Too bad that Team Romney found that that was the moment
to attack Gov. Palin and her handicapped child.
How Romney is that?
You are obsessed with this magical “Team Romney”. “that was the moment”? Your entire belief about how McCain lost, and who was attacking Palin, is myopic and mostly wrong.
It was shameful how Palin was attacked, and shameful that those attacks included people who should have been on our side.
You are wrong when you blame an entire class of people, and only those people, for these actions.
A vast majority of the attacks came from people other than former supporters of Romney.
A vast majority of people who supported Romney supported McCain/Palin. Some only after Palin was chosen.
In the end, Palin was not enough to save McCain. Whatever else she may be, she was not a miracle worker. McCain was, in essense, unelectable, and he showed that when he botched his response to the economic crisis.
It was that inability to handle the crisis that cost him his lead in the polls.
And in fact, most of us here at FR understand that the number one problem with McCain was that he sided with TARP, instead of opposing it.
Only a few people with their own agenda try to hide that truth by blaming other things instead.
And that effort hurts the conservative cause, because by trying to deny the real reasons McCain lost, you risk sending the wrong message.
TARP was the primary reason McCain lost; Palin’s biggest problem was McCain hiding her in a way that made it look like he didn’t trust her, failing to adequately defend her when the rediculous attacks first started, and then keeping her on a too-short leash.
McCain’s people trying to blame her for McCain’s failures also hurt her. Not as much as it hurt him though, because she was the only thing that could save him after his disastrous handling of the financial crisis, and instead his team marginalized her.