Are you thinking of this one, perchance?
Posted on 06/29/2009 10:43:54 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Alaska's lipstick-wearing pit-bull is a "Little Shop of Horrors."
That's how one longtime friend and campaign trail companion of John McCain, the vanquished 2008 GOP presidential nominee, described veep nominee Sarah Palin.
In an expansive story in the August edition of Vanity Fair, a slew of senior members of McCain's campaign team told reporter Todd S. Purdum that they suffer a kind of survivor's guilt following the 2008 presidential election.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Oh really?
Democrats kill McCain's alternative stimulus plan (2009-02-05)
And lest we not forget, there would still have been a carbon tax (McCain was a principal author of the infamous McCain-Lieberman predecessor to the current carbon tax legislation) and a devastating amnesty for illegal aliens (again, McCain-Kennedy).
Suggesting that McCain would somehow have been better overall than Obama is well...nonsensical.
McCain is an idiot. A DC establishment elitist who needs to be sent into retirement yesterday.... Along with his irrelevant daughter.
And our politicians keep us that way by pandering to 50% of the electorate instead of leading. It's dangerous to be in front. You draw fire that way.
Sarah is experiencing that first hand. And showing extreme class in the way she handles it.
You’re ridiculous and a fool to pretend McCain would have been no better than Obama. You strip yourself of any credibility.
Don't confuse bad with boring. Bob Dole ran a boring campaign because Bob Dole was a boring candidate. But, Dole didn't really make any major mistakes - I can't really think of any minor mistakes he made. It was the GOP who made the mistake in nominating him in the first place. Dole enjoyed the same circumstance that McCain did. It's called "Weak Conservative Primary Challenger-itis".
McCain not only ran a campaign with a touch of boredom, he ran a tactically and strategically flawed campaign, almost from beginning to end.
His primary campaign was abysmal, and only succeeded because of the oddest confluence of circumstances that no one could have predicted; namely the media being so involved in propping him up, while completely ignoring or marginalizing more conservative candidates like Hunter or Thompson.
His general election campaign was at best amateurish, and at worst intentionally below par. It was mistake after mistake, and yet with just a few weeks to go, he was a threat. Well, someone (perhaps McCain himself) couldn't have that. So, he pulls the absolutely idiotic stunt of suspending his campaign. Oy vey! That was the end. That was the day he lost.
Which one would have been better is a moot point.
Both of them wholeheartedly supported the following nation-killing legislation...
Amnesty for illegal aliens
Carbon cap-and-tax
The financial services bailout
It doesn't really matter what their petty differences are, as both would have rammed through nation-killing legislation.
And, McCain did in fact support a stimulus focused on government spending, just to a lesser degree than the Obama-Pelosi-Reid plan. To suggest that, somehow, with him at the helm, there would have been no stimulus plan of any kind, as you did, is...well, I dunno, silly? It's quite obvious, based on the existence of McCain's "alternative" proposal, that there would have been a stimulus package regardless of the outcome of the election, assuming that only the Republican and the Democrat were capable of winning. The only difference is that the package would have been Democrat Lite, and conservatives would have been handed the blame, opening the door for more Socialism at a later date.
McCain's election would have spelled the end of conservatism, which is already publicly blamed for the failings of the Bush administration. And, it would have been the end of Sarah Palin.
How do you believe Sarah Palin performed as a candidate for vice president?
Palin did great. It wasn’t her fault that McCain wasn’t a strong leader of the ticket. — 59%
She did OK. She certainly wasn’t the reason why McCain lost. — 8%
She did poorly. McCain might have won if he made a smarter VP pick. — 33%
Hmmm... polarized. Just like everything else.
Polarized? I look at the totals as see 67% of the people who voted in the poll think she was either great or fine and only 33% think she did poorly. That’s a 2/3 majority .
Uh, who said you did? I was simply ridiculing the NY Daily News page.
Are you thinking of this one, perchance?
Can’t fight your own battles? Coward.
At least I can fight my own battles by arguing ideas and without instantly resorting to ad hominem attacks, unlike you.
I ping interested parties. Do you have a problem with that?
John McCain would have done greater damage to the GOP simply due to the fact that republicans wouldn’t be as willing to fight him.
“interested parties”!! Haha. The flying monkeys. What a gutless punk.
Because the Dems badly want power and are willing to overlook foibles of their fellow candidates if it assists them in reaching their goal. One hand washes the other type of thing.
I just thought that there would be more people who were neutral about her rather than the love/hate response. But you’re right; it’s not that bad.
I really think that she can take it. She is one tough cookie, and I hope that she goes all the way.
We have to fix ACORN before the next election. But that’s a 10th Amendment issue. The states have to clean up their election process.
It’s going to take years to undo the damage ... we’ll just take it one day at a time.
“abortion wouldn’t have found a safe harbor”
SCOTUS gave abortion it’s safe harbor. McCain wouldn’t have messed with that. All the little things various presidents quibble about, like Bush’s abstinence education and pledge not to have federal aid go to support abortion overseas are decidedly minor points.
“the military would have remained a priority”
Maybe, but Obama hasn’t Jimmy Carter-ed it yet. And even under the most hawkish of modern presidents, defense spending has been dwarfed by “social” programs.
“and Iran would have been slapped down the first day”
That would have been refreshing. But even if McCain had delivered a “tear down this wall” speech, it still would have been completely symbolic. It’s a president’s job to be a symbol, you might say, and you’d be correct. But I have a feeling the revolution would have failed anyway.
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