevant threads with the aforementioned keywords. This can be a very high-volume ping list at times. To join the ping list: FReepmail rabscuttle385 with the subject line add  mccaintruthfile. (Stop getting pings by sending the subject line drop mccaintruthfile.)   Republican Commissar’s Warning: By joining this ping list, you may be subjected to the delusional rants and ramblings of McCainiacs, of "moderate" Republicans, of pragmatic conservatives resigned to voting for the lesser of two Democrats, and of countless RNC shills who simply want to meet a new overlord.

[Leisler]

It wasn’t McCain, it wasn’t him, it wasn’t RINOism, it was us.

Yeah. Right.

[nobama08]

His campaign was doomed when he was nominated. If it hadn’t been for Palin, it would have been a landslide.

[Mr. Mojo]

Senior McCain aide: The GOP is a 'shrinking entity'

That's because the party is thoroughly infested with RINOs like your boss.

[EyeGuy]

Steve Schmidt emerges more and more every day as a major self-serving, cynical political operative asswipe.

[Frantzie]

Schmidt is a moron and a quitter. When Lehman collapsed...he knew it was over? This guy would go broke running a brewery in the desert with thousands of thirsty oil workers. What a moron.

[cripplecreek]

I’m thinking there has been some serious Soros infiltration of the GOP and it started with McQueeg and his main street republicans.

[Loyal Buckeye]

This guy is an idiot. No wonder McCain lost.

[redk]

So I take it Schmidt, like Nicole Wallace can't get any work in politics. People who build their house on sand....

[Charles Martel]

“We were running a campaign under extra difficult circumstances — the state of the Republican Party, the president’s unpopularity, the economy — a lot of issues that were not John McCain’s fault, but were John McCain’s problem in this race,” Schmidt told an audience...

Sure. Blame everything and everybody but the lame-o candidate. Tell us another bedtime story, Schmidt. Ooh, I know - how about the one where the tanned John McCain - always ready with an easy, reassuring smile (complete with Lyle Waggoner sparkle) - was the darling of the grassroots Republicans who donated and donated until their pockets were practically empty (until that Sarah Palin came along and killed all the enthusiasm). Tell us that one, Schmidt.

[ScottinVA]

McCain, please go away and take your attention-starved daughter with you.

[RRismyhero]

Can the AZ freepers PLEASE find a true Republican to run against this man? He needs to GO and take Megan with him.

[Marysecretary]

With aides like that, McCain didn’t need any enemies. Cheez.

[ken21]

mccain’s an ass.

he should retire and let new blood into the senate.

[KarenMarie]

“Senior McCain aide: The GOP is a ‘shrinking entity’...”

Well, according to the McCain definition of GOP... I suppose it is.

but GOP /= Conservative and we are just beginning to fight.

[Fred]

Oh yeah, Everyone else is to blame for Juanito's historically gigantic arse whipping...

His lamo campaign dudes should never work on any race ever again, unless it is for Dims.

[Wuli]

“John McCain’s 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”

When Obama went around the battleground states, especially in places like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and even in California, proposing to tax and spend our way out of our problems, while blaming it all on Bush, McCain had no come-backs, on the economy - or to put it correctly, McCain offered no comebacks to Obama on the economy; when he could have said: “My opponent is offering for the government to tax and spend us out of the current problems. So, ask your self, here in xxxxxxxxxx (Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and yes even California), hows that been working for you recently??”

Instead McCain's only economic ploy was his same “bash the greedy” populist sentiments, which impressed no one.

McCain lost, because he was never expected or entitled to win - he was a nice guy, a war hero, a “maverick” populist, without a plan, an agenda or an idea of his own, beyond the insipid celebration of who he is. He insulted the GOP base, for years, tried to play nice with conservatives in the short period leading to the primaries, went to the largest conservative PAC gathering and told them, in the politest of terms, he respectfully was not one of them; built no major grass-roots get out the vote organization (from what), picked Palin to account for his own conservative weakness, and then, and now blames her for not making up for all his deficits. Ego.; Ego; Ego.

[Iron Munro]

Senior McCain aide: The GOP Is A 'Shrinking Entity'

Let's fix that title:

Senior McCain aide: The GOP Is A 'Shrinking Entity' Thanks To RINOs Like John McCain

[campaignPete R-CT]

I am waiting for someone to say:

“We don’t need any advice from the losers!”

[chiefqc]

And McCain hung her out to dry when he got a better deal from the empty suit.